The Imperial press., 1905-09-30

King, sixth victim, and the most un- fortunate of all, lies at the point of death in the Emergency Hospital.
 E. K. Green, wealthy engineer of 15O4 West Eighth street, according to witnesses, was racing down East First street. At a curve in the street he steered across to the wrong side of the roadway. The machine struck King, an oiler for the Los Angeles railway, and tossed him twenty feet. King fell on his head, unconscious.
 Meantime Green had swerved his au- tomobile to avoid running over King and the machine crashed into tele- phone pole. Two screams rang out from Greens wife and daughter in law as they were thrown to the sidewalk.
 The baby feil on is head. It's escape was miraculous, as it was only slightly scratched. All the others were bruised and violently shaken up.
 Witnesses say that Mir. Green was racing his machine with one driven by G. E. Platt, ce-president of the Belle Vernon Farms Company. Both were going west and turned the curve on the wrong side of the road.
 In the automobile with MT. Green were Mrs. E. K.a Green, Floyd Green, MT. Greens son, Mrs. Floyd Green and the infant girl.
 STRUCK WHILE AT HIS WORK.
 Mrs. E. K. Green was severely shaken and her right arm badly wrenched. Floyd Greens hand was sprained, but his wife was only slightly bruised.
 Sam King, who lives at 321S East First, was standing at the corner of East First street, where the old power house was located. The street turns there and King was at the bend. As he stepped into the road to oil the car tracks the auto cut sharp across the corner. The lamp of the auto struck King, doubling him up. Mir. Green then swerved the machine, and in do- ing so struck telephone pole. The front part of the car was smashed and all the occupants thrown out.
 Nearly all the witnesses agree that MT. Green was racing with MT. Pfatt.
 Mrs. Ida Gardner, who lives at First and Breed streets, said:
 "I saw both automobiles speeding down First street. The red one, owned by Mir. Platt, was in front, going at a rapid rate. The one behind was trying to keep up and don't think the man in front knew that the other one was racing him. said to my husband that some one would get hurt by one of those autos when they struck that bend in the road. I wasn't abitsurprised when I heard of the smashup."
 Mir. Green denied that he was speed ing. But he admitted that he turned the curve on the wrong side of the road. . "It makes me furious to hear these people talking like that about the rate l was going at," he said. "i was not driving too fast. I was just coming along at an ordinary rate, driving very carefully, as I always do."
 Mir. Green and his family were coming in from Santa Ana. Floyd Green and his wife live in the Imperial Valley and were coming i'll to spend few weeks with their parents.
 Mir. Green formerly was known as the only windmill man in Los Angeles. He has made fortune out of windmills. He first introduced them into Southern California. His plant was at the corner of Buena Vista and Ord streets He sold out a few years ago and became consulting hydraulic engineer, residing at 1904 West Eighth.
 The ambulance carried Sam King to the Emergency Hospital at once. He was found to have sustained fractured skull, dislocated shoulder and bruises all over his body. His condition is pre- cariOus. say thedoctors Heisexpected to die at any minute. The Green family went home in another auto and Mr.