The Portland daily press., 1899-05-31

The one mile handical open race at the
baseball grounds WAS married by serious
accident late yesterda. afternoon. 1t was
near the close of the race, and the field OF
racers were on tn, back stretch at the
farthest point from the grand stand.
They were we'll punched, when suddenly
one of the riders was seen to fall, coming
down with his wheel in the midst of the
bunch. Az he lay upon his back, en-
tangled in his wheel, rider Immediate
ly behind, going at full speed and unable
to- turn out, ran his wheel as 1t seemed
over the neck of the prostrAte rider. The
In jured man was seen to throw up his
right arm, and then drop 1t helplessly
and lie still.
The accident looked very serious, and
at once there was a rush of spectators and
others from the region of the grand stand
across to the back stretch. The foremost
gathered about him, and after a short ex :
animation took him on their shoulders
and bore him towards the gate. Near the
gate they laid him on blanket, and 1t
was seen that the injured man was
George Il. Pike of Auburn. Blood was
streaming from q out over his forehead,
and he lay unconscious.
/. Fortunately there was no lack of medi-
cal assurance DR.. Way reached him very
soon, and he was reinforced by Drs.
Cammett and Hanson, who were also in
the audience. They soon brought him to.
and made. him Sufficiently oomfortab BILE
30, Ha Wov took hi N, N
charge and with the assistance of friends
tho Young man was laid on tho back
seat of car, and brought to DR.. Way g
office.
There 1t was found that there was a
large cash in his head, and that the outer
table of his skull had suffered q slight
fracture. After his wounds were attended
to and he was dressed he felt very we'll,
and DIR. Way thought no serious results
would follow.
His friends of the Twin City Cycle club
took him home with them on the II
O'Clock train last night.
At the dinner of the wheelm IN at Riv-
erton during the evening a collection of
$35 was made for present to young Pike.
1t was said that one of the racers ran
into Pike, causing him to fall; but this
does not seem to be entirely certain.
There were one or two other falls on the
back stretch during the afternoon, In Ii
eating that the track was bad.
When the accident occurred the rush of
spectators was directly across the racing
track, on which the wheelmen were fin
ishing the race. This produced much
danger and Generalization. A small boy
collided with Gustave Peterson, the Port
land rider. and Peterson was thrown so
heavily that he was picked up and helped
from the field by two companions. He
was not badly hurt, however. The small
boy was not hurt; but 1t seemed for a
moment that he was in danger. An irnte
citizen seized him, stood him up before
the crowd, and proceeded to portray the
enormity of his offense in getting in the
way of the riders. "Here are men killed,
for all we know" said the irate citizen.
"and you have done it ALL" The small
boy, whose face was honest and inoffen.
slve, disclaimed criminal motives and
vanished into the crowd as soon as the
irate citizens eye wandered in another
direction.
There were many narrow escapes when
the crowd ran across the racing track,
the small boys being especially reckless.