The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-09
DEATH DUE TO FAULTY TIRE,
MEUSEL, DRIVER FOR GEORGE
ARENTS, THE ONE VICTIM.
Ills Employer Seriously but Not Fatally
Hurt--Wheel Gave Way and Auto Over
turned-wallace Runs Over His Ma
chInist--Min0r Mishaps We're Many

turned-Wallace Runs Over His Ma.
chinist--Min0r Mishaps We're Many.
The one fatal accident in the 800 mile
race for the Wander bilt cup on Long Island
Yesterday resulted In the death OF Carl
Meusel, chauffeur. and the serious injury,
OF George Arents, Dr., rich New Yorker
who was driving his 90 horsepower Mer-
cedes in which Meusel was acting as me-
chanic.
A tire broke just after the big machine
had rounded a curve, and the automobile,
running on wooden rim. which soon gave
way, upset. throwing out its owner and
partly crushing the mechanic.
The accident, according to experts,
was probably the result OF a small smash
up that happened when Arentss car
reached the edge of the Hampstead contr oil
on the first round. At this point machines
were obliged to come to full stop, after
which they were allowed to proceed through
Hampstead at slow speed.
Arents came along the road toward the
line at a furious rate and when he applied
his brake to stop at the line the back wheels
NJ the machine locked and the big auto
skidded. Arents, realizing that his brake
was not working properly, held up his hand
as a warning to the crowd at the line and
in 80 doing lost complete control Of his
machine.
1t swerved over the line and to one side
OF the road. where it came to stop against
tree. The impact was not enough TO
damage the machinery but the driver was
obliged to back up to the line before his
time could be taken
VICTIMS FIRST MIsHAP.
he
behind the machine to see if any damage
had been done. He found that rear tire
was smashed. Arents in his hurry to get
back to the line. reversed his engine with
out giving his mechanic warning and the
latter was knocked down. Bystanders
thought that Meusel's leg had been run
over, hut he said that it hadn't, limped
70 the machine and took his place again.
So far as is known the broken tire was
not repaired, for when the machine ap-
pAared at Hampstead on its second round
il was noticed that the tire was fat From
Hampstead the route led to Queens, and
it was about two miles east of the latter
place that the second and fatal mishap to
the machine occurred.
There is curve at that point sufficiently
abrupt to cause the auto drivers to slow
down. Arents rounded this curve at a
thirty mile clip and was beginning to gain
speed again when the tire came of from his
left rear wheel and rolled along the road
like chld's hoop.
The automobile swerved sharply to the
left almost to the trolley tracks which ad-
join the road. Arents apparently threw his
steering wheel over, and the machine
swerved again. this time toward the middle
of the road and across it. Again Arents
tried to get the auto headed straight, but
it began to zig-zag toward the trolley
tracks again.
WHEEL GIVES WAY AND AUTO TURNS OVER.
Then the rim of the whes gave way.
Arents was thrown out and thirty feet fur
Their along the automobile turned over on
its side with crash, throwing the mechanic,
Meusel, With it,.
There were few watchers at the place
where the accident happened, but those who
were there were quick to act. Arents was
picked up unconscious and laid out under
tree and then the rescuers turned their
attention to Meuscl He partly under
the car With his coat tangled in its mechan-
ism. He, too was unconscious and his
head vas terribly bruised and torn. while
Ills left ear was almost severed from his
head.
FOLLOW ing the car was a Pope Toledo
which Albert c. Webb was driving. Those
Who were taking care of the injured men
ran to the side OF the road and their signals
caused the onconing racer to slow up
enough to see that there had been an acct
dent and to understand that an ambulance
was wanted.
In two minutes Webb was slowing up at
Greens and there he yelled to the police
that there had been an accident. An am
h,:lance from ST. Marys Hospital in Long
Island lily was stationed there and in
few minutes it had carried a surgeon to the
injured man.
DRIVER UNCONSCIOUS UNTIL DEATH
Il was found that Meusel had COM
pound fracture Of the skull, a broken RIB,
severe decorations of the head and interna
inurie5. He never regaiEed consciousness
and died an hour and half later in the \ as
sau Hospital at Mineola, where ne ana MS
employer were taken. ,
It was found that Arents was badly
bruised and that he had scalp wound over
his right eye. He was partially conscious
when he was put into the ambulance. AZ the
hospital after more thorough examina-
ton had been made, 1t was said that he
might possibly have a slight fracture OF
the skull, but thot there was little doubt OF
his recovery.
near Westbury. and soon news OF the acct
dent was telephoned there. W iliam \. Van,
derbt, Jr., the donor OF the cup; hunted
out Mrs Arents and told her that her h,is-
had been hurt, but that he was in no danger.
Mrs. Arents went Immediately 20 the hos
pital where she was joined later by Arentss
father. who came down from the Waldorf
astoria here he was staying.
Young Arents's father is director OF
the American TOBACCO Company and ne
Company, president Of the Banner Cheroot
Company and treasurer CT the International
Cigar Machinery Company. He has been
living at the Waldorf.
Meusel, the dead chauffeur. lived at 1887
First avenue. He was "a years old and
came to this country in 1900 In connection
with an electric fore-carriage. an AUTO
mobile innovation that didn't make a sue
cess He drifted into automobile racing
and has been a participant in many con-
teAts in the last two years
A. C. wEBBs NARROW ESCAPE.
Albert C. Webb, who brought the news OF
The accident to Queens, had an escape
from lnIury later in the day that was little
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