Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-05-26
T FATALITIES
END RACE
Paris Madrid Automobile
Trial Stopped on Account
of Serious Accident.
EIGHT PEOPLE KILLED
Several More Seriously, Some Fatally
Injured-Marcel Renault May Die
Time For Notwithstanding Stage
of 343 Miles Was Fast.

Paris, May 25.-The death of eight
people and the serious injury of 9TH
ers during the first stage of the Paris
Madrid automobile race caused both
the French and Spanish governments
to put stop to the exhibition of speed
and to forbid the racers to carry on
the event either in France or Spain
The casualties thus far reported are
as follows:
Marcel Denault, winner of Paris
Vienna race, feared to be dying; ma
chine wrecked; chauffeur seriously in
jured.
Lorraine Barrows, fatally injured;
chauffeur killed outright; machine
wrecked.
Mr. Porter, machine wrecked; over
turned in crowd and took fire; chat
feur burned to death.
Mr. Stead, machine collides with ri
val: both drivers and their chaffeurs
seriously hurt.
Two soldiers and child, killed in
disaster to Porter's automobile.
Woman killed while crossing road
in front of restaurant.
Two spectators killed near Angou-
leme.
Race Forgotten
Although the time for the first stage
of 343 miles from Versailles to Bor-
deau was fast enough to break pre-
vious records, that fact was FORGOTTEN
in the dismay attendant upon the re-
ception of the news from along the
road to the effect that numerous seri-
Gus and fatal accidents had taken
place as a result of the race. Marcel
! Repai,lt. whose life is despaired of
| is a brother of Louis Renault. who
wen the time. record for the Wersail
/ les Bordeaux stage, and soon after
| the latter reached his goal he heard
lof his brothers. injuries and returned
! to his aid.
Chauffeur Burned to Death.
Then the afternoon and night dis
patches arrived from points along the
course. adding to the list OF fatalities
and accidents. The most terrible ont
occurred near Bonneval,nineteen mile:
| from Chartres, where machine No. "a;
/ driven by NJ Porter, was overturned
at a railroad crossing and took fire
/ The chauffeur was caught underneath
4
4 while two soldiers and child were
killed
A chauffeur was badly injured b,
/ an accident to his motor car near An
gouleme. A woman crossing the roa'
4 in the neighborhood of Albis was rul
over by one of the competing cars an
/ killed.
1 Automobile enthusiasts regret that thu
4 accidents made it impossible to continu,
the race as the time for the first stage In
dicated that some new records would b'
made for the entire distance. Louis Re
j nault the first to arrive. covered the dis
tance from Versailles to Bordeaux. 34'
miles, in eight hours fourteen minutes an'
5 forty-tve seconds. thus heating Fournier1
4 record of eight hours, forty-four minutes
Renault made IL great race. Long bcfor
he reached Ghartres he had overtakep an'
passed Charles Jarrett, Nj. Rene dc knyfi
land gained a lead which he never lost af
:. ter. Dispatches from Nendome, Tours
and Poictiers told of his passing through
ahead and Bordeaux sent the announce
t ment of his arrival first. AT Beourdiniere
, between Chartres and Bonneval. his ma
N chine attained maximum speed of Soos
miles per hour.
Charles Jarrott finished second at 1913
| having covered the course in eight hour
and forty-four minutes.
NJ Gabriel arrived third at :OS his tim
5 being eight hours and seven minutes.