Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1911-05-31
HARBOUR WINNIE R
OF INDIANAPOLIS
SPEED CONTEST
ONE MAN KILLED. HALF
DOZEN MANNED IN RACE
Seveny-Five Thousand HyS-
tericaI People Watch Contest
Probably UneQuaIIed In tx
element Since Ancient Rome
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Motor Speedway. Indianapolis. Ind,
May S0.-One life was sacrificed and
several men were injured today in the
first five hundred mile race on a
speedway, won BY Ray Harroun driv-
ins a Marmon car in six hours forty
one minutes and eight seconds.
Closely pressing Harround for vic
tory We're Ralph Mulford. with Lo-
zier. who finished second, and David
Bruce Brown, inea Fiat, a good third.
| Seventy-seven thousand shouted
! encouragement to the forty pilots who
started the race at 10 o'clock this
morning. and with unflagging enthusi-
, asm cheered the leaders In the last
laps and watched the field pound
around the course in division of the
lesser honors.
| In the most serious accident OF the
! day ). 7. Dickson of Chicago. mechan-
| ician for Arthur Grenler driving an
Amplex. lost his life In an upset ON
the back stretch. The race had been
on but few minutes and the AM
| pick was In It's thirtieth mile when the
rim of one of the front wheels flew
/ off.
| The car twisted on the track, .hurl-
ing Grenier and Dickson from their
seats. Dickson was thrown against
| fence twenty feet away and was ter
ribly mangled. He was killed In
stantly.
| Grenier was unconscious when pick
ed up and IL was feared he had con-
| cussion of the brain. but when reviV-
! ed at the field hospital II WAS found
his only injury was n fractured arm.
| Succeeding accidents thrilled the
immense crowds, which, with nerves
at high tension, watched the cars
flash by together, and momentarily
expected carnival of death as the
cors swept around the course in
groups at terrific speed. Men injur-
led In the mishaps We're:
| Dave Lewis, mechanician for Teddy
Tetselaff Uozier), right leg broken
near hip.
J. Harry II. Knight. driver of West
colt. breast bruised and possibly in
ternal injuries.
John I. Clover. knights mechani-
clan, body bruised
\ Bob Evans, meehanician for Jack
Tower tJackson). body bruised when
he leaped from car in panic.
John Wood, mechanician for Joe
Jagersburger (Case), run over and
badly bruised.
| The crowd was too large to be con-
| trolled by the militia and the hun
dreds of policemen posted about the
grounds. The spectators swarmed
across the infield when Dickson was
killed ard pressed close about his
body and that of the unconscious
Grenier. Soldiers fought to clear
space for the surgeons when the am
bulance arrived.
The throng was wild with excite
ment after the first accident and
rushed back and forth over the field
when other accidents were reported.
In the stand men and women were
on their feet for hours. cheering their
| favorites and groaning with appre-
henslon when cars crashed into cars
or ran off the inner edge Of the track.
/ In the earlier part Of the race the
track was so filled with the whirllng
cars Of the contestants that the races
seemed but an exhibition OF speeding
automobiles The winner was hidden
in the mass At the l50 miles Bruce
Brown had set a new record, regard
less OF classification. His time was
1912, as against Dawson's old mark
of 2:01:09.
When Harroun took the lead In the
one hundred and ninetieth mile the
race took form and then the crowds
interest was heightened and divided
between the contestants and catostro-
phies that were momentarlly impend-
Ing.
The cars began to cast their tires,
burned out by the fierce grind over
the speedway's brick pavement. Steer
ing gears began to give way. Directly
In front of the grandstand Joe Jagers-
burgers Case car got away from him
and switched back and forth across
the track.
Wood, the mechanleian, leaped out
and fell and the car passed over him.
He lay in a path of death, for other
cars were rushing upon him. All
swerved safely as he rose and stag
gered TO the trackside, with the ex-
ception of Harry Knights Westcott,
which plunger into the inner fence,
threw out Knight and Glover, and ca
reened against Herbert Tytle's Apper-
son, turning II over.
scream from woman when the
race was half over faced the crowd
In the grand stand toward the north
end Of the home stretch. Louis Dis
brow's Pope Hartford had thrown
tire and sweryed In front of Tetselaffs |
Lozler. collision followed In which |
the rear wheels OF Disbrow's car
were torn Off and the Lozer turned |
turtle. 1'ctselaff's mechanieian was
caught under the ear and his leg !
broken.
The foar OF the motors, belching |
flame and smoke from the exhausts, |
and the continuous cheering of the |
multitude in the grand stand and |
bleachers was dcafening as the race |
grew into the last hundred miles.
An overwrought woman In box |
tainted and fell from her chair and |
the incident almost caused panic In |
the nervous crowd. Hysterical screams |
of women In the southern grand stand |
when Burmans Benz cast a tire over |
the railing were heard above the |
deeper roar of the grand stand and |
bleachers.
In the latter part OF the race acci-
dents ceased and the spectators be-
came composed and centered atten-
tion on the struggle that Harroun was
wagine. Shouts of encouragement |
for him rose In steady erescendo.
and when he swept into the home /
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