The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-10-02
Four Are Dead and Nineteen Are Injured
as Result of Running of the
Great Motor Event at
New York.
THREE OF INJURED WILL PROBABLY
SUCCUMB TO THEIR TERRIBLE WOUNDS
Heavy Cars Going at Terrific Rate of Speed
Strike Distractions, Bringing Disaster
Upon Their Occupants

The time OF the three first cars to finish
in the main event exceeded the best time
ever made In an American road race.
! Grant. by covering the 27S0S miles OF
the course III 4 hours II minutes. SIS sec
onds, equivalent TO an average of So 10
miles an nour-establshcd a new Ameri-
can record
Filled With Horror.
But brilliant as was the performance of
! The three winners and thrilling as was
| The race itself. the horror caused by the
wholesale manning and killing which at
| tended IL cast such a deep shadow over
spectators. participants and management
that the crowd dispersed under pail Of
| sorrow
Notwithstanding the appalling loss OF
life 1t was announced that the grand prize
race over the same course would be held
| October 10. Fifteen cars have already
been entered for the event
w: *; Vanderbilt Jr,, donor OF the
Vanderbilt cup. could not he seen tonight
but A. e Pardington, president and gen
eral manager Of the motor parkway, spoke
OF the race only as success. He regret
ted, OF course. the deaths and accidents.
but was inclined TO attribute them main
| " TO carcleSsncsS.
The accidents that caused two Of the
four deaths were sensational In the cx-
treme. The first occurred when the CO.
lumbla car. driven by Harold Stone. sud-
denly burst a tire at the approach OF the
road, and. becoming unmanageabe.
plunged over the parapet, The great ma
chine went twice in midar and
landed on It's side. crushing out the life
OF Mathew K. Bacon. stones mechani-
clan. who was caught under H. stone
himself sustained fractures Of both legs
and Internal injuries. from which it Is
doubtful II he Will recover.
The killing OF Louis Chevrolets mech
auician, Charles Killer. came as the
climax of a mad attempt of Chevrolet to
regain a lead lost through frequent mag
ncto and tire trouble.
Strikes Rut i'll Road.
The daring French driver who earlier
I'm the race had reeled off round after
struck bad rut while going with full
power and landed on three wheels only.
He thcn found the car zig-Zagslng from
side TO side unresponsive TO its steering
gear.
Amid the shrIeks OF horror from the
hundreds assembled at the spot the car
plunged into the fence and swept il
a way Ike much paper. then plowed
deep Into passenger r-laden touring car.
The occupants of the touring car were
tossed high in the air, but all of them
escaped death, Miller was caught in the
wreckage and instantly killed,
Chevrolet owes his life TO the staunch-
ness of his steering wheel, upon which
he kept a firm hold 10 the end. He was
pulled out OF the debris with nothing
more serious than n broken arm.
The third death OF the day did not
occur on the course, but In an accident
en- route to the race Ferdinand D'Hubia.
an automobile man. was the victim. His
wife was seriously hurt, both legs be
ing broken in the smashup. Mrs, DZubia
was II bride OF two weeks.
Louis Chevrolet announced tonight that
he will never race again. lie Is greatly
grieved over the death OF his mechan-
ician.