Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-10-02

the Meadowbrooke bridge. The accident
was caused by the bursting Of the left
rear tire of the racer. The car took the
air like an aeroplane. clearing the cement
parapet Of the bridge and turning twice
over before 1t crashed to the ground
Bacon was caught under the car as it fell
Stone fell clear, but was picked up I'M
conscious He was rushed TO the Nassau
hospital.
An Unidentified man was run down by
one OF the racing cars running about a
mile and a quarter north of the Hicks
Vile turn. Both the mans legs were
broken and he was badly mangled. The
man was projected into the air, The
racer did not swerve or diminish it's whrl-
wind speed, and almost before the uncon-
scious and mangled spectator had rolled
into a ditch the car had vanished In a dip
of the road. Witnesses TO the accident de-
clared that the mans body was shot as
high as the tops Of the telegraph poles.
AmbuIances kept busy.
As fast as the ambulances and Red Cross
automobiles could run off to the hospitals
with the injured reports of more accidents
were received.
Rounding a Westbury turn at sixty-five
miles an hour, the Pope Hartford No. II,
driven by John Fleming, just nipped
Thomas Miller of College Point as he was
crossing the road. 1t was only a glancing
blow, but It's terrific energy spun Miller
in the air like a ship. breaking his leg
and ribs. He was rushed to the Nassau
hospital and his leg will probably have to
be amputsted. The machine that hit
Miller continued.
Car No "a, the Avalanche, with William
Knipper at the wheel, bore down on the
: tna Noe no
curve. A desperate struggle for position
took place, in which Knpper came out
victorious. but the same instant his car
skidded and in a second was blowing into
the crowd that packed the right side of
the curve In its course It banked into
several automobiles and tore off mud
guards and smashed lamps.
Morris Levinson, POI East Broadway,
who was In the crowd, was knocked down
and his right leg broken. He was removed
to Nassau hospital. Knipper jumped from
his car as soon as he could stop 1t. and
to the side of the injured man. When
Levlnson reached the hospital there were
nine men and two women being cared for
by the surgeons, all victims of the race
They were coming in so fast that II was
impossible to get the names of all.
Ten Cars at the Finish.
Ten cars were in the Vanderbilt race
when the officials declared the contest over
Those besides the three first were Dis
brow's National, No. 81; Mulford's Lozer
No. 2; Fleming's Pope-iartford, No II
Hearne's Benz, No. 7; Mitchelrs Simplex
No II; Hardings Stoddard- Dayton, No. Is
and Dingley's Pope Hartford. No. 22 run
ming In the order named.
The sixth vanderbilt cup race started
AZ 81,
lowering skies. The thirty-one cars en-
tered We're started at fifteen-second inter.
walls.
quarter of million motoring enthusi
asts crowded the edge OF the course alonI
every foot of the twelye-mile circuit, Gag
erly expectant. As was the case last year
two minor events for cars Of comparRtivel,
low power, the WheRtly Hills sweepstakes
and the Massapequa sweepstakes, Wer,
programmed in conjunction with the chic
event. Last year the starters in all thre
events numbered but twenty-five, Will
this year the combined entry list totallet
no less than forty -five-the largest numbe
OF cars ever sent off together in an AmerI
can road race.
The Wander oilt cup entries were sen
away first, They consisted OF cars OF 90
cubic inches piston displacement and under
Inc eHethnts I'f the Nheatly Hill
trophy-cars OF less than SOl cubic inche
piston displacement-were scheduled t
start their flfteen-lap journey Of 1896 mile
an hour later. They were followed in tur
on the program by the third detachment
consisting OF competitors for the MasSa
pequa trophy-cars OF less than 23l cubi
inches piston displacement-whose cours
was ten laps. or 1864 miles
PoIice Advancement. poar
The police arrangements TO guard tn
course proved inadequate and driver afte
driver complained on stopping at the pit
for repairs and supplies that at varlou
points the crowd had overlooked into tn
roadway and could not be kept back. 10
Dawson, driver of No 25 Harmon stoppe
in his fourteenth round, his nerves utteri
unstrung and tears oOuTsiug down hi
cheeks. At the time he was under the in
preston he had struck one OF the spec
tators at the westbury turn Later h
was told he had merely grazed a boy in
fnoting no hurt OF consequence and b
resumed the contest in a more cheerfl
frame OF mind
When Knipper in the Lancia came
grief his car crashed into two automobile
and a crowd Of spectators. Knipper saw n
car was getting away from him an
tammed on the brakes His sudden sto
saved all but one spectator, Morris Levin
Of Manhattan, who had his leg broken an
was thought TO be internally injured.
As the big cars were finishing the tweI
teth round the racers In the Massapequ
class completed the ten laps prescribed an
retired from the field William Endieott
the No. 81. Cole, winninS