Six Injured
In Five D. C.
Accidents

    Six persons were injured, several severely, in five Washington traffic accidents yesterday.
    Miss Claudine Wannamaker, 31, of 250 Farragut street northwest, and Miss Elma Edson, 58, of 3922 Thirteenth street northwest, clerks at the War College, were hurt when their car collided with an automobile driven by James Worthy, colored, 31, of Riverdale, Md., at Sixth and C streets northwest.
    At Emergency Hospital Miss Wannamaker was treated for head and arm lacerations, and Miss Edson for a possible collarbone fracture. Worthy was charged with having a defective handbrake on his car.
    Thomas Harlow, 69, of 1230 Rhode Island avenue northeast, suffered a head injury when struck by an automobile as he stepped from a street car at Thirteenth and Rhode Island avenue northeast. He was taken to Sibley Hospital.
    Ten-year-old Pearl Wyncoop, of 1040 North Hudson street, Arlington, suffered severe lacerations of the thigh and skull and a possible skull fracture when her bicycle was struck by an automobile near her home. She was taken to Georgetown Hospital.
    In another bicycle accident Robert Brewer, 15, of 4520 Fourth street northwest suffered a possible arm fracture when struck by an automobile as he entered Buchanan street northwest from an alley near Fourth street. Charles Hall, 5, of 1417 Columbia street northwest, was taken to Children's Hospital with a broken leg after he was struck by a bicycle near his home.

Source:

Unknown, "Six Injured In Five D. C. Accidents," Washington Post, Washington, D.C., Thursday, 27 June, 1940, p. 17.