Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-25
CAR
HURTS CAPITALIST
Ehrman Grigsby of Santa Monica
Victim of Serious Accident
After Races
SPECTATORS FALL FROM TREE
Crowds Gather Near Nevada
Curve in Expectancy of
Crash at Corner
SPECTATORS FALL FROM TREE

SANTA MONICA, Nov. 24.-As a ell
max to series of accidents attendant
on the road races today, an automobile
driven by Ehrman Grigsby, a capital
list of Santa Monica, overturned in front
of the grandstand at dusk and he was
probably seriously injured. He was PIN
ioned beneath the machine when res
cued, and tonight was unconscious at
his home, corner OF Ocean and Oregon
avenues. Grigsby's five-year-old son,
Philip was painfully, but not seriously
injured.
Grigsby was driving his car home
after the race when he ran into two
cars at a fair rate of speed and the
machine overturned. Grigsby suffered
no broken bones and no marks are
shown on his body. 1t is thought he
has internal injuries The accident VIC
tim has been cashier of the Merchants
National bank of Santa Monica and re-
signed this week to take the presidency
of the True Egg Manufacturing com
pany.
P. ]. Cowgirl, aged 81, of 805 Santa
Fe avenue, Los Angeles, and Leland
Jackson of Fremont avenue, this city,
each suffered broken leg when a large
limb of a pepper tree from which young
u
broke and fell to the ground. Cowgirl
was standing beneath the tree when the
accident occurred.
TWO ARE. SENT TO HOSPITAL
At one time there were at least twelve
young men in the tree, but the police
compelled them to descend with the ex-
ception of Jackson, who crawled to the
outer end of the big limb to get bet
ter view of the racers. Both men were
taken to Santa Monica Bay hospital
Abe Tyne, fifteen years of age, who
resides at the Harvey hotel, Third and
Flower streets, Los Angeles, was found
unconscious on the highway between
Palms and Venice at 3 o'clock this
morning. He had apparently been run
down by an automobile while making
his way on bicycle to Santa Monica 70
witness the races. He was seen lying
alongside the road by Frank Austin of
Los Angeles, a driver for the Union Oil
company and brought to the Santa
Monica Bay hospita in his automobile.
The boys right foot was crushed and
he was otherwise bruised and cut. He
recovered consciousness soon after ar
irving at the hospital, but was unable
to tell whose machine struck him.
George Clark, driving a Cutting car
in the first division of the light car
race, had a remarkable escape from in
jury when his machine crashed against
the railing of the Nevada avenue curve
within a mile of the starting point.
His mechanic also escaped. Both right
wheels struck the neavy timber railing
while the car was going at forty
mile rate of speed and the steering
gear was rendered useless. The ma
chine followed the curbing for a dis
tance of more than 200 feet and collid-
ed with a telephone pole just as Clark
set the brake tightly.
The machine removed a cap from a
fire plug in passing and the following
cars in the race We're compelled to dash
through a stream of water that spurted
across the street. This was the only
automobile that even grazed the railing
in the series of races, although several
times others came within a few inches
of it.
CROWDS AT SHARP CURVE
That there was certain morbid
curiosity ON the part of the spectators
at the races was demonstrated by the
size of the crowd that gathered in the