New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-09
Johnny Albright, Following,
Hits Hasha's Cycle and Is
Fatally Injured-Wives
of Both Men See
the Accident.
CROWD OF 5000 IN PANIC
Many Spectators Leaning Over tho
Rail as Machine Skids Along Top
Moved Down-Parts of Ma
chinery Fly Into Grandstand
Hurting Others.


Hurting Others. :
Six persons were killed and more
than a dozen injured yesterday after
noon at the vailsburg Motordrome,
Newark. when the motorcycle ridden
by Eddy" Hasha. OF Waco. Tex. got
away from him and jumped the railing
about the track where the bleachers
and grandstand join. The motorcycle.
going AT ninety-two miles an hour,
moved down a line OF men and boys
who were leaning over the railing az
the edge Of the track, killing four ami
injuring many.
Hasha was thrown against heavy
upright. His neck was broken and his
skull was fractured. The machine was
racing at more than ninety miles an
hour and the force Of the impact was
terrific
The heavy cycle rolled down the
steeply banked track directly ir front
of the machine ridden by John Al
bright. Albright was unable TO avoid
the other machine because of the great
speed at which he was going, and when
his motorcycle struck it he was thrown
distance OF thirty feet, rolling un-
conscious 10 the bottom OF the embapk-
ment. He died three hours later a.
the City Hospital.
Parts Of the broken machine few into
the grandstand. striking men and boys
and badly injuring them. Many per
sons taken TO the City Hospital and
the German Hospital in Newark were
so badly injured that they were unable
10 give their names. and IL is thought
that the list of dead will be added u
by at least five.
Five thousand See Accident
There were more than five thousand
persons In the grandstand and on the
bleachers, and a state almost OF panic
followed the accident. Among the
spectators were Mrs. Hasha and Mrs.
Albright. Mrs. Hashe tainted when
she saw her husband strike the railing,
revived and learned that Hasha had
been killed. Mrs. Albright had her two
children with her. and when she saw
her husband thrown from his machins
she became frantic. She got over the
railing and Was among the first 10
reach the injured mans side.
The identified dead, besides Hasts
and Albright, are Edward Fischer,
seventeen, of No. As avenue, New
ark, and Thomas Toelkner, fourteen, OF
No. 139 Sixteenth avenue, Newark. a
boy and man who met death were
not identified.
The list OF the injured obtained by
the police at the hospital was:
William Klotze. fifteen years old, of
No 57s South l1th street Newark.
Frederick Fischopper, thirty-four. OF
No 34S West Kinney street.
Michael Bowers, fourteen, OF No. l1s
John street.
Hugo Schmidt, thirty. Of No. $50
South 1lth street.
Charles r. Williams, twenty-nine. OF
No. 2S2 Orange street.
William Barnett, address unknown.
Herbert Grieshader. thirteen, of No.
Il North 22d street. Irvington.
George Grieshader, fifteen, Of the
same address.
Joseph Foehner. twelve, OF No. lS9
Sixteenth avenue, Newark
Harry Kurzenberger, fourteen. OF No.
Edward Role. fourteen. Of No. 427
South 18th street, Newark.
22S South 18th street.
Last Race the Fatal One.
The accident occurred at little after
5 o'clock. 1t was the last race on the
Many persons had gone
to the rail about the track and were
leaning over watching the racers.
The race was four mile free-for-ali,
In which there were six contenders. In
addition TO Hasha and Johnny Al
bright, one Of the stars at the Brighton
Beach Motordrome, were Ray Seymour.
Of Los Angeles, the worlds record
holder from one to thirty miles; Ray
Peck. Of Los Angeles; Frank King, of
Denver. and Johnny King. Of Newark.
The race was handicap affair, In
which Hasha and Seymour started
from scratch.
There was considerable rivalry be-
tween the pair, each having won q
heat In the threeheat Class A event,
and the third being q dead heat.
Hasha took the lead at the gun, with
Seymour hanging on. The flying pair
soon distanced the rest of the field. On
the second lap Seymour put on moro