The Sentinel=record., 1911-05-31
ONE KILLED
 IN BIG RACE
RAY HARRouN IN A HARMON. IS WINNER OF THE 500
 MILE AUTO RACE.
Dickson of Chicago, Killed and Five Others Suffer Injures-Time Was 6 Hours, Al Minutes,
 8 Seconds.

Motor Speedway, Indianapolis. lud May 30-For fame. fortune and glory Of the automobile, one life was sacri- feed and several men were injured to. day, in the first five hundred mile race on the speedway the greatest test of skill and endurance in the his tory of sport of moter racing. won by Ray Harpun. driving Marmon car, in the time of six hours. forty one minutes, and eight seconds. Closely pressing Harroun for the victory were Ralph Mulford, with Lozier. who finished second. and David Bruce Brown who drove his Fiat under the wire good third
 Seventy-seven thousand persons roared encouragement to the forty pilots that started the race at 1O:OO o'clock this morning and with un- flagging enthusiasm, encouraged the leaders in the last laps of the race and watched the field pound around the course in division of the lesser honors.
 In the most serious accident of the day. s. P. Dickson. of Chicago. me chanician for Arthur Grenier, driving an Amplez, lost his life in an unset on the back stretch. The race had been on but few minutes and the Amplex was in it's thirtieth mile when the rim of one of the front wheels flew off The car twisted In mighty spasm. hurling Grenier and Dickson from thei'' seats. Dickson was thrown against fence twenty feet from the car and was terribly mapgled He was killed instantly. Greiner was unconscious when he was picked up and 1t was feared he had concussion of the brain, but when he revived at the field hospital 1t was found his only injury was fractured arm.
 series of succeeding accidents kept the immense crowd pitched high to a fearful expectancy and kept thousands of eyes strained on the track for 2 carnival of death that seemed eminent whenever group Of cars flashed o,ose to each other. Men injured in the mishaps were as fol lows:
 Dave Lewis. gaechanician for Teddy Tetzlaf. fLozierh right leg broken.
 Harry Knight driver of Westcott, breast bruised and possible internal injuries
 John T. Glover. Knights mechanl- clan. body bruised.
 Bob Evans. mechanician for Jack Tower (Jackson). bsdy bruised when he ieaped from car in panic.
 John Wood, mechanician for Joe Jagefsbudger (Case). run over ana badly bruised.
 The crowd was to big to be contrclI- ed by the company of militia and the hundreds of special policemen posted about the grounds. The spectators swarmed across the infield when Dickson was killed and pressed close about his body and that of the un conscious Grenier. Soldiers fought to clear a space for the surgeons when the ambulance arrived.
 The throng was wild with excite menf after the first accidents and rushed back and forth over the fiela wben other accidents were reported from one point or another. In the stands men and women were on the'r feet for hours. cheering their favorites and grooming apprehension when cars crashed into cars or ran off the inner edge of the track.
 At 15o miles Bruce-Brown had see a new record, regardless of ciass'ii'" t;oo His time was 1:59:12' against Dawson's old mark of 2;Ol;os when Harroun took the lead in the isV'h mile the race took form and then 'ne crowd,s interest was heightened anu divided between the contest ana cat astrophes hat were momen'ari'y "" pending. . The cars began to cast tneir 'i'0s' burned out by the fierce grind ose' the spaedway's brick pavement. steeering geers began to give way. Directly in front of the grands'anu Joe Jargesberger's Case car got away from him and switched back and ior'n aeross the track. Wood. the mechan'' clan lenpetl out. feli and the car pass ed over him. All swerged safely by as