The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-05-14
ONE ALREADY DEAD
AT BRIGHTON BEACH
Another Accident Also Occurs
In Brighton Beach Auto
Race.
ANOTHER DEATH PROBABLE
AT 2 O'CLOCK THIS MORNING
BUICK ENTRY WAS IN LEAD.

Brighton Beach, n. Y. May 19.-Death
did not halt the dizzy swirl Of the TWEEN
/ ty-fOur hour automobile race that be
gan on the oval motordrome here last
night. but trifling disarrangement OF
the signaling system stopped all cars
for twelve minutes.
William F. Bradley of Newark, n j.,
mechanician for Louis Strang- VINO
drove a Marion, was fatally injured at
1918 this morning when his car skidded
at the turn in the stretch crashed
against the fence and turned three SOM
ersauIts. He died an hour later at the
Coney Island hospital. Hubert F. An
derson, who was driving for Strang
at the time, escaped with nothing worse
than scratches; Strang said the car
would be back in the race again within
ninety minutes. but at a. M 1t was
still off the track.
Just an hour after the first accident,
the Cole car. driven by w. Endicott
likewise skidded into the fence. The
chauffeur and mechanician escaped un-
injured, but the car was badly wrecked
whether II could resume.
At o'clock there was a third acci-
dent. Buick car No. 2, driven by George
Dewitt, skidded at the turn in the
back stretch, hurled against the fence
and turned turtle. Dewitt was I'M
hurt, but his mechanician Jack Tow
ers, was taken to the hospital badly in
er he will live.
The a. m. score:
Buick No. 1, 269 miles.
Stearns No. 2. 25s miles.
Rainier, 256 miles.
Twelve racing automobiles shot away
on the oval motOrdrOTne here at 9:02
o'clock tonight in a twenty-four hour
race. Burman, driver of Buick No. 2.
was first to sweep around the mile
track in 1:13, closely followed by the
other Buick entry.
At the end of the first hour Burman
had negotiated fifty-six miles. equaling
the Brighton Beach record made by a
car of the same make last year. Buick
No. was second at the end of the
flrst four and the Fiat entry third.
The track was in excellent condition
and weather conditions were promising.
The entries follow:
ford. '' -'7 w. = III ~ en " la Jpn W u'-
2-Sterns No. ., Frank Dearborn
S-Buick No. /, Louis Chevrolet.
4-Buick No. 2. Robert Burman-
marion, Louis Strang.
Sole, W. Endicott.
erts
s-Simplex, c. Basic.
9-Fiat, F. H. Parker
10-Selden. George Mack.
11-Ranier, Louis Disbrow.
2DCroXton-KeetOn, c. H. Lund.
First hour score: Buick No l, 56
miles, first; Buick No ,. second; Fiat
third All cars going well.
At midnight, the end of the third
hour, the score stood: Buick No. l, 1913
miles; Buick No 2, $50 miles: Stearns
No. 1, 100 miles. Record. 1877 miles
made by Buick last year.
The race was stopped at 1880 because
it was reported an accident had oc-
CURED on the back stretch. Investiga-
/ tion, however, developed that officials
had found the feed wire to the signal
lamps in front of the judges stand
dropping dangerously. 1t was feared
the cars could not run under it safely
and time was taken out while repairs
were made.
After u minutes DELAY. all cars with
the exception of the previously dis
abled Marion resumed.
Marion car No 5, driven by Hubert
Anderson. who was substituted for
Louis Strang, skidded at the turn into
the stretch at 1918, and crashed into
the fence.
The car turned over three times, but
Anderson escaped with scarcely
scratch His mechanician, William F.
Bradley, was taken to a hospital I'M
conscious. and died this Saturday
morning. 1t was his first 24-hour race
He was 29 years old, married, and lived
in Newark, n. J.