Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-10-29

ran off the road into deep hole and was
wrecked. He was one of the most en-
thusiastic motorists in the party, as
we'll as being one Of the most prominent
autoists throughout the country. Vari-
Gus reasons are given as the cause of the
accident. The driver says the steering
gear became locked. while others Say it
was case of skid caused by travelling
over the sand at high speed. Mrs. j. P.
Walker and her husband of San Fran
cisco. who was referee of the tour, We're
both seriously but not dangerously in
iured. The former has "A dislocated
shoulder and the later broken collar
bone. The accident occurred about three
miles from Upton, Ga.
IT was generally supposed that this
years totr would be a leisurely and en-
joyable trip from New York to Jackson
vile, but according to reports from the
first day out until the end of the run at
Jacksonville. it was a road race. The
conditions of the run did not call for
great speed. as the time schedule was a
reasonable one. but the moment the driv-
.ers got on the road, 1t is sad, they got
the speed bug and many of them
made the road schedule look foolish. 1t
was this craze for speed which caused
most of the accidents during the early
days of the tour. and the veteran motor
lists remarked time and time again on the
trip south that 1t was a wonder that no
one laG DecN Killed up ~ inc tiIlie "
Chairman Buffers death. According to
local motorist who happened TO be
touring through the Shenandoah valley
when the Gliddenites passed through
Winchester, in conversation witt! the
writer the Gay following an accident
when one of The official cars was demo!-
ished by striking a telegraph pole. It was
Il case of two big touring cars racing
down the valley pike about sixty mics
an hour when the crash came. He saw the
mo tow ..
and he ran his machine over to the s de
of the road III order to give the racers
plenty of room. When the crash came
ii Was fully ten minutes, he SAID, before
the atmosphere cleared from the dust
Fortunately these tw" cars were way in
the rear Of the contesting cars, otherwise
A general mix up might have occurred. As
it was no one was injured. although one
Of the machines was so badly smashed
that it was put out of the running.
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The 1911 Glidden tour will long be re-
menlbered as the biggest affair Of its kind
in the history of. the automobile. There
were seventy-seven cars in line sixty-tour
of which were contest'nS cars. the others
being official and non-conteSting cars.
There were eighteen teams. composed OF
three cars each, which took part III the
tour The first day out every car mn
ished at the night control with per1ect
scores The second day. however the
penalties commenced to occur, and from
that day forth to the end OF the run the
penalties continued to increase, Wh!le
many of the perfect-score cars fell py
the wayside as the tour progressed 1t
was on the fourth day out from New
York that many of the cars met with
misfortune A cloudburst in the vicinity
of Roanoke, Va. the worst which has
visited that section in over score OF
years put a number of the teams out OF
the running not to speak of the heavy
penalties which were incurred by the in
dividual competing cars. The heavy
downpour occurred in the north end Of
the Roanoke valley, just south OF Natural
Bridge. Va The streams and fords were
impassable and the run was considerably
delayed on this account. From Roanoke
southwark the roads were found tn heavy