Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-05-31
Several Injured During Mad
hirl About Course hi.
Spectators Become hysteri'
cal and Crowd Track

SPEEDWAY, INDIANAPOLIS, May
30.-Ray Harround, driving q Marmon
car, won the 5O0.mile race today in
6 hours Al minutes seconds. Null
ford OLozier) second, and Bruce
Brown (Fiat) third.
The first ten men to finish the
race with their winnings follow:
Ray Harroun tMarmon), 100000.
Ralph Mulford Lozier), $4,000.
d. Bruce-Brown (Fiat), $4,000.
Spencer Wishart (Mercedes), $4,000.
Ralph de Palma (Simplex), $500.
Charles Merz (NationaD, $1,000.
VIII. Turner (Amplex), $500.
Harry Cobe (Jackson), $500.
Fred Belcher (Knox), 5000.
Hughie Hughes (Mercer), $500.
Seventy-seven thousand people
roared encouragement to the 40 pilots
that started the race at 10 o'clock and
with unflagging enthusiasm cheered
the leaders in the last laps of the
race and watched the field pound
around the course in division of the
lesser honros.
In the most serious accident of the
day, S. P. Dickson of Chicago, mech
anician for Arthur Greiner, driving an
Amplex, lost his life in an upset on the
back stretch. The race had been on
but a few minutes and the Amplex
was in its thirtieth mile when the rim
on one Of the wheels flew off. The
car twisted on the track in a mighty
spasm, hurling the men from their
seats. Dickson was thrown against
a fence 20 feet from the car and was
terribly mangled. He was killed in
stantly.
Greiner was unconsciou when he
was picked up, and it was feared he
had concussion of the brain, but
when he was revived at the field hos
pital it was found his only injury was
a fractured arm.
A series of succeeding accidents
thrilled the immense crowd, pitched
high fearful expectancy and kept
thousands of eyes strained on the
rack for carnival of death that
seemed imminent whenever a group
II cars finished close to each other.
Men injured in the mishaps were
IS follows:
Dave Lewis, mechanician for Teddy
Tetzlaff( Lozier), right leg broken
ear hip.
Harry, Knight, driver of Westcott,
reast bruised and possible internal
INJURIES.
John T. Glover. Knights mechan-
clan, body bruised.
Bob Evans, mechanican for Jack
over (Jackson), body bruised when
e leaped from car in panic.
John Wood, mechanician for Joe
agersburger (Case(, run over and
adly bruised.
The crowd got beyond control of
he militia and policemen posted
bout the grounds, and swarmed
cross the infield when Dickson was
illed, and pressed close about his
ody and that of the unconscious
renier. Soldiers were obliged to use
)rce in order to clear a space for
le surgeons when the ambulance ar
we'd.
The throng was wild with excite
ent after the first accident and
lshed back and forth over the field
hen. other accidents were reported
ON one point or another. In the
:ands men and women were on their
'et for hours, cheering their favor.
es, and grOaning with apprehension
hen cars crashed into cars or ran
+ the inner edge. of the track.
In the earlier part of the race the
ack was so filled with the whirling
RS of the contestants that the race
emed but an exhibition of speeding
The winner was hid
n in the mass. At the $50 miles
had set a new record, re-
rdless Of classification. His time
IS 1882. as against Dawson's old
ark of POI: :09.
When Harroun took the lead in the
9th mile the race took form and then
e crows interest was heightened
ID divided between the contest and
tastrophes that were momentarily
pending.
The cars began to cast their tires,
rned out by the fierce grind over
e speedway's brick pavement. Steer
: gears began to give way. Direct
in front of the grandstand Joe
gersburger's Case car got away
I'M him and switched back and forth
ross the track. Wood. the mechan-
an, leaped out and fell and the car
ssed over him. He lay in a path
death, for other cars were rushing
on him. All swerved by as he rose
d staggered to the track side, with -
, exception of Harry knights
estcott, which plunged to the inner
ice, threw out knight and Glover
1 careened against Herbert Lytle's
person, turning it over.
l scream from women when the .
e was half over faced the crowd in
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