The morning journal-courier. (New Haven, Conn.) 1907-1913, 1908-05-30
Italian Driver in West Ha-
ven Hill Climb Instantly
Killed on the Balti-
more Track.
AUTOMOBILE TURNS TURTLE
Breaking of Wheel Wrecks Ma
chine Going 70 Miles an
Hour in Try Out for
To- days Race.

Baltimore. May 29.-Emanuel Ced-
rino, the noted Italian automobile
driver was instantly killed on Prim-
lico race track this evening. He mad
been preparing for races in which he
was to have taken part tomorrow
and was making some very fast
miles. One had just been finished hy
him In 81 seconds and he had passed
the grand stand and rounded the first
corner Of the track when spectators
saw his car shoot into the air and
turn a sort of somersault, landing on
the track upside down.
Those who rushed to the spot found
Cedrino stretched upon his back, dead,
with horrible cash in the back of his
head and portions of his brains scat
tered about He was some distance
from the car, from which he had
apparently been thrown as 1t went
over and 1t Is supposed that his mead
struck the fence. DR.. Herbert
Schroenrich. who was watching the
practice spins of the entrants in to-
morrow's race. reached Cedrino's side
had cleared away. He found that
the occipltal bone had been torn out
entirely and that large portion Of
the brain was also missing This
was found in pieces on the track near
hy. The accident appears to have
been caused by the collapse of the
front wheel on the right hand side Of
tta
small fragments of 1t were all that
could be found after the accident. The
tire was found practically intact. The
machine was totally wrecked.
Cedrno arrived here yesterday and
expressed himself as sure to break the
records from one to twenty-five miles.
Earlier in the afternoon he made a
circuit of the mile track in So seconds.
When he brought out his car for his
final spin for the day he told the pro-
moters of the races that he liked the
track and particularly the turns and
that he would make q mile in so Sec
onds He made three or four circuits
of the track, each faster than the pre-
ceding one, and at the time of the ac-
cident was going probably at the rate
Of a mile in 80 seconds
The car, which is now only fit for
the scrap heap, was the one in which
he has made all his records and was
designed by Cedrino himself, in 1906.
He said recently that 1t had been
run 5000 miles without material re-
pairs. It is supposed that the wheel
which failed had suffered by this use
more than was apparent 1t Is known
that the engine was In perfect condition
when the car was brought on the track
for the last time.
+. Cedrino was an italian and for
numberof years before appearing In the
United States as an expert driver in
automobile races was chauffeur to
Queen Helena of Italy. His first entry
In this country in competitive event
was in the Eagle Rock hill climbing
In 1924. On August %. 1905, he made
new worlds track record of SO min
utes, IA 3-5 seconds for fifty miles at
Long Branch, n. J. He drove a car
In the Vanderbilt cup race In October
the same year, but was forced to drop
out after the second lap. his machine
having broken down. He finished in
the Briarcliff trophy race last month.
Cedrlno was considered fearless and
skillful driver. Several times ne met
with accidents the most notable of
which was prior to the fatal one of to-
day was in the big four cornered road
race In Cuba in 1906 He was driving
n 100 horsepower car and ran into a
tree on the first lap at a double IS"
curve al Artmesia. The car turned tur-
tie and Cedrino and his mechanician
were thrown out Cedrino's leg was
badly torn, he was cut about the face
and received numerous contusions.