Waterbury Democrat., 1900-12-13
BEHIND THE RECORDS.
The Six-Day Racers Set Too Fast q
 Pace in the Early Hours.

1 Crowded from cellar to raftcrS last night, Madison Square Garden was a scene of wild excitement q few min utes after 2 o'clock, when the worst Smash-up of the great six days bicycle race occurred. Six men were thrown 1 at the TWenty-SiXth street turn Of the track on the Madison avenue end. and several of them were seriously injured. | Turville was knocked unconscious. Aronson was badly hurt about the body and his eye was lacerated. The { two Frcnchmen. GougOltZ and Simar, and Waller and Fisher, all were pitched over their wheels and suffered for d time from their shaking up and 1 from shock.
 There were 12,OO0 or more spccta- tors in the Garden at the time. From an easy. leisure1y. rolling gait, the rid CTS bent over their handlebars and drove along at a swift pace ill anti,i l patton of q squirt while KaSer and Ky ser were changing. Simar was about to relieve Gougoltz and was almost be- | hind them. with Mcfarland on the ill side. They came down one of the | stretches punched, With the great crowd on it's feet cheering the leaders.
 Suddenly the FrenCnmpn. who were alternating, came together OH the turn, and with @r1t crash went down. Me Earland shot thrOu~h like d flash. but Waller went driving into the wreck. Turville WAS higher up. and his mu- chine. moving with great speed, passed over the legs of one of the men. and then stuck, like q bucking hroncho. TurVille was thrown clear over the rail into q box. where he lay bleeding and unconscious. Fisher could not cheek his headWay and went down with the others.
 NfrEnr'o>>7 ~,>,'rfn1. as did those who had escaped the carnage. and then gained lap after lap on the fallen rid CTS. But it WAS all for nHu@ht. The laps were returned tu the men who had been ill thr accident because no body seemed to ljc responsible Fisher. however lost a lpgitiIuato lap in addi- tion to tEOsr that were returned to him.
 TurNillc was carried tn his tent. Where thr surgeon in ciiHrSr made :!n examination. He foI.uh that TuiTilG had sustained bad contliSion> of tEr right thigh and multiple bruises of the body He was suffering also from shock. Aronson had a laceratcd ryc and face and contUsonS of the back
 which kept him off tho track for Il
 time. Fisher was down 0u his back in his place with general rOntuSiOu% ana shock. The Frcnchmen were Shuk- ell up only.
 Changes in the positions of the li,i- CTS are not frequent, and last midnight the two leading American teams were
 fGH" miles beyond the 4tN mile mark
 Tn" Elkps anG Mcfarland. Pierce and
 McEnchorn pairs arc not more than the distance apart that separated thCm
 when the pistol sent them away to- gethor at five minutes after midnight Sunday night. Together the intlivid- uals Of these two teams have circlcd the oval within touching distance of each other for more than thousand
 miles. and in the other four hundred
 they have not been more than q few yards apart
 Only eight teams now are left in the contest. Aucoutrier, after being , dragged out 10 the track Tuesday night ! by Muller. his partner. was compelled , to give up. Muller was heartbrokcn, and declared he would finish the ra,o himself: but as the rules forbade that , Muller had to abandon the contest He says he never will forgive -tucOutricr , for bringing disgrace on him. Exhibitions relieved the monotony l in the afternoon and evening. Coop ! CT went q mile. paced by a gasoline tandem. in :Jt :;-I while Michael fol- lowed the same machine fer five miles;
 to the time of H::33 2-:1. Major Uaylu, who holds the championship Sprint
 record of 1900 also appeared on the
 track
 A trainer who has been more or less
 among all the men said that Fixes k
 III the best shape of the men on the.
 track. principally due to his having
 been ill better condition when he D,r-
 gan. Mcfarland. tlls man said. is
 suffering from q muscular strain of
 the heel. and his future riding depends , on this. Elkes relieved Mcfarland at
 Ihf.l- T .,,I : About this time the bunch caught Ry-
 ser mapping and got half q lap on him.
 but by q fine uphill squirt he got thcm I again, amid tremendous applause Soon after this Waller started q
 sprint. and GuuEoltH during the squirt
 got ill fine jump. which left him hair
 q lap ahead of the others. NrFurlunu took the lead in cutting him down and : he dragged them all LID to t;oum0I,z'> :; : wheel. ltlHeS sat al d table eating when he noticed the Spurt. and he got on his wheel To relieve Mcfarland. The Californian told him to stay off q while. longer. as hc was all right. f!lkr>S slowed down and dism0lntcd to con tinuc his dinner.
 The enthusiasm during the spurt was at fever heat. and the band which tried to play could not be heard more than few feet away. People stood . on chairs in their excitement and only , got down when Mcfarland had caught
 'iou%GltH. Ii was not long after. this
 rIat the %fpatcst spill of the week took place. with the result that some or thy
 men later may be compelled to with : draw because of their injuries. irun. 9 son, late at night, was in bad coudi- ) tlnn and might not Be able to finish ;, Fisher returned to the track. after = m hour and q half rest. relic wing Fred l Fflck. and he went on after the fast 1 ores in good style, appearing fresh. : II" received a loud WpI"0m from the Q spectators At the Seycnty-frSt iiOur - tine men were ten miles and three laps - behind tine record of last year. $ Jimmy Michael rode q fivc-.nilC cxhi- | hition behind q mot0" machine in r 9:--;i "4-3. the first mile in the fast time - of 1:i3 IL. "Bcbhy" Walthom a!i,i | Floyd Nr"Es, two s!N-da% men forccii Q out Of the race. rode tIyc-nlilp pIr- : suit race. which WHl;hour ended in
 six and q half laps by catching Krc5s
 in i 26 -t-1
 Walter Smith of the KirGs county , Whceimcn and John King of NpwAr', in f,-, :J,>,