The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-11-07
ROOSEvELT'S CAR
. INFATAL SMASHUP
Cousin OF the Ex-President Fig
ures in Automobile
Accident.
HIS CHAUFFEUR KILLED
Race in Ninety-Horsepower Ma
chimes Ends When One
Turns Turtle.

'Tsnecial TO The TImes-DIspatch.

Specldl 10 netliIIleS-DIsPdtCH.J
New York, November 6.-When John
Ellis Roosevelt, a cousin of EXPIRES
ident Roosevelt ana lawyer of this
city, attempted to drive his powerful
automobile ahead of one owned and
driven by Henry Sanderson, a broker,
whose office is at 2 Wall Street, and
who is a member of the Metropolitan
Club, while the two, each accompanied
by friends from New York. were rae.
ing their machines at a high speed
over the state Road three miles west
of Montgomery, Orange county. this
morning the forward axle of Mr..
Roosevelt's car broke at the knuckle
on the left side. the car whirled in.
a half somersault into the ditch and
then skidded on the top of the tonneau
for fully fifty feet.
Alexander z. Ehbel, who lived at Al
east Twent. fifth Street, and was Mr.
Roosevelt's chauffeur was instantly
killed John T. sill. a retired mer
chant, who lived at the Metropolitan
Club, had both arms broken short
distance above the wrists; George II
Robinson, of New Rochelle. sustained
a fractured rib. and possibly internal
injuries, and Mr. Roosevelt, who was
knocked unconscious by the fall from
the overturning car, had his head and
face badly lacerated.
A farmer, who happened to be some
distance behind the two cars minute
before the accident occurred, and was
one of the first to reach the over
turned machine, said that the two cars
seemed to him to be making little
less than. sixty miles an hour when
Mr.. Roosevelt's car took the leap into
the air. The accident to Mr.. Roose-
yelt,s car came just at the minute that
he was taking the side of the road in
an effort to pass the car Which was
driven by Mr.. Sanderson. The front
wheel struck soft spot in the hard
oiled road, and the breaking of the
forward axle followed instantly
Race Is Started.
When. the two automobiles struck the
fine road beyond Allard's Corner, II
seems that a friendly rivalry sprung
j5up between Sanderson, whose ninety.
lthorsepower car was in the lead, and
Mr.. Roosevelt who did not purpose ia
take any Of Sandereons dust when he
had car Of the same capacity, Sew
/, eral farmers heard the screen of San
derson's siren and pulled off the road
\ none too soon, as the leading car
whirled by.
/ NIr. Roosevelt's car gained on San
| derson. and on straight road, with
lno obstructing vehicles in sight as lnr
| as he could see. MI. Roosevelt attempts
1 ed to make the swing and pass the
! car ahead OF him. 1t was Just then
| that the right front wheel sank in a
| small patch Of loose sand. filing a
/ depression in the roadway. There was
| a violent wrench, the car skiddcd for
fraction of second, then the axle
snapped and the big machine turned
l turtle.
Mr.. Roosevelt, A,r. sill and Nlr p
binson We're all thrown far ahead and
clear OF the car when 1t turned. l1hbel
I the chauffeur, who was sitting In the
front seat beside Mr. Roosevelt, evi-
i IDENTIFY had some portion OF his cloth
ling caught by the steering Wheel for
! when the machine turned he was un-
derit The wreck Of the automobile
! plowed up the hard roadbed for dis
tance Of almost fifty feet before u
, came to q stop squarely In the middle
iaof the road. and at right angles 'o
Il.