New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-10
CYCLE VICTIMS SEVEN
Newark Death List Increases,
with Two Critically Hurt.
INQUIRY is UNDER WAY
Police Say Motordrome Owners
Took Every Precaution
Against Accident.

Seven persons are dead and two more
are IN critical condition as result
Of the motorcycle fatality at the Walls
burg Motordrome, in Newark sunday
afternoon. An investigation Of the affair
was begun yesterday By Captain Nogeh
Of the Newark police. He reported that
every precaution had been taken by the
owners Of the motordrome. and from MS
talks with some OF the mortorcycTsts
who have used the track he SAID M
was convinced that the course was one
of tic safest In the country. Tie saio
the deaths were purely accidental, ana
ne could sec no evidence for the BASIS
OF criminal complaint. William ~.
Mckenzie, the Essex county physician
said there would be no inquest.
The accident will be brought before the
September grand jury. which comes IN
to-day. according 10 Andrew Van Bar
com, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney OF
Essex County. In the absence Of Wilour
A. Mott. the Prosecuting Attorney, VINO
Is i'm Vermont on his vacation, Mr.. van
Blarcom visited the motordrome yester-
day.
go looked over the ground and was
= t'uded that there was no basis for
complaint charging manslaughter, he
said. THE facts. however. will be
brought before the grand jury upon Mr..
Motifs return. and II the jury sees NJ
to indict IT may do So"
Mayor Haussllng has promised 10 do
all he can to aid the city authorities II
an investigation Is 10 be made.
Il have seen tho motordrome track,
he said, and II II almost inconcelyable
TO me, even now, that such an accident
could have happened there. 1t is evident
that motorcycle racing Is a sport whose
possibilities OF danger are not fully com
pretended. IL was an awful calamity
especially in view OF the fact that the
dead and injured were so young. We
do not want anything like It to ever
occur in Newark again"
George Cross. president Of the Motor
drome company. was much depressed
after the tragedy.
I'VE did everything We could 10 avert
such an accident" he said THE track
was built three feet above the dead line.
and that part above the line was straight
up and down. and the top was slightly
curved inward. Above that were heavy
joists and hog wire. It seemed impos-
sible for a rider To get to the top OF the
track. to say nothing about dashing into
the spectators"
Or. PASCAL who hurried TO the aid
OF Eddie" Ilasha. advanced the theory
yesterday that the rider was suddenly
stricken blind before his machine dashed
into the crowd He said he had treated
Hasha for eye trouble. caused. he thought,
by pressure OF blood on the brain
during his high speed demonstrations.
The body Of Albright. the other rider
who was killed, was sent 10 the under
taking rooms OF C. T. Earle, at No. AS
Nostrand avenue. Brooklyn, yesterday
The funeral services will take place there
this afternoon. after which the body will
be sent to Denver for burial. Mrs. Hasha
claimed the body OF her husband, at
Holly's morgue yesterday afternoon. and
Will take IL TO Waco. Tex, to-day for
burial
Besides Hasha and Albright, the COM
plete list OF the dead follows:
THE DEAD.
FOEHNER, Thomas. fourteen wears. OF No.
il5 Sixteenth avenue, Newark skull tract
ursd.
FISCHER. Edward. seventeen years Of no.
as Thirteenth avenue. Newark; skull
fractured
DALEY. Russell. twelve years OF No ~
Grove Terrace. Iryington: fractured skull
and internal injuries.
BARNETT. William. twenty years OF No.
zoo Bergen street. Newark; fractured skull
LOEFING. James. fourteen years OF No. oS5
Nineteenth avenue, Irvinkton, fractured
skull.
The condition Of Charles T. Williams.
OF No. 80 Orange avenue. Newark, and
Michael Harazde, OF No. 10 Highland
Terrace. Newark. both OF whom are at the
City Hospital suffering from fractured
skulls, is critical