The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-05-30
The Famous Racer Has His
Brains Scattered Over !,
Pimlico Track.
HORRIBLE SMASH-UP
OCCURS In PRACTICE
Faulty Wheel Collapsed With
Machine Going Mile in 81
Seconds - Italian Hurled
Far Ahead and Strikes
Fence-Chauffeur to
Queen Helena.

- ALTIMORE, Md. May 29.-Eman-
uel Cedrino. the noted Italian
~ automobile driver. was instant
~ ly killed on Pimlico race-ttack
this evening. He had 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 In fifty -one
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 circular
somersaplt, landing on the back. upside
down.
Those who rushed to the spot found
Cedrino stretched upon his back dead.
with 4 horrible gasn 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 ap-
rarently been thrown as it went over,
and it Is supposed that his head struck
the fence.
Dr. Herbert schonery, who was
watching the practice spins of the en-
trants in to-morrow's races, reached
Cedrino's side almost before the dust
of the accident had cleared away. He
found that the occipital 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 by. The accident appears to have
been caused by the collapse OF the
front wheel on the right Side OF the
car. 1t was a wooden wheel. and small
fragments Of 1t were all that could be
found after the accident.
Machine Total Wreck.
The tire was found practically In
tact. The machine was totally
Cedrino arrived here yesterday and
had expressed himself as sure to break
| the records from one to twenty five
miles. Early in the afternoon he nat
made a circuit OF the mile track II
| ffty-six seconds. When he rbrough
out his car for his final work for th.
day he said to the promoter OF tna
races that he liked the track and par.
ticularly the turns. and that he would
make mile in fifty seconds.
He made three or four trials of the
| track, each faster than the preceding
one. and at the time of the accident was
probably going at the rate of a mile in
| fifty seconds.
|
| the scrap heap. was the one in which
he had made all his records, and was
designed by Cedrino himself in 1906
He stated recently that 1t had been run
5000 miles without material repairs
and it is supposed that the wheel that
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.
Chauffeur for Queen.
E. Cedrino was an Italian, and for
a number OF years before he made his
| debut in the United States as an ex-
pert driver in automobile races was
| chauffeur to Queen Helena, of Italy
His first entry in this country in a
competitive event was in the O1ge
Rock Hill Climb, In 1904 On August
| 2. 1905, he made a new worlds track
record of SO minutes IA 2-5 seconds fol
! fifty miles, at Long Branch. He drove
a car In the Vanderbilt cup race ir
October the same year, but was forced
to drop out after the second lap, wher
his machine broke down. He finished
second in the Briar Cliff trophy race
i last month