Evening Star Newspaper, April 22, 1926, Page 7

THREEHURTBADLY | INAUTOACGOENTS Four-Year-0ld Son of Repre- sentative Underwood Includ- ed Among Victims. Three persons were severely in ‘jured and a number received minor hurts in traffic accidents yesterday and last night. E Four-yearold Max L. Underwood son of Representative Mell G. Under wood of Oh ding at 3415 Oak wood Terrace, Wi verely injured | by an automobile driven usie T. Curtis, 1613 Harvard v Newton str vesterday Police reported behind nt of Mrs. Curtis 1g so suddenly she w: unable to stop in time to prevent the accident. Taken to Emergency. 5. Curtis took the b Hospital, where it may have sustained a slight fracture of the skull. Ilis condition this morn- ing, however, was reported improv Two_Sibley Hospital nurses, Mi ¥ old, and Mi er , the same age, d last night_when the bile of Theodore W teenth street northe were sen; overturned in Soldiers’ Home grounds. Miss Baker was rendered unconscious, while her companion sustained an injury to her knee. They were taken to Sibley Hospital. ard Belfield, colored, 16 New Hampshire in which they years avenue, | everely injured vesterday when |3 was knocked down by the auto- mobile of Dorothy Minster, 1843 Ontario place, on Seventeeth between ¢ He treated at 1 for an injury to vears old, 608 escaped in- ternoon when between Tenth southwest, by Andrew was charged by to have a Johnson lice with failure permit. kes of a b in which Mrs. Carrie Handy, 53 . 1611 Connec- ticut avenue, was u passenger, be- came released last night while the vehicle was parked in front of 1443 Belmont street and drifted against an autombile parked a short distance aw Mrs. Handy, severely shocked, was taken home, Others injured in traffic were Charles Hillegeist, teenth street; colored, 2021 G street 420 E nth - street Robert Coleman, 4112 Fourth street. accidents 1119 Seven- Jules Tretrick, v northeas and Mother’s Job Never Ends. 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