The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-09-05
Emil Weist, II, Loses Con-
troll of His Machine in Five
Mile Race and 1t Dashes
Into the Fence.
PHYSICIANS STATE
LAD WILL RECOVER
Father of the Boy Witnessed
the Accident and Became
Frenzied with Grief Big
Crowd Was Present.

1t was a wise move on the part-o OF
the management of the Richmond Mo-
torcycle club to have an ambulance at
the driving park yesterday afternoon
during the motorcycle races. witness
ed by crowd OF between 1000 and.
5000 people.
Emil Weist. in the second lap Of the
five mile race. sprung into the lead Of
the madly rushing field while on the.
straightaway of the north section Of
the track. Gaining this position Welst
guided his machine, an Excelsior, With
his left hand and began to pump oils
into the engine with his right hand
while the motorcycle sped on at =
instant the young man lost control and
the machine crashed into fence post,
but this did not check its onslaught. Il
plowed It's way through the fencing,
breaking eight poles and finally hurl-
ing its rider into a ditch, where he
lay a senseless, bleeding. broken OBJ
ject. George Bayer. riding directly be-
hind Weist swerved his machine Just
in time to prevent colliding with tho
wrecked machine.
Nature Of Injuries.
weist. who is Il years old and en-
ployed at the Light Inspection Car
company. Hagerstown. 10 very serious
" injured but Dr.. Kinsex wh0 ntkend-
ed him Immediately after thu accident. j.
and accompanied him to the hospital.
stated today that he IL confident tho
young man will recover and will not
be cripple, as was reported last
night Weist's left arm was fractured
between the shoulder and the elbow:
his left leg broken between the knee
and the hip: the hip was dislocated
and the knee dislocated. The flesh Of
his left leg from the hip to the knee
was badly lacerated by splinters from
the broken bone.
When Weist's machine dashed into
the fence post the crash could be.
heard all over the park. and . cry Of
horror arose from the crowd, although
many attended the races In the expec-
tation Of witnessing just such an acci-,
dent OF course there was the usual
people to the scene of the accident. but
they were held in check by the track
| guards.
But there was one man In the crowd
that rushed to where the bleeding. I
broken rider lay who was not attract
ed to the scene by curiosity. He was
Conrad Weist, father OF the injuredi
young man.
| "Oh my God, my boy IL killed. Let
me to him." he moaned. as he fought
his way to the side of his son.
He tried to throw himself on the boy.
fondle him and whisper words OF an
guished love In his ear, but guard
firmly, but gently seized the frenzied
parent and led him away and talked
with him until he had regained his.
composure A few minutes later young
| Weist's sister and brother rushed to
his side. sobbing their grief. hut they
were held back. As quickly as possi-
! BILE Weist was removed to the hospital
in an ambulance and at once placed on
the operating table. He showed re-
markable fortitude and only when he
was placed into and removed from
the ambulance did groans escape his
firmly set lips.
| On the operating table the three
physicians who attended him found
the fractured leg bone had been d1v-
en- with such force into the hip socket
THAT the socket had been cracked. II
a'as with the greatest dihiculty that
the broken bone was set and the dislo-
|cated tip of the bone placed back in
the broken socket.
/ Races 4 Success.
Except for the unfortunate accident
to Emil Weist the races were q COM
plete success, and the street car COM
Ipany handled the big crowd quite sat
isfactorily. The race between the two
Elwood girls. Misses Masters and
Culp, was novel but tame, the former
winning The summary of events fol-
lows:
Five. Mile Novice Handicap-Bayer.
Al P. Indian. first: Meyers H. p.
Indian, second; Needham 4 H. p.
RacycIe, third. Time min. % sec
10 MILE Handicap-Shute 5 II. p. In-
dian, first; Tangeman I H. p In
4 dian second; Baker. H P. Indian
Third Time ten Minis 55 sec.
10 Mile Handicap II. p. Baker, In-
dian, first; Craignead Harley David
son, second Time IL min. 19x sec.
10 Mile Handicap--5 and H. p
/ Shute, H. p. Indian, first: Tango
man H. P. Indian, second: Meyers,
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