Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1911-08-31
.TWODRivERSO Ole INAUTO RACE.
DAVE BUCK AND MEcHANlclAN
VICTIMS.
Winner Of so5-MiIe Contest Scores
In Four Hours SO
Minutes.

Minutes.
Elgin. ILL.,, Aug. 2S.-The sO5-mile
road race won by Len Zengel In q
National. with Harry Grant second,
and Hugh Hughes third, was not &C.
complished without its toll Of death
and injuries.
Dave Buck. the veteran Chicago au.
tomobile racer, was within eleven laps
Of the finish, and going at the rate
of 81 miles an hour on the back
stretch when his right forward wheel
threw tire. The machine turned a
complete somersault, and Sam Jac-
obs, the mechanician, was killed in
stantly, his neck being broken. Buck
was so badly injured that he died
later in hospital.
Zengels time averaged for the race
Tour miles an hour faster than that
set by milford last year. Grant and
Hughes also averaged nearly that
much better. Milford secured the
prize for the fastest lap, covering the
eight and one-half miles in minutes,
IA seconds.
Summary:
Elgin National trophy for cars un-
der 900 inches displacement; prizes
and cash valued at $4,000 to winner.
Distance, 3O5.O5 miles; S1a miles to
the lap.
First, Len Zengel, National, time
1859.
Second, Harry F. Grant. Alec, time
l:41:5S.
Third. Hugh Hughes, Mercer, time
k:42:O9.
Fourth, Frank Lee, Alec, time (271
miles in 4:45:45).
Fifth, Dave Buck, Pope-Hartford,
(20S miles in 3:58:26).
Sixth, Harry Hartman, Alec (169
miles in 2:34:44).
Zengel's average 66.45 miles an hour.
Carried Down in Accident.
Elgin, ILL.,, Aug. ga score of per-
sons were injured, four seriously,
when sections "a to 10 of the road
race grandstand collapsed. The acct
dent occurred within few minutes
after the last car in the Elgin cup
race, driven by Ralph milford. had
gotten away.
Among the injured were Mrs. Ray
Graham, daughter of Senator William
Lorimer, and daughter-in-law of An
drew Graham, recently candidate for
mayor Of Chicago, and Mrs. Charles
Coey of Chicago, whose eye was bad
ly bruised and her ankle twisted. Mrs.
Graham's leg was broken. This in
Jury, with two others of a similar kind,
were the only one of a serious nature.
The race was stopped at the end Of
the first lap and those who were un-
able to walk were removed to the field
hospital in ambulances.
Milford had reached the back
stretch when the accident occurred.
The seats which fell were of the kind
known as Circus" and were hastily
completed by the Cleveland, Ohio, con
tractor, who had furnished them to
the recent aviation meet.
The stringers on which the seats
rested had been nailed to the pilings,
Instead of being anchored, and the
strain of the crowd proved too heavy
burden. The nails gave way and
the seats, sliding forward with their
burden of humanity, sagged from the
rear.
The whole mass sunk, and the occu.
pants of the seats were thrown in a
huddle in the middle. 1t was remark
able that practically every injury was
done to ankles.
/; AS the stand collapsed a sudden
hush fell. over the field, and here an6
there onlookers gasped out that friends
or relatives were in the accident
When word was megaphoned, nobody
killed." there were cheers and round
/ Of hand clapping.