Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 99, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 March 1910 — GEN. BELL HURT; WOMAN DEAD [ARTICLE]

GEN. BELL HURT; WOMAN DEAD

Automobile Collides with a Trolley Car Near Washington. Major General J. Franklin Bell, chiet of staff of the army, was badly but not dangerously injured, and Mrs. Herbert J, Slocum, wife of Major Slocum ot the Seventh cavalry, was almost in* stantly killed in a collision of their automobile with a trolley car on the Tenallytown road in the northwest outskirts of Washington. General Bell had one rib broken, suf. sered a painful scalp wound and Severn bruises. The chauffeur was uninjured. Mrs. Slocum lived only a few moments. Her husband is attached to the headquarters of the department ot the east at Governor’s Island, New York.