The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-01-08

'I -Df.-E NV,
victims. Since the whiz wagon be-
came the plaything and the mania or
the rich it is estimated that about lol
members of millionaire families nave
met with violent death in automobile
accidents.
It has been eight years since Count
Caheen D'Anvers was instantly killed
bv his machine striking tree along
a country road in France, and he was
the first of a long roster OF titled VIC
tins. Baron Won Bleichroeder col
lded with a stone cart near Cologne
while his car was going 60 miles an
hour. The machine upset, and the ma
chinery continuing to work, pounded
the victim to death. Count ZboroWski
and Baron de Pallange were hurled
against stone wall during a race
near Nice, France, in 1908. Marquis
D'Audiffret-P asquier was fatally In
jured shortly afterward when
bursting tire overturned his machine.
Count They was another titled
French victim. His machine sWerVed
while he was going down hill at Les
Champes. and he was dashed against
a stone wall. He died within two
hours.
There have been many notable
American victims of the automobile
tragedy.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles L. Fair were
both instantly killed near Saint Agu-
lin. France, in 1902. The tire burst
and the machine struck tree while 1t
was going at a speed of 60 miles an
hour. Their chauffeur was driven In
sane by the shock.
Mrs. William M. Stewart, wife OF
former United States Senator Stewart,
was killed at Alameda, Cal.
One of the most tragic OF Amerl'
, can automobile accidents was that IN
=, which Mrs William A. Westphal re-
ceived injuries which caused her death
:, within few hours. She was in the
car with William R. Standberry, rich
silk manufacturer, who ran his ma
chine into a horse and wagon in Dun
S ellen. N. j., in 1905. Mrs. Standberry
h committed suicide because OF the rev
If Citations made by the accident. ano
y her husband died, a nervous wreck
D, within a few months
9 Vinson Walsh's Tragic End.
- Vinson Walsh, son of the mining
,f king, was killed while speeding nea
70 Newport in the summer OF 1908. I'LL
NJ sister. Miss Evelyn Walsh, and Mrs
" James l.. Kernochan were seriously IN
~ iured. Harry Oelrichs and Herber
Pell also received injuries in the sam
accident. which was caused by tn
" machine dashing through the woode
~ railing of bridge into stream.
-, After this accident Miss Walsh, nov
Mrs. Mclean, was for time too niue
;, shocked to look at an auto Wlthou
49, trembling, but when she had recovere
~ her nerve somewhat her father ma
- built for her an 'invalid's car Whlc
=. was one of the most luxurious eve
ed built.
United States District Attorne
Baker of Washington while autom
nf bling with his bride in New Iol
~ state in August of this year, plunge
20 20 over a 3OO,foot precipice. The M
49,. 49, chine. after turning three somesaul
-. ~ in the air lodged in tree top, and
?" though they were severely injured tt
occupants of the car escaped death
no what seemed to be miracle.
~. ~ The automobile age is full of stirril
~ romance, adventure and tragedy. 1t
.no a more eventful age than the age
w. chivalry, more picturesque than u
w. w. crusades, more extravagant than u
III age of Nero, more given to folly TN
~ Babylon. We are right in the mid
,no of it, and the whirr OF the machl
~; ~ is so confusing that we cannot reall
how picturesque it is. But the II
nv torian of the future will write
~ down as being swifter than our oN
not whiz wagons.