Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-09-19
TELEGRAPH NEWS

Colorado Springs, Colo, sept. H.
Eight men crowded into n powerful
racing automobile built to hold but
wild burst of speed down West Huer.
fano street hill this morning and death
won in the most frightful accident in
the history of Colorado Springs. Three
men were instantly killed, being man.
gled almost beyond recognition One
afterward died making the fourth
death The other four occupants were
more or less seriously injured. The
dead are: w. H. Ralston. John S.
Grey, II. Winnall. Britton l.. Graves.
The injured: X. o. James, George
Buckley. F. II. Ward and A. w. Mark
shaffel. The accident happened at 3
O'Clock this morning just after the
automobile, with its merry jesting pas
sengers crowded into two seats and
plunged at a terrific clip down TIE
hill on West Huerfano street. Mark
sheffel, who was driving, lost control
of the wheel and the powerful ma
chine swerving from side to side
across the car tracks ran into the gut
ter on the south side of the street
For fully fifty feet the heavy car
plunged onward the right wheels run
ming in the gutter and two left wheels
higher on the curb. The right from
wheel struck some object and the
machine was thrown a distance of
about forty feet down the hill. The
car would have been whirled down the
hill for a still greater distance but
for telephone pole which barred the
way and it was this pole that probably
caused the death of two and possibly
three victims. Grey was thrown out
OF the car and jammed against the
telephone pole as thrown from cata
pault. The entire left side of his face
was flattened, the impact tearing the
top of his head of. Ralston was evi
IDENTIFY thrown against a pole OF
against board fence on the othei
side of the walk. His skull was also
fractured as was that of Winnall, Il
such injuries can be called fractures
Winnal was hurled distance of more
than fifty feet. Marsksheffel bear
the reputation of being a daring ana
at times, reckless driver and this repu
tation is not confined to this city
alone. Ralston was a member of the
Central Electric company. Grey and
Winnal, were both professional chauf
feurs. Britton Graves, who died ir
the hospital this morning was EN-.
ployed as a drug clerk. They were
h Prominent Elks and attended social
session given at the Elks' club last
night to nonresident Elks of the city
AS the time approached for the brean
ing up of festivities some one sug,
gested an automobile ride. The fun.
seeking crowd clambered aboard q
machine, clinging to the guards and
seat and drove to Manitou. The roaL
back is good slope and the car is
said to have been speeding at rate
OF sixty miles an hour when the ac.
cident occurred.
Asheville. N. c., Sept 17.-Judge
Pritchard, of the federal court, will
tomorrow hear the application for an
order restraining the state courts
from taking action in suits brought
for the recovery of penalties for vic
lation of the passenger rate law, in
stituted against the North Carolina
railroad in Alamance county. The
North Carolina road is subsidiary
corporation of the Southern, which
operates it by virtue of a ninety-yeaI
lease. 1t is expected that the ques
tion as to whether the North Caroline
road is an integral part of the South
ern system will be raised at the hear.
ing. 1t is not unlikely that an effort
win be made to abrogate the lease ol
the North Carolina to the Southern
road. The Alamance county plaintiffs
to the suit are represented by Jacob
A. Long. brother of Judge Long, who
recently imposed fine of 100000 on
the Southern at Raleigh.
Toxic, Sept. 17.-Forty of the crew
were killed and injured on board the
Japanese battleship Kashima by al
explosion after target practice near
Kureat September 8. The Kashima
reached Kureat at p. m. where the
wounded were placed in the hospital
The fatally injured include lieuten
ant, two colonels and one staff officer
rank and name not given. The exact
details regarding the effects of the
explosion are lacking but 1t was ter
rife and the ship was badly damaged
The explosion followed an attempt to
remove an unexploded shell from the
gun. A majority of the bystanders
+ we're fearfully mutilated. The casual
ties reported as a result of the ex-
plosion are as follows: Killed, five
officers and six men; slightly wound
ed, two officers and six men. The