New-York tribune., 1910-06-03
JOCKEY KILLED
IN GRAVESEND RACE
Life Crushed Out as Three
Horses Go Down in
a Bunch.
OTHERS NARROWLY ESCAPE
Fred Langan, Riding Into Fallen
Pair, Stepped On as He
Lies Stunned on
Track.
OTHERS NARROWLY ESCAPE

Fred Langan, a jockey in the employ
of Richard F. Carman. the we'll known
amateur whip, was instantly killed In
race at Gravesend yesterday He had
the mount on the Oneck Stables Stall
wart Lad, which was one of three ami
mails that went crashing to the track as
the field of thirteen horses rushed
around the turn into the stretch in the
last race on the programme. The boy
never moved after falling, and the doc
tors say that death must have been in
stantaneous, probably from a fracture of
the skull.
Jimmy Butwell, who is under contract
to James R Keene, and S. Davis, who
went down at the same time. were more
fortunate. The latter escaped with a
bruised leg, but Butwelrs nose was
broken and the top of an ear was cut
off cleanly by the steel shod hoof of one
of the following horses.
Little of the distressing accident could
lie seen from the grandstand. but cry
of horror and dsmay went up from the
crowd as Warwick swerved against the
rail just before the home turn was
reached and went down in heap. But
well, who had the mount, shot up in the
air and fell under the hoofs of the flying
field.
Muff. with Davis up, stumbled over
Warwick. while Stalwart Lad, coming
up from behind crashed into 10th
horses, and, to all appearances, turned a
complete somersault, pinning Langan
beneath him. Some other horse then
stepped on the face of the PROSTATE
jockey and crushed out his life.
Mrs. Butwell, the wife of one of the
Jockeys, who was sitting in the grand
stand directly behind the press box,
burst into tears. as if fearing the worst,
and hundreds of others stood about with
sober faces instead Of making the usual
wild rush for the train, and waited for
news of the boys that came all too soon
Willing hands rushed to the aid of the
youngsters as they lay stretched out on
the track, but Langan was beyond help.
and his body was takeN back to the
jockey room in the ambulance Davis
rode back on the tail of the starters
wagon. while Butwell was hurried to the
Emergency Hospital. at Coney Island.
R. F. Carrnan and his son, Dick. were
greatly affected by the death of the boy,
the latter being almost in tears as he
came from the room where the body lay.
Both were attached to the youngster,
who Joined the stable last fall as an ex-
ercise boy and quickly developed into a
Jockey of great promise.
Langan was eighteen years old and a
native OF this city His father is dead,
but he leaves mother. whose chief sup
port he was, and several brothers and
sisters Mrs. Langan moved to Sleeps
head Bay yesterday. so that the boy could
have a home near the tracks where he
worked, and she was prostrated with
grief when the sad news was taken to
her.
Langan rode his first winner at the
Jacksonville meeting last winter. Since
coming North he had shown marked skill,
and. as Mr.. Carman said yesterday, was
a good boy about horses. He did not
know the meaning of the word fear. He
did all the riding for Mr.. Carman when
he could make the weight, and rode
Senprolus to victory in the National
Stallion Stakes last Saturday. His last
winning mount was Stanley Fay, on
! Wednesday.
It is some time since fatal accident
has happened in racing on the fiat. Three
or four years ago a boy named Frelshon
was killed when his mount fell while
rounding the paddock turn at the same
| track.