Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1912-10-03
RICH YOUNG AUTO
RACER IS KILLED
sear Left Tire Blows Out When
Car Is Making 80 Miles
an Hour.
JEWS OF DEATH WITHHELD
Comrades Weep As Body Is
Wheeled Past-Bruce Brown
Known As million
aire Driver
Jews OF DEATH WITHHELD

Milwaukee. Wis. oct. l.-DaNid Bruce
Brown wealthy young New York
sportsman. lost his life. and his me-
chanician, Tony ..;cudalaii was fatally
injured, the result oi an accident on
me new Wauwatosa automobile ROAD
course to-day on the eve of the eighth
running of the Vanderbilt cup race.
Brown was driving his high powered
Fiat car 30 miles an hour when rear
left tire blew out. The heavy car
swcrved into a ditch and n second later
men and machine were cataputed d.
agonally across the road and into field
RE men were thrown clear of the car,
which was hurled high in -ile air. Its
lll converted it into IA tangled heap Of
wreckage.
Bruce- Browns skull was fractured. his
left leg was broken and he suffered
internal injuries. The top Of Scrdaari 3
skull was crushed his right arm was
broken and his body was seriously
torn.
Bruce Brown died at Trinity hospital
of hemorrhagc of the brain three hours
after the accident. having only partially
regained consciousness for few minutes.
Surgeons had trcphined his skull on both
sides in an unavailng effort to save his
life.
Caleb Bragg. Bruce Browns close
friend. Ralph De Palma, Teddy Tetzlaff
and other well-known drivers stood weep
ing in the hospital corridor as Bruce
Brown was wheeled from the operating
room to private ward. The hospital
authorities without news of his death for
an hour
NET DEATH HERO1CALLY.
Bruce Brown. according to Bragg, met
death in a heroic but futile effort to keep
his swerving car on the comparatively
narrow roadway after the explosion OF
the rear tire
Bragg declared that the course was
dangerously narrow. He asserted that
Bruce Brown could have saved himself
under similar conditions on wider road
Exceptions. however. were taken to thi!
statemen- by officers of the milwaukee,
Automobile De RS association under
whose auspices the races here are to BIZ
held. Referee i 2. Pardington also de
clared that the accident could not b.
blamed on the course.
The accident was Unavoidable" sal
Mr. Pardington. land the track was in n
wise to blame. 1t is in excellent cond
ton. The casting of the tire would hav
upset any machine travelling at that spec
no matter how excellent the course"
Bruce Brown had just driven the tastes
lap Of the days tuning up trials and ha
set a new record Of five minutes. 53 81
seconds for the 7.SS mile course. He wa
,ndeavorng to better this record whe
the crash came.
WON FIRST LAURELS IN 1910.
New York oct Mrs. r. A. Bruce
Brown. mother of the dead autCmohil
driver. left for Milwaukee at four ocloc
this afternoon before receiving the new
of hcr sons death. She is wealth
widow
David Bruce Brown, who becaus
of his large means was known IN an
tomobile racing circles as the mil
'onaire driver" was % years old. IT
-<vh the first laurels as an autom obi
driver when he captured the gran
prize race at Savannah in 1910. max
3ne a record in Benz car of 402 mile
at az average of 70 and n Fraction
miles an hour. This victory he dupl,
Gated at the grand prize race in II
same city tie next year in Fiat ma
chine with a record of 412 miles. a.
average OF 74.45 miles an hour.
Last year Bruce-Brown entered tn
French grand prix hut was disruaN
fed during the second day Of racin
when he ran out Of gasoline. He 10
che field by about 10 minutes wie
~blrged to quit.