The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-11-20
Four Persons Killed and
Three Injured at Santa
Monica, Calf.
DRIVER JACKSON
AMONG THE KILLED
His Mechanician, Thrown from the
Machine, Escapes Death - Movie
Operator, Spectator and Lemonade
Vender Among the Victims.

SANTA MONICA, Cal, Nov. 20. =
Driver Lewis jackson and three other
persons were killed Saturday in the
seventh annual grand international
prize automobile race, which was won
in record breaking time on the Santa
Monica course by Johnny Aitken, driv-
ing as relief for Howard Wilcox in a
Peugeot car.
The dead besides jackson, are:
Harold Edgerton, Los Angeles, spec
tator.
}. D. jenkins, motion picture camera
operator.
Mrs. Lana Juratch, lemonade vender.
The injured:
John Ghianda, Los Angeles, Jack
son S mechanician.
Miss Georgia Mccall, Santa Monica,
spectator
J. s. Hannigan, Los Angeles, specta-
! tor.
Jackson, Los Angeles driver, on
his 18th lap, swerved into one of the
palm trees lining the course. The car
uprooted the first palm tree it struck,
overturned a lemonade stand, killing
/ Mrs. Juratch, the woman in charge,
/ .
which was broken off short, and
wrapped itself about q third tree. In
/ this wreckage Jackson was crushed
and his body nearly cut in two His
mechanician, Ghianda, was thrown out
and escaped dangerous injuries. Ed
gerton was struck by flying parts of
the wrecked car. He and jenkins died
an hour after they were taken to hos
pital. Hannigan also was struck by
parts of the wrecked car. He will re-
! cover.
l Wilcox was declared the official win
ner of the race and the new speed rec
ord of. 1855 miles an hour for the
t4O3.24S miles of the course, win stand
in Wilcox 5 name. Aitken 5 time, cred
tied to Wilcox, was 4:14:42:47.
The winners of the first, second and
third places all averaged better time
than the former grand prize record of
1922 made two years ago on the same
course by Eddie Pullen.
Those finishing after Aitken, theil
times and average speed were:
Cooper, Stutz, second, 4:4s.59, aver.
age s3.72; Patterson, Kissel, third
5:09:3S, average 7S.l3; Roads, Hudson
fourth, time not announced
Rickenbacher, driving for Weight
man, who withdrew. and Cody were
tagged wlile running.
Eighteen drivers started, but only six
finished. Mechanical troubles caused
most of the Withdrawals. Eddie Pullen
holder Of the former grand prize record
turned over on the second lap, but he
was uninjured. Dario Resta, winner of
the Vanderbilt cup race Thursday and
of last years grand prize race, with
drew in the 18th lap on account of me-
chanical trouble.
Wilcox, officially the winner of the
race, was i'll first place when he was
relieved in the 20 lap by Aitken, who
never lost first position. Wilcox asked
early in the race that he be relieved
by Aitken, but officials denied permis-
sion until the goth lap.
Jackson, according to race officials,
was going at an estimated speed of 100
miles an hour on the San Vincente back
stretch when his car became unman-
ageable. His left front wheel hit the
cement curb, which is about Is inches
high, and crumpled. The axle rested on
the curb and the car raced along for
% feet before it left the road. The
motor was thrown 20 feet and the ra-
diator and hood were thrown 80 feet
farther.