Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-11-19
Lewis Jackson Drives Car
Into Curbings, Then
Comes the Wreck.
TREES ARE UPROOTED
Eighteen Drivers Started III
Annual Prize Race Won
by Johnny Aitken.

CANTA MONICA, Cal, Nov. 1S.-
~ Four persons were killed and one
woman and two men were injured to-
day in the seventh annual prize auto
mobile road race. The event was won
by Johnny Aitken, driving as relief
clared the official winner and the new
average speed record of $500 miles an
hour for the 4O3.24S miles of the
course will stand in Wilcox's name.
Athens time accredited to Wilcox was
4:32:47.
The winners of the first, second and
third places all averaged better time
than the former grand prize record
of 77.22 made two years ago on the
same course by Eddie Pullen. These
were Cooper, second; Patterson, third.
and Roads, fourth. Rickenbacker,
driving for Weightman who withdrew
and Cody were tagged while running.
Lewis jackson, a Los Angeles driver,
on his thirteenth lap swerved into one
of the palm trees lining the course
and caused the death of himself and
three others and the injury of two.
The dead
HAROLD EDGERToN, Los An
geles, spectator.
LEWIS JACKSON. Los Angeles
driver.
j. b. JENKINS. motion picture
camera operator
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN, lemon
ade vender.
The injured
JOHN GHIANDA, Los Angeles
Jackson's mechancian; ]. S. Hanni-
gan. Los Angeles. spectator.
Trees Uprootcd.
Jackson's car uprooted the first
palm tree IL struck, overturned a
lemonade stand killing the woman in
charge, crushed jenkins against a
second palm tree which was broken
off short and wrapped itself about n
third tree. In this wrcckage jack
sons body was nearly cut in two.
His mechanician was thrown out and
escaped with dangerous injuries
Edgerton was struck by flying parts
of the wrecked car. He and jenkins
died an hour after they We're taken
to a hospital.
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 unin-
jured.
Daro Resta, winner of the Van
derblt cup race Thursday and OF
last years grand prize race, with
drew on the eighteenth lap on ac-
count of mechanical trouble.
Wilcox, officially the winner OF
the race, was in first place when he
was relieved in the twentieth lap by
Aitken, who never lost first position
Wilcox asked early in the race tina,
he be relieved by Aitken. but Off
cials denied permission on until the
twentieth lap.
Jackson's fatal accident was pre-
ceded by a minor one which officials
said might have weakened his car
Early in the race Jackson's car
jumped the curb on the turn where
later he was killed and ran onto the
| interurban railway tracks some dis
tance from the race course. He
changed a wheel when he reached
| the pits and little attention was
given the accident.
Jackson, according to race Off
cials. was going at an estimated speed
of one hundred miles an hour on the
San Vincente back stretch at the
| time his car became unmanageable
His left front wheel hit the cement
curb, which Is about 10 inches high
and crumpled. The axle rested or
the curb and the car raced along fol
| 25 feet before II left the road. The
| motor was thrown twenty feet and
! the radiator and hood were thrown
| thirty feet further.