Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-07-23
BAD SPILL At
GRAND FORKS
One of Drivers Is Seriously Hurt
at the State Fair
Races.

driving Rose Directum in the 2:1S
pace yesterday afternoon, Was badly
hurt; G. e. Koch of Mandan, N. D.,
driving Gypsy Rex, sustained q brok
en- shoulder, and Charles ScnescaN CT
Hutchinson, Mimi, driving Fleeta
Americus, was badly shaken up and
bruised, when the three horses, with
their drivers and bicycles were piled
up on the track in tho last heat OF the
race.
Not Recovered.
Saunderson is in St. Michael's hos
pital, and up to a late hour last oven
ing had rot recovered consciousness.
He continually talked, and time and
again eyertel lis horse, as though~he
we're still in the race.
DR.. w. II. WitherstiEe, who attend
ed Saunderson, stated last evening
that he did not believe Saunderson
was internally injured. but that he
had sustained a severe shock and
that complications may yet develop.
Koch was walking around after the
mlXup and asking the crowd to keep
back so he could get plenty Of air.
+...EE Cause Not Known. IE
Just what caused the spill probably
will never be definitely determined.
Stable men and spectators. who were
at the quarter pole, near where the
accident took place, all had different
stories to tell. One prominent local
business man said that one of the
horses (Which one he could not say
was purposely driven in front of the
rihnr~ or1 no,ycn1 fh0 hrno1r11n .-rNhiS
version, however, was disproved by a
large majority. The c%oncensus Of
opinion seems to be that Rose Dlrec-
tum, driven by ;Saunderscn, stumbled
and fell, and that the other two
horses, speeding along within q few
feet, ran over them, piling the horses,
drivers and bicycles in an almost in
eXtricable confusion.
Rush to Scene.
An immense crowd rushed over the
track to the scene, and crowded
around the first aid workers, who had
S%aunderson stretched out on the
ground, trying to resuscitate him. 1t
was with considerable difficulty that
the crowd was forced back and then
Manager Fred Parsons Of the Hotel
Dacotah superintendent the removal of
S%aunderson to the Dow automobile,
and he was rushed to st. ,Michael's
hospital under the supervision of Dr..
Witherstine, who fortunately, was
near at hand to where the accident
occurred.
Great Excitement.
The spill occasioned great excite
ment. coming. as it did, when the
judges had ruled one driver from be-
hind his horse for the race and sub
stituted another.
This substitution took place in the
third heat. In the first two heats
General Luther's Baby walked away
with two firsts and Range Girl, driv-
en- by A. Bowlby Of Wahpe:on, took
second both times. Ex-Gov.' e. Y.
Sarles, who was one Of the racing
Judges, together with Geo. Eeacham
and Senator frank Hyland, the other
two judges. did not like the looks Of
Bowlby's driving and decided to sub
stitute Driver Stills, who had piloted
Miss Thornway to a victory in the
2:3O pace. Accordingly, Stills, who
already had his glad rags on and
was going back into the judges stand,
was called to the judges stand and
told to drive. and his compensation
fixed at 500 for the work. Stills tried
to get out of it, but the judges stood
firm. Rowlby then came into the
Judges stand and made a strenuous
protest against being ruled out of the
rest of the race and promised to
keep on doing his best and give
them a race" The judges were in
sistert, however, and made Stills drive
and the third heat Of this pace was
the prettiest event seen at the local
grounds in many years.