COD: skull fracture.
JOSEPH JOHNSTON DIES IN AUTOMOBILE CRASH - Washington Young Man Victim of Motoring Accident Near Streator, Ill.
Hurled through the windshield of the machine and dashed into a bank at the side of the roadway, Joseph Johnston, twenty-one years old, son of Walter A. Johnston, 1414 Euclid street northwest, was instantly killed near Streator, Ill., yesterday afternoon, when the automobile, a new one, driven bv his fiancee, Miss Lucille Dailey, became unmanageable on a sharp curve of the road. Others in the machine at the time of the accident were Miss Dailey's parents, State Senator and Mrs. John Dailey of Chicago, and Hugh Wilson, a Chicago attorney. Senator Dailey, according to telegraphic reports, received a severely wrenched back, the other occupants of the machine receiving only minor injuries.
Walter A. Johnston, the young man's father, and Mrs. Johnston, his step-mother, were in Atlantic City on a short vacation, and were informed yesterday afternoon by Julian Johnston, another son, of the fatality. They returned to Washington late last night. Mr. Johnston is to go to Chicago this evening to accompany the body of his son back to Washington for interment.
Driving a New Machine.
According to telegrams received here, young Johnston, with the others of the party, was driving from Chicago to Streator in a machine just bought by Senator Dailey. Miss Dailey, who is nineteen years old, was driving, Mr. Johnston occupying the seat beside her. At a point on the road a few miles from Streator, on a sharp curve where the road led between high banks, something went wrong with the steering gear.
The machine, which was running at fairly high speed, crashed into the embankment and then overturned. In the crash young Johnston was thrown through the windshield and against the bank. So far as has been learned, death was practically instantaneous.
Joseph Johnston was a student at Central and McKinley Manual Training High schools, afterward studying law for two years at Georgetown University and then at the National University Law School, from which he was graduated last spring. He was twenty-one years old October 12, and is survived by bis father, stepmother, one sister, Miss Annella Johnston, and three brothers, Walter Johnston of Minneapolis, and Julian and Laurence Johnston of this city.
[Evening Star, October 23, 1915, p. 5.]
JOSEPH JOHNSTON DIES IN AUTOMOBILE CRASH - Washington Young Man Victim of Motoring Accident Near Streator, Ill.
Hurled through the windshield of the machine and dashed into a bank at the side of the roadway, Joseph Johnston, twenty-one years old, son of Walter A. Johnston, 1414 Euclid street northwest, was instantly killed near Streator, Ill., yesterday afternoon, when the automobile, a new one, driven bv his fiancee, Miss Lucille Dailey, became unmanageable on a sharp curve of the road. Others in the machine at the time of the accident were Miss Dailey's parents, State Senator and Mrs. John Dailey of Chicago, and Hugh Wilson, a Chicago attorney. Senator Dailey, according to telegraphic reports, received a severely wrenched back, the other occupants of the machine receiving only minor injuries.
Walter A. Johnston, the young man's father, and Mrs. Johnston, his step-mother, were in Atlantic City on a short vacation, and were informed yesterday afternoon by Julian Johnston, another son, of the fatality. They returned to Washington late last night. Mr. Johnston is to go to Chicago this evening to accompany the body of his son back to Washington for interment.
Driving a New Machine.
According to telegrams received here, young Johnston, with the others of the party, was driving from Chicago to Streator in a machine just bought by Senator Dailey. Miss Dailey, who is nineteen years old, was driving, Mr. Johnston occupying the seat beside her. At a point on the road a few miles from Streator, on a sharp curve where the road led between high banks, something went wrong with the steering gear.
The machine, which was running at fairly high speed, crashed into the embankment and then overturned. In the crash young Johnston was thrown through the windshield and against the bank. So far as has been learned, death was practically instantaneous.
Joseph Johnston was a student at Central and McKinley Manual Training High schools, afterward studying law for two years at Georgetown University and then at the National University Law School, from which he was graduated last spring. He was twenty-one years old October 12, and is survived by bis father, stepmother, one sister, Miss Annella Johnston, and three brothers, Walter Johnston of Minneapolis, and Julian and Laurence Johnston of this city.
[Evening Star, October 23, 1915, p. 5.]
