The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-04-22
Arthur Campbell, in A. K. Car,
Plunges in 40-Foot Somer.
sanlt Into ArmOnk River.
LIKE RYALL, OF NEWARK.
HE CRASHED THRO' BRIDGE
His Jaw Broken and Car
Smashed TO Splinters-Roberf-
sons Machine Is Ditched.
Especial to the Evening star.l

TARRYTOWN, April %. = Arthur
Campbell, the daring driver of the oig
"a. K" or Allen-K Kingston racing car,
commonly known as the headache
auto, miraculously escaped death earl,-
today when his giant machine plunged
from a bridge on the Briarclif auto
mobile cup course into the Armonk
river, on the outskirts of valhalla. The
racing car is a complete wreck and lies
smashed to pieces forty feet beneath
the speed course
Campbell was so badly injured that
F., he will be unable to participate In
fridays grsat endurance race. He
was pinned under his ear and nnr-
| ,oyyIy escaped death from being
drowned in the waters of the Ar
monk. His jaw hone is broken aud
he also sustained "a severe scalp
wound. besides severe internal iu-
jurIes.
This accident follows in close sue.
cession Yesterdays smashup. when
James b. Ryall. of Newark with threa
companions. was hurled from his rae
ing car and precipitated with the oth-
ers fifty feet into the waters of the
Sawmill Creek, near Browns Mills. As
in CampbelTs accident. Ryall and his
friends narrowly escaped death by
drowning By a coincidence, the scene
of the two accidents are directly oppo
site ON the long S2-mile course.
Robertson Thrown Into Ditch.
Another accident, the third thus
far. occurred today, when George
Robertson, who will drive u ear on
Friday. was bruised and shaken up,
hut not seriously hurt. Ills car
suervcd and plunged In ditch
near Armonl.
Fortunately the driver was thrown
clear of the car and landed on the soft
turf along the side Of the course.
Campbelrs accident was tragic in the
possibilities of disaster to him and j. Gle
Palma, his mechanic. Speeding at the
rate of ffty miles per hour, the great
car. sISimming the earth Ike huge
swallow, suddenly sI<idded at the
dangerous turn over the little bridge
over the Armonl>. With the speed OF
light IL crashed into telegraph pole,
reboundcd like u rubber hall and VIA
hurled. turning in Its flight, forty feet
down the steep river bank into the
waters far below.
Campbell Held in Mreckase.
Campbell was pinned beneath the
wrecked car. but his mechanic for
tunately landed, after q forty-foo tall,
on soft earth and escaped with a bad
shaking mp.
The car, like Ryalfs Matheson. is 80
smashed it Will not be in shape TO enter
the race ON Friday morning. Ii is the
property of William Hammerstein, son
of the Manhattan Opera House impre-
sario, and it is doubtful il another MA
chine can be made ready to take its
place.
An agreement has been reached Df
tween Frederick S. Skene. State Engi
neer. and Robert Lee Morrell, chair
man of the committee in charge of tie
race. by which the State Engineer will
not interfere. So far as is known now
the race will start at a quarter to
o'clock on Friday morning
The accident TO Campbell at daylight
today SO effectually blocked tho mar
row course that it was Impossible 25r
any machine TO get past had its driver
so desired
After Campbell had been rescued
from beneath his machine, wet to the
skin and covered with mud and weak
| from the loss Of blood through a large
cut in his head, he was removed to tile
home of Dr. George b. Clark. Later
he was taken in a car TO White Plains
where he had his racing Headquarters.
short Turn Here, Too.
I,,.f4
| Mount kisco and Yalhalla. The bridge
where Campbell went INTO the water
/ is q short affair near the Methodist
Church. There is a slight turn, just
as there is to the Saw Mill River bridge.
where Ryall's ear went over yester-
day and Campbell was endeavoring 70
negotiate this curve when he Ment
head ION against a llinlsy railing, carry
ing it before him.
Campbell said, while Dr. Clark was
sewing up his head, that ii vas re-
markable experience.
Il realized as soon as the car turned
over he said, that | vas not inJureh,