The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1910-10-03
DEATH ATTENDS
AUTO CUP RACE
Vanderbilt Contest Most Re-
Voting Spectacle.


Several Persons Killed and Dozens In.
jured During Progress of Race and
Others Lose Their Lives or Sustain
Hurts En- Route to Track-Harry r.
Grant, the Winner, Averages Over
Sixty Miles an Hour for Distance.
Long Island Motor Parkway, Oct. 3
With dead and wounded marking
nearly every mile of the course the
sixth Vanderbilt cup race closed with
Harry Grant, driving a 120-horsepow.
er Alec, a winner by the narrow mar
gin of twenty seconds. Joe Daw
son, driving a Marmon, was second,
one minute and six seconds ahead OF
Joseph Aitken, at the wheel of Ma
tional
BY his victory Grant repeats his
exploit of last year, when he captured
the cup in car of the same make.
The winners time for the 27S.0S
miles of the course was hours, Is
minutes and 5S seconds, or an aver
age of siXty-fiye and one-fifth miles
an hour, which establishes a new
American record The race was
marked by a series of fatalities and
accidents second only to the memor-
able Paris-Madrid race and it's tragic
results.
From a sporting point of view alone
the race was thrilling There is no
doubt it will go down in the annals of
automobiling as the most hotly con-
tested long distance event ever held
over open country roads.
Most Revolving Spectacle.
Judged by its cost in killed and
manned, however, the race was re-
voting spectacle and deserves a Sc
we're arraignment of the manner in
which it was conducted
Harold Stone, driving car No. IL,
Columbia, in the Vanderbilt cup race.
was killed and his mechanican, Bacon.
was picked up unconscious when the
car turned turtle near Hicksville.
Car No. AZ, Mercer, ran into tele-
graph pole at Meadowbrook bridge, in
juring the mechanician possibly fa.
tally
Ferdinand DZiuba, New York man.
ager for the Pope Hartford company,
was killed on his way to the Wander
bilt cup race and five other persons
who were in the car with him were
injured, Mrs. D'Ziuba, his wife, seri.
ously. His car struck a telegraph
pole at Westburg. L. l., and was
wrecked.
Car No. II, rounding a turn at West
Ter of College Point, l.. |. Miller was
seriously injured. He was rushed to
the Nassau hospital for amputation of
his leg. The car was unharmed and
swept on without stopping
Driver and Mechanician Hurt.
The Abbott-Detroit, No. Sc, entered
in the Massapequa class, struck tele-
graph pole near Westbury, throwing
John Barber and seriously injuring
both. Padula's hurts are believed to
be fatal.
The mystery of the disappearance
of the Columbia, driven by Harold
Stone, which had not appeared again
at the grand stand after the start,
was explained in whispers by the of
ficials, but was rigidly kept from
those in the grand stand, where
Stones bride of a few weeks sat anx-
iously waiting his passing
Stone, while pushing the big Co
luLbia at better than seventy miles
en- hour, jumped the road near Hicks
vile, overturned the car, meeting
death under the ton of twisted and
battered metal. Mason, his mechani-
clan, was picked up unconscious, with
several ribs broken and internal in
juries that caused his hurried removal
to the Nassau hospital in critical
condition.
Car No. "a, the Lancia. driven by
William Knipper, turned over at Mas
sapequa Lodge, injuring August Gui
chard, the mechanician Knipper was
unhurt.
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