The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-02
Four Lives Are Sacrificed to the Speed Mania and
 Others Will Die
HARRY GRANT WINS CUP
 WITH HIS ALCO CAR
Louis Chevrolet, One of the Most Dar- ing Drivers, Ia Laid Up in n Hos- pitaI and Says That He Will
 Never Race Again


 of the sixth running of the Vanderbilt cup race:
 The killed:
 Mathew R. Bacon, mechanician for Harold Stone. Killed when Columbia car No. 1e plunged over bridge spanning Westbury road.
 Charles Miller, mechanician for Louis Chevrolet, killed when car left the course and struck touring ear.
 Ferdinand d'zubia, New York manager of Hartford company, killed in early morning smash upon way to race.
 Edward Lynch, run down after race. died in hospital.
 Injured:
 Harold A. Stone, driver of the Colum- bia car, both legs broken, internal in- juries may die.
 Mrs. Ferdinand d'Zubia, both legs broken, condition critical.
 William Knipper, driver Lancia car broken leg.
 V. Padula. driver Abbott-DetroIt, bruised.
 Louis Chevrolet, driver Marquette- Buick, left arm broken
 James Nelson, mechanician for Arthur Chevrolet. leg broken.
 Thomas Miller. struck by Pope-Hart- 1OrQ car, bkul IIdCtulSus ihJuiOo III formally, may die.
 C. N Kittrell, mechanician car No. 27. shock and contusions.
 Frank Toplia, hurt in early morning smash, will recover.
 Charles Gromucci, the Toplia chauf- feur, bruised.
 Harry Haggedorn, spectator, hit by Dawsons car; condition serious.
 Morris Levinson, spectator, struck by Knipper's car, leg broken.
 Cornell Reid, spectator. leg broken.
 Mrs. Gussie Heidtmann, spectator, cut and bruised. Mrs. LiMian Roos. arm broken. Mrs. Martha Roos, cut and bruised. Joseph Cook. scalp wound. William Peterson, knocked unconscious by flying tire from wheel.
 Thomas Sommers and Edward H. Brown, injured In d'zubis accident.
 New York October 1.--(Special.) 1.-Two records were gained by today's Wander bilt cup race-one of the most terrific speed and daredevil driving witnessed on the Long Island course; the other of the ghastliest killing and mairning ever perpetrated anywhere in the name of sport The first was responsible for the second
 Sixty-five and one-tenth miles an hour was the speed maintained by Harry Grant, who triumphed in an Alec car just as he did last year. Four deaths, four cases of fatal Injury and 19 affairs of serious wounding were the results of the speed mania that impelled Grant and the other 29 drivers and that attracted to the scene of their wild flight some 17b.000 persons.
 Matthew Bacon, mechanician of the Co., lumbia car, met instant death while he and his driver, Harold Stone, were en- toT14 fka I cof by their foemen of the wheel. Seeing e car overriding them near Meadow brook Bacon urged Stone to do better than the 60-mIe gait he was then mak- ing. Stone did and then whether hls nerve failed him or something went wrong may never be known, he did not turn quite accurately enough while en- tering upon bridge which carries the. course over a country road.
 The machine plunged through an iron guard raii and shot out and down drop of 30 feet, whirling over and over. Bacon flung clear. landed upon his head and broke his neck. Stone. mere boy of 20, and bridegroom of only few weeks, was caught beneath the ponder ous machine. Ills leg was crushed. later amputated and he may die. If he lives he will always be cripple
 All See LifsIe~s Body
 This was in the very first lap of the raoe Every driver passing the spot dur ing the next ten laps was obliged to look upon Bacon's lifeiess body with the dread contortions of the neck. Heart iessly 1t was left uncovered. The drivers looked perforce. but not a fraction of mile per hour did their speed decrease. Matt Bacon dead! It was part of tho game.
 Charles Miller, mechanicfan for Louis Chevrolet of the Marquette Buick. this tair being the most daring of all, some times averaging 75h miles an hour. was killed near Hicksville He and Chevrolet had been In the lead for lap after lap, breaking all records for road racing. Trouble put them out for time. Resuming. they worked like nends, taking the chances of mad men
 Cutting a corner finally, they skidded of the cement course and crashed into a touring car that was standing along side the road. Miller, low crouched over his pressure pump was hurled forward head first. The racer over turned on top of him and he was life less when they took him out Chevrolet. with a broken collar bone. and full of cuts and bruises, was tossed 30 feet. He will live.
 Ferdinand d Zubia, general sales manager In New York for the Pope Hartford automobile, died for speed, too, but was not granted the mercy of an immediate end. His company had two machines entered in the con- test. Starting out from town in his own touring car with his wife and friends to cheer his entrants. he drove overfast to gain good position by the grandstand. But the road was strange to him. At Westbury he en- countered aI unexpected turn. He could not make 1t. His machine struck telegraph pole and was overturned. He was crushed and mangled beneath IT, and died in agony in the Nassau County hospital 30 minutes afterward. D'Zubia's wife and friends were wound. ed, some perhaps fatally.
 Close Contest for Cup
 As a race, the sixth Vanderbilt cup contest was ono of the most exciting
 
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