Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-07-31
SEVEN DEAD
in CRASH AT
MOTOR RACE
Speed King > Hits
Pole and Exploding
Gasoline Sets F ire to
Many in Cincinnati.
TRACK OFFICIALS ARREST
ORDERED BY CORONER
Accused of Voluntary Man.
slaughter-Death of Three
More Victims of Flames Is
Expected.

oiud6iiAOi VI iHiCO
More Victims of Flames Is
Expected.
CINCINNATI, July s1.-with seven
dead and three Others dying as the
result of the accident to the motor
cycle of Odin johnson, at the Lagoon
Motordrome last night, Coroner
James Wise, of Kenton county, KEN
lucky, today swore to warrants
charging three of the officials of the
| amusement park with voluntary man.
slaughter, The three men are Man
ager Eberhardt, of the Motordrome;
| Manager WILDER, of the park, and
Manager Rusch, of the Motorcycles
League.
| The list of dead was not augmented
during the final hours of the morn
Ing, but attending physicians say
that at least three of the burned cam
not recover and that the condition
or several others is precarious
| The list of injured is steadily in
creasing as the names of those who
were taken away by private parties
become known. 1t has been ascer-
tained that the fiery fluid was thrown
over no less than thirty people and
II is almost miraculous that the
death list did not run even higher,
inasmuch as the motordrome is miles
from hospital, and first aid to the
injured was almost impossible, owing
to the semi-panic that followed the
explosion.
The revised list Of dead follows:
Odin Johnson, of Salt Lake City.
Utah. motorcycle racer; William Da-
Wis, aged 5 years. Ludlow. KY;
Henry Andrews, aged Is years, Gin
cinnati; Mrs. William Michaels. aged
80 years. Ludlow Ky; Miss Ethel
Buchtman, aged 20 years. Covington,
| Ky; James Carter, aged 80 years,
Cincinnati; William Patterson. aged
81 years, Cincinnati
Identity Victims.
Young Andrews and Miss Buci1t-
man were unconscious when brought
to the hospital, and their names
were placed on, the books as Samuel
Travers and Miss Burckman, re-
spectively. Later relatives called
and they were identified.
Expect More Deaths.
Odin Johnson, captain of the Cin-
cinnati team which was contesting
at the Motordrome, for some reason
that will probably remain unknown.
drove his cycle to the extreme top
of the circular track, crashed into
an electric light pole, broke 1t off and
the contact of the live wire with his
. | mr. ,cf,1i an. T.
throwing the burning fluid over n
score of spectators Johnson paid -
penalty with his life.
Last Race of Night.
The race was the last one on the !.
program for the nig.t, and johnson,
who had won both the previous con.
tests, was leading. In coming in
front of the grand stand he was seen
to suddenly steer his wheel toward
the top and before he could right II
again he had hit the pole.
A moment later streak of flame
shot out over the audience and a
semi-panic reigned. Living torches
ran here and there, and 1t was With
difficulty that the flames were extin-
guished in time to prevent the grand
stand from catching fire.
Johnson was conscious when picked
up, but he died on his way to the
hospital, as did the young Davis boy.
Second Accident on Track.
The track is a quarter mile saucer
track and has an angle of so de-
grees. A cyclist was required to have
a speed of seventy-f1ve miles an hour
in order to retain place on the up-
per elevation of the track.
The races have been going on for
several weeks and this is the second
accident, the cyclist in the other hav-
ing been released from the hospital
only few days ago. The Motor
drome was crowded when the acci-
dent occurred, the advertised feature
being that johnson would lower the
track record of eighty-five miles an
hour.
When the spectators, who were on
fire, began to run, the audience rose
as one, many women tainted, and 10
was with the greatest difficulty that
a stampede was prevented The
Cleveland team was opposing the
Cincinnati team In the race.
J The cause of the accident, according
" pdDdHHd OI lHb O1SNeldnQ Iedmi
which was contesting with the Gin
cinnati team at the time, is that
Johnson collided with him a moment
before he crashed into an electric
light pole at the side of the track
Gabanna said the impact was slight
but that 1t forced Johnson to go to
the outside and in doing so he took
the upper elevation of the track
This started him on his road to de-
struction, but Just why he was not
able to right himself cannot be ex-
planned even by his fellow riders in
the race.
|. Eight persons were killed in tht
tragedy which occurred here at tha
Motordrome on September 8 last
year and which is recalled by the
similarity between that and the ac-
cident last night in Cincinnati Az
in the Western race rider rose too
high and finally went beyond all
bounds, crashing into a row of specs
tators and killing himself when he
collided with pole. Eddie Hasha.
the motor king, was the racer who
rode to his death here last year and
the machine which he lost control
of killed another rider Johnny AL
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