COD: skull fracture.
JOSEPH JOHNSTON DIES IN AUTOMOBILE CRASH - Washington Young Man Victim of Motoring Accident Near Streator, Ill.
Hurled through the windshield of the machine and dashed into a bank at the side of the roadway, Joseph Johnston, twenty-one years old, son of Walter A. Johnston, 1414 Euclid street northwest, was instantly killed near Streator, Ill., yesterday afternoon, when the automobile, a new one, driven bv his fiancee, Miss Lucille Dailey, became unmanageable on a sharp curve of the road. Others in the machine at the time of the accident were Miss Dailey's parents, State Senator and Mrs. John Dailey of Chicago, and Hugh Wilson, a Chicago attorney. Senator Dailey, according to telegraphic reports, received a severely wrenched back, the other occupants of the machine receiving only minor injuries.
Walter A. Johnston, the young man's father, and Mrs. Johnston, his step-mother, were in Atlantic City on a short vacation, and were informed yesterday afternoon by Julian Johnston, another son, of the fatality. They returned to Washington late last night. Mr. Johnston is to go to Chicago this evening to accompany the body of his son back to Washington for interment.
Driving a New Machine.
According to telegrams received here, young Johnston, with the others of the party, was driving from Chicago to Streator in a machine just bought by Senator Dailey. Miss Dailey, who is nineteen years old, was driving, Mr. Johnston occupying the seat beside her. At a point on the road a few miles from Streator, on a sharp curve where the road led between high banks, something went wrong with the steering gear.
The machine, which was running at fairly high speed, crashed into the embankment and then overturned. In the crash young Johnston was thrown through the windshield and against the bank. So far as has been learned, death was practically instantaneous.
Joseph Johnston was a student at Central and McKinley Manual Training High schools, afterward studying law for two years at Georgetown University and then at the National University Law School, from which he was graduated last spring. He was twenty-one years old October 12, and is survived by bis father, stepmother, one sister, Miss Annella Johnston, and three brothers, Walter Johnston of Minneapolis, and Julian and Laurence Johnston of this city.
[Evening Star, October 23, 1915, p. 5.]
JOSEPH JOHNSTON DIES IN AUTOMOBILE CRASH - Washington Young Man Victim of Motoring Accident Near Streator, Ill.
Hurled through the windshield of the machine and dashed into a bank at the side of the roadway, Joseph Johnston, twenty-one years old, son of Walter A. Johnston, 1414 Euclid street northwest, was instantly killed near Streator, Ill., yesterday afternoon, when the automobile, a new one, driven bv his fiancee, Miss Lucille Dailey, became unmanageable on a sharp curve of the road. Others in the machine at the time of the accident were Miss Dailey's parents, State Senator and Mrs. John Dailey of Chicago, and Hugh Wilson, a Chicago attorney. Senator Dailey, according to telegraphic reports, received a severely wrenched back, the other occupants of the machine receiving only minor injuries.
Walter A. Johnston, the young man's father, and Mrs. Johnston, his step-mother, were in Atlantic City on a short vacation, and were informed yesterday afternoon by Julian Johnston, another son, of the fatality. They returned to Washington late last night. Mr. Johnston is to go to Chicago this evening to accompany the body of his son back to Washington for interment.
Driving a New Machine.
According to telegrams received here, young Johnston, with the others of the party, was driving from Chicago to Streator in a machine just bought by Senator Dailey. Miss Dailey, who is nineteen years old, was driving, Mr. Johnston occupying the seat beside her. At a point on the road a few miles from Streator, on a sharp curve where the road led between high banks, something went wrong with the steering gear.
The machine, which was running at fairly high speed, crashed into the embankment and then overturned. In the crash young Johnston was thrown through the windshield and against the bank. So far as has been learned, death was practically instantaneous.
Joseph Johnston was a student at Central and McKinley Manual Training High schools, afterward studying law for two years at Georgetown University and then at the National University Law School, from which he was graduated last spring. He was twenty-one years old October 12, and is survived by bis father, stepmother, one sister, Miss Annella Johnston, and three brothers, Walter Johnston of Minneapolis, and Julian and Laurence Johnston of this city.
[Evening Star, October 23, 1915, p. 5.]
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