The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1910-10-06
AUTO RACE KILLS
and MAINS MANY
OF PARTICIPANTS
Two Men Killed Outright and .
Third Will Probably Die as
Result of Injuries
Received.

ErHaEN 44N.r4
Long Island Motor Parkway. Oct A.
With dead and wounded marking
nearly every mile of the course. the
sixth Vanderbilt cup rae closed today
with Harry Grant, driving a 100
power Alec. a winner by the narrow
margin of 25 seconds. Joe Dawson
driving a Marmon, was second. one
minute and six second ahead Of john
Aitken, in a National.
BY his victory today. Grant repeats
his exploit OF last.year, when he cap
tured the cup in q car of the same
mako. The winners time for the
! 10 minutes and IS seconds, or an aver
age OF IS 1-5 miles an hour, q new
American record.
Horror Accompanies Race.
The race was marked by fatalities
second only to the Paris-Madrid race.
Harold Stone. Of Los Angeles
driver of a Columbia car, sustained
after the acc started. Both legs are
broken and he Is injured internally,
At the hospital 1t was sal his re-
covery is doubtful.
Charles Miller. mechanician Of the
Marquette-Buick car. driven by Louis
collision with a touring car along the
route.
Ferdinand De zubia, New York
manager for the Pope-Hartford COM
on his way down to the race. The
number Of accidents, short of fatal
tiles, ran to scores.
From a sporting point OF view this
race was thrilling. There is no doubt
1t will go down in the annals OF au-
tested long distance event ever held
over open country roads.
Was Revolving Spectacle.
Judged by Its cost in killed and
MANNED, however, the race was q re-
voting spectacle and q severe arraign-
ment of the manner in which 1t was
conducted.
Almost at once the i~nadequacy Of
the preparations was tragedically made
plain. On the first time around Har-
old Stone, driving the No. IL Column
bia, met serious IL not fatal injury
under his overturned car, his mocha
.nician, Matthew r. Bacon, of Atlanta,
Ga. at the same time suffering injuries
from which he died shortly sftsrward.
Those near at the time say that the
D~vercrowding Of the course forced Stone
Into q ditch.
The second fatality among the racers
was even moro tragic. Louis Chevro-
let. driving the Marquette-Buick, ran
full tilt into a touring a parked at
the side of the road, killing his mecha-
nician, Charles Miller. Three men and
two women watching the race from the
body Of the touring car were hurled
put and seriously hurt, the car itself
crump!ing up like paper under the ter
ci1c impact.
The horror of this last tragedy had
hardly passed when word came that
the Lancia n the Mercer car had left
the road and brought up q heap Of scrap
iron against telegraph poles, injuring all
| four. 0~nclna nt9 Ak if This wnra- mot
enough, Joe Dawson. going like a cam
non ball in car No. 25, ran full into
the crowd that barred his way at the
Westbury turn and sped on, leaving
an apparently ~lifeless body stretched
across the road. This man was Henry
Haggerdorn, a clerk employed by q To-
cal automobile firm. 1t is believed his
injuries are fatal.
Was a Triple Event.
The race, as was the case last year,
was run as a triple event. not only the
cars for the vanderbilt cup competing,
but cars in two other detachments as
well. This brought As machines on the
course
events was the wheatley Hills sweep
stakes. which was won by ]. r. Gal
nav, driving a Fal car. W. H
Pearce, also driving a Fal car, finished
In the Massapoqua trophy race the
victory went to William Endicott
driving a Cole car. Mortimer Roberts
driving an Abbott Detroit, was second
Ten cars were In the Vanderbilt race
when the officials declared the con.
test over. These, besides the three
first, were Disbrow's National. No. 81.
Mulford's Lozier, No. q; Fleming!
Pope-Hartford, No. IT; Hearnes' Benz
No. Z: Mitchell's Simplex, No. II
Harding's STANDARDIZATION, No. 10
and Dinylpy'E Pone-Ha rtforS No %
running in the order named.