Evening star., 1953-01-21
Parade Spectator
And Horseman Die
During Celebration

Two men, one a spectator and
the other a parade horseman,
we're listed today as the only
fatalities of yesterdays inaugural
parade.
The Inaugural Medical Aid
Committee, in incomplete re-
ports, added that about 200 per-
sons had collapsed from illness
or fatigue along the parade route.
Ambulances transported approxi-
mately IS persons to hospitals
or--aid stations.
Vincent Bovello. Sc, of 1912
Fortieth street NV, died at 7
PM in Emergency Hospital, ap-
-parently of a heart attack. The
Treasury Department employe
collapsed about noon just as the
new President was taking his
oath. He had been watching the
parade from a seat on Fifteenth
street beside the Treasury De-
partment.
Police reported that a member
of the colorful Long Beach Cali
formal mounted posse died in
his train berth in Pullman City,
Fourteenth and D streets S.W.,
early today. He was identified
as Lee H. Farmer. 50. Police
said Mr.. Farmer, who rode in
the front line of the posse, had
died of a heart attack.
800 Medical Aides at Work.
Four years ago there were 225
casualties, 106 of them ambu-
lance cases and one a fatality.
A staff Of about 800 medical
workers handled the first aid
operation in 16 stations, spotted
at two-block intervals along the
parade route. One of these was
a mobile unit. which stayed at
the assembly point until the last
unit left, and then sped to the
dispersal point two miles away.
Twelve ambulances from the
armed services and Red Cross
likewise were located strategi-
cally. All were in radio COM
munication with the control
center at 1400 Pennsylvania ave-
nue. NV. Direct telephone lines
tied in the center with the aid
stations.
Painting proved to be the
most widespread ailment, as it
usually is during parades. One
case was listed as hysteria, sew
eral we're exhaustion, and one
man suffered head injury when
some one stepped on a fire
escape, causing the ladder to
descend on him.
One marcher, a man, col
lapsed. Revived. he refused fur
ther treatment and hurried to
rejoin his comrades. He wouldn't
even leave his name with first
aid workers.
Marine MP Treated.
A man listed as a Marine MP,
received treatment after COM
planning Of a stiff muscle" A
woman was carried on the lists
as suffering from grippe.
While the medical committee,
headed by Mrs. Montgomery
Blair. still was working on it's
final and complete casualty re-
port today, these persons were
listed as among the stricken OF
injured who were taken by am
bulance either to hospitals or
aid stations:
Mary Myers, 400 F street NV;
r. G. Backer. no address given;
Leonard Earnshaw, no address
given; James Dowd, 1923 Sheri-
dan street NV; Josephine Ryan,
Mahanoy City, Pa; Mrs. Will
liam Snyder, 2720 Wisconsin
avenue NV.
Ollie Bowman. 897 Fifty-sec-
ond street NE: Mrs. William
Deal, Baltimore; Mrs. Clara
Schof1eld, 1000 Chillum road.
Chillum: Eva Knight. 2015 Fif-
teenth street NV; Y. B. Faux
ner, 3618 Kemper road, Arling-
ton; Emma Shirk. Tyrone, Pa;
Lola Sullivan, 1112 Virginia ave-
nue. S.W.; Herbert Dotson, An
napolis; George Holland, 1901
Cameron street, Alexandria.
Mary Degan. Baltimore; Mat
tie B. Harris, no address given;
Ralph Aten. Ontario Apart
ments; Catherine Ingraham,
Steelton, Pa; Mrs. Ruth Smith,
17O9 Monroe street NE; Mrs.