The morning journal-courier., 1908-07-30
Flying Gar Turns Turtle and Driver Is Pinned Beneath Wreckage as It
 Burns.
DIES LATER IN AGONY
Machine of W. K. Vanderbilt's Step- son, Speeding at 75 Miles an Hour, Bound for Chateau
 Outside Paris.

In many years, c, Winthrop Sands, q step-son of w, K Vanderbilt, was kill ed this morning just outside the grounds of Mir Vanderbit's beautiful country seat. the Chateau st. Louis de Poissy, 20 miles from Paris.
 MT. Sands was driving hls 50-horse power car alon gat terrific clip, in a desire to reach the Chateau, where Mrs. sands and her infant daughter were staying, He had always been known as q reckless driver and, as he had been deyayed at railroad crossings he opened the throttle wide as he ap- preached the Chateau grounds.
 Almost Immediately a tire burst and the machine crashed into tree, turning turtle and burying Mir. Sands under the forward part and pinning the chauffeur Pickins. to the ground. An explosion followed. and in mo- ment the car was in flames.
 Peasants working in the adjoining fields were the only witnesses to the accident. They rushed to the rescue, but fearing at further explosion of the gasolene tank and deterred by the sweep of flames, they stood idly by not knowing how to give assistance to the Injured men. Finally they man. aged to raise the rear of the ear and , release the chauffeur both of whose feet had been held tight and little later after beating down the fire. they dragged out the torn. bleeding and burned body of Mir. Sands,
 Help soon arrived from tho Chateau which Is in the center of Mir. Wander bilt's great breeding farm. The in- jured men were carried to the house where 1t was found that Mir, Sands was beyond the hope of recovery but that the chauffeur was not seriously injured.
 Picklns later gave the Associated Press q graphic account of the acci- dent. We had left Deauville." he said. "at 5 o'clock in the morning Mir Sands having gone there yesterday tc see his two-year-old daughter, who was there with Mrs. Vanderbilt and his brother stephen. Mir. Sands was driving and we were going at rapid pace. probably 75 miles an hour, as he was anxious to reach the Chateau where Mrs. Sands and the baby were.
 "The machine was a b0-horee power car and capable of great speed. Two enforced delays at railroad crossings had somewhat annoyed Mir Sands. and as we approached the Chateau ground! he asked me the hour It was exact ly 7:l5 a. m. We're late, he muttered and at the same time opened the throt tie wider Almost immediately tn right hand foreward tire blew up. Tn machine ekdded and bumped, an then seemed to jump off the road struck a tree with such force that 1 rebounded against another, literall! climbing up the trunk and then top bling over backwards. imprlsoning Ml Sands under the forward part.
 "Only my feet were caught unde the rear portion of the car and
 lost consciousness for momen When l recovered the wreck alread was In flames, the gasoline tank hay ing exploded From where l lay,
 could gee that Sands was utterly help less amid the burning wreckage. HI right leg, which was crushed and al most severed, was bleeding profusel! ly.
 MT, Sands was groaning In agon! but keeping his nerve. 1 struggle but l could not free myself, 1 turne as far as 1 could and asked, are yo suffering much?' and he answere'
 My God, horribly.
 T again lost consciousness an when 1 came to l was lying on th roadside and the peasants were teal ing apart the hot twisted iron, l extricatine Mir Sands, his leg was 'e
 in the wreckage, separating from tt body as the man was dragged out. Il The servants, fearing the effect ( Mrs Sands concealed from her Il gravity of the accident and persuade her not to enter the room where h, dying husband had been placed. II doctor summoned from Poissy cou only try to alleviate his sufferlngs wit oplates Several times the man regalne consciousness and cried out in agon his last words being a cry for water c. Winthrop Sands was son of MT ] W, K. Vanderbilt, ST, by her first hu! band, Samuel Stevens Sands, whom sr married when she was a girl of les than 20 years. She had two children b her first marriage, George Wnthro Sands and Samuel Stevens Sands. In June, 1906, Sands purchased
 seat on the New York stock exchang for $SS,000 which was the top pric at that time He sold the seat 1 | 1907 and went into the motor vehicl business with offices in Night and Da bank building. He had always bee an enthusiastic automobilist
 Sands was a student at Harvard be fore he went into the stock exchange He was graduated in 1905
 Sands had lived abroad most of hi life, but came to New York at las and went to work In the bankin house of Taller & Robinson. He ha lived here at the home of his step father, w. K Vanderbilt.
 In 1905 he married Miss Tayo New ton, the daughter of Dr. B. Newtol The marriage took place without tf presence of the father and mother