The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1911-05-31
HarrOun Wins
In MarmOn
Completed 500 Miles at Indian.
apOlis in 6 Hours and IL
Minutes.
FATALITY OCCURRED
EARLY IN THE RACE
big crowd Thirsted for Accidents
and Raced From One Spill
to Another.

MOTOR SPEEDWAY. INDIANAP-
OILS. Ind. May 3O.-One life was
sacrificed and several men we're IN.
1ured today in the first 6oO-mile
motor race on speedway. The
great test OF skill and endurance wns
won by Ray Harroun, driving a Mar.
mon car. in 6:41:0S. Closely press-
ing Harroun for tho victory were
Ralph Mulford with Lozier. who
finished SECOND. and David Bruce
Brown. who drove Fiat to third
place.
Many thousand spectators roared
announcement to the forty pilots that
started the race at 10 O'Clock this
morning. and with unnaSging en-
thusiasm cheered the leaders in the
last lap OF the race and watched the
field pound around the last course to
decide the lesser honors.
Death Claims Victim.
In the most serious accident OF the
day. S. i. Dickson OF Chicago.
mechanician for Arthur Grenier. driy-
Ing an AmpleX. lost his life in an tp-
set on the back stretch The race
had been going only a few minutes
and the Amplex was in its thirtieth
mile when the rim OF one of the front
wheels flew of. The car twisted
and hoped about on the track. hurl-
Ing Greiner and Dickson from their
seats. Dickson was thrown against a
fence twenty feet from the car and
terribly mangled. He was killed In
stantly.
Greiner was knocked unconscious,
but after he had been revived at the
field hospital, Il was found that his
only injury was a fractured arm.
Series Of Accidents.
a series OF succeeding accidents
thrilled the immense crowd. pitched
TO n fearful expectancy. and kept
Thousands OF eyes strained on the
track for a fatal collision that seemed
imminent whenever several cars
flashed close to each other. Men in.
jured in the mishaps were as fol-
lows:
Dave Lewis. mechaniclan for Teddy
Tetzlaff CLozierJ; right leg broken
near hip.
Harry Knight. driver OF Festcott:
breast bruised and possibly internal
injuries. 4
John T. Glover. knights mechanl.
clan: body bruised.
Bob Evans. mechanician for Jack
Tower (JacksonJ; body bruised when
he leaped from car.
John Wood. mechanician for Joe
Jacersburger (CaseJ: run over and
bruised after leaping from car.
The crowd WAS too big 70 be con-
trOlled by the company OF militia and
the hundreds OF special policemen
posted about the grounds. The spec
tatbrs swarmed across the inheld
when Dickson was killed and pressed
close about his body and that OF the
unconscious Greiner. Soldiers had 10
club their guns 70 clear a space for
the surgeons when the ambulance ar.
rived.
Crowds Thirst for Accident
The throng was wild with excite
ment and rushed back and forth over
The field when other accidents we're
reported from one point or another
around the two and one-half mile
track
At the 15Omlle mark Bruce Brown
set new record. regardless OF classi-
fcation. IFS time was 1:b9.12. az
against Dawson's old mark OF 2:Oi:o9.
iiarroun took the lead IN the 10Oth
mile and the race took form from what
had appeared 90 be a parade OF ma.
chimes. Then cars began TO cast
firos. burned out by the fierce grind
over tho brick pavement. Steering
gears bcEan 20 give way. In front Of
The Ruud stand Joe Jagersburgcr'a
Case car got away from him and
switched back and forth across the
track. Wood. the mechanicinn. lcaped
out and fell. The car passed over
him. other cars Vero rushing on him.
but all swcrvcd safely by as no rose
and staggered from the track. except
Harry Knights Wcstcoft This car
. H.
knirht and Glover and carconed
against Herbert Lyttle's Apperson
turning % over
Car Turns. Turtle.
When tho race was half ovor. Louis
Nsbrow's Pope Hartford threw a lire
lt tho entrance OF tho home stretch
md sworvcd I'm front OF Tetzlarrs
Iozicr. In tho collision. tho rear