The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-05-25
AUTO RACE ONE OF DEATH
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I
 suffered breakdowns and having lost
 three hours they decided that it was
 useless to continue. MT. Vanderbilt
 and Baron De Forest returned to the Hotel Ritz at Il o'clock this morning. They laughed and made light of their
 withdrawal. Foxhall Keene, Tod Sloan and W. J. Dannat, the American
 artist, did not appear at the starting 1 line this morning when their turn was reached and consequently did not take 1 part in the race. c. Gray-Dinsmore is the only American left in.
 ! Versailles passed a night of wild ex- citement. It is estimated that hun
 dred thousand persons crowded into
 the little town to witness the start of the race. Sildiers with fixed bayonets lined the track for some distance from | Versailles. A bomb was exploded at 3:55 a. m. as signal to get ready, and 1 immediately Charles Jarrott's car drew l into place. Another bomb was fired at quarter to four for the start and then 1 the enormous machine shot forward
 amid the shouts of the thousands of 1 spectators. The other cars followed in [ NOlAh SdGIC6SlOIl bS1Gls L1lE sole female competitor in last years Paris-Berlin race, was again the nOly woman to participate in the present l contest Her machine was decked with 1 overs and her departure was the sig nal for a great ovation She made 1 splendid run, passing five of her com petitors before reaching Chartres. The l crowd around MT. Vanderbilt's ma chine prevented him from reaching the starting line in time and he was fur | ther delayed by controversy with the
 judges, finally starting two minutes late. The last departure was at quarter to seven this morning.
 The reports along the route soon showed that Louis Renault was mak- | ing a great race and before Chartres he had overtaken and passed Charles
 Jarrott Nj. Rene de Knyff, and gained
 lead which he never after lost Des- patches from Vendome, Tours and
 Poictiers told of his passing through
 ahead and Bordeaux sent the an- nouncement of his arrival first, at F
 hours If minutes 45 seconds. He had ebaten Henri Fournier's record of
 hours A minutes. Charles sJarrott finished second at 12:30, having cov- cred the course in hours A minutes.
 H. Gabriel arrived third, at 1:OS, his time being 8 hours minutes. The other contestants who made fast time
 were J. Salleron, s hours 40 minutes; Baron de Crawper, hours 5 minutes; J. B. Warden, hours 50 minutes, and IT Uniot boIIrs 55 minutes
 During the afternoon word of the ac- cidents began to arrive and cast a cloud over the event
 despatch from Bordeaux announc-
 ed that Lorraine Barrows had met with a shocking accident near Li- bourne, seventeen miles from Bor-
 deaux, at quarter to two this after
 noon. It appears that MT. Barrows had tried to avoid a dog which was crossing the track, and his monster car, No. in the race, struck a tree with terrific force His chauffeur was killed outright Barrows himself was picked up unconscious, but still breathing and was taken to hospital, where his con dition was declared to be critical. His car was dashed 10 pieces Shortly af- forwards news came from Marcel Re- nault had been overturned in a deep ditch beside the road near Coupe, tWen- ty-one miles from Poictiers, and that he was dangerously injured. The au- tomobile club of Bordeaux received a despatch at 4 o'clock saying Renault was unconscious and, it was feared, dying. Louis Renault, Marcel's broth CT, was deeply affected by the news and at once started back to his broth CTS assistance. Orders were given to withdraw all the Renault cars from the race. Many lesser breakdowns and casualties are reported. An early re- port that one of the two brothers Far man had been injured is unconfirmed. Late in the afternoon an unconflrmed report came from Bordeaux that se- rious accident had occurred near An gouleme, two occupants of an automo- ble being thrown out and injured and two spectators killed No name or de-, tails was given.
 The result of the first stage of the race appears to be a draw between the merits of the light and heavy vehicles.
 Louis Renault drove light machine, weighing $50 pounds and of thirty horse power, while Gabriel drove 8 heavy machine of seventy horse power, weighing 1000 pounds. =.
 The position of the winners of the, first stage, deducting the time allow ance for slowing down inside the cit ies, are as follows:
 Gabriel, 5 hours 13 minutes; Louis Renault hours g minutes; Salderon,' 7 hours AS minutes; Jarrott. 5 hours 51 minutes; Warden, 5 hours 56 minutes; Baron de Crawper, 6 hours 1 minute; Voigt, hours minutes; Barras, 6 hours 12 minutes; Mougier, hours IS minutes, and Mouter, 6 hours + min- utes.