The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1916-05-18
LIMBERG AND AID
KILLED IN RACE
Auto Driver and MechaniCian Die
49," at Sheepshead Bay.
VICTIM WAS IN THE LEAD
Tire on Car Bursts During 150-Mile
Contest-Roth Men Hurled Over
Forty-Foot Bank-Rlcken-
hacker Wins.

New York, May 15.-Carl Limberg,
driving a Delage car, and r. Pallotti'
his mechanician, were killed in the
running of the 150-mile Metropolitan
| trophy automobile race at Sheepshead
Bay speedway.
The race was won by Eddie Ricken-
hacker of Indianapolis, in a Maxwell.
He finished about IA miles ahead OF
Jules de Vigne in Delage. Ira VAIL
in a Hudson, was third. Rickenback-
ers time was 1881.
The accident that cost Limberg and
his mechanician their lives occurred
on the north bank of the track when
the racers were turning the fourteenth
| lap.
Limberg Dies in Ambulance.
The front tire of Limbergs car
burst, and the machine struck the rail
at the top of the wooden bank, Linn
berg and Palotti were hurled over the
bank and landed 40 feet below. Pa
lotti was killed instantly, his skull De-
| ing crushed. Limberg, also with his
skull crushed, died in the ambulance
on the way to the hospital. The car,
badly wrecked, tumbled down the
track and caught fire.
Limberg was in the lead when the
accident occurred. From the start
he hit up a clip of about 104 miles an
| hour and was closely followed by
Dario Resta in Peugeot. At the
twenty-eighth mile Limberg saw De
Vigne in his Delage trying to creep
up on him. He took a wide turn on
| the north bank and ran up within a
| foot of the guard rail. Then his front
tire blew out and the steering wheel
| twisted in the drivers hands.
De Vianes Car Turns Around.
The machine crashed into the rail
and tore it away. De Vigne, in order
to avoid the wrecked car, had to turn
| suddenly down the embankment. His
machine turned around two or three
times, but adjusted itself and contin'
ued in the race. Limberg's wife sat
in the grand stand and witnessed the
accident. a-. sta'. ... f-.',
About $4,000 people saw the race, in
! which ten cars started. While rec
ords were b$oken in the preliminary
races, the time for the big event
was comparatively slow. Dario
Resta, the favoTite, was a contender
with Rickenbacker right up to the
one hundred and fourteenth mile,
when a broken valve and smashed
cylinder casting forced him to the
pits. Resta was leading at 106 miles
an hour when he dropped out
Ralph milford in his Peugeot, who
also was picked as a likely winner
had engine trouble at the sixteenth
mile and dropped out.
Limberg went to the front at the
start and hit up a terrific clip. At
| the ten-mile mark he was in front
his time being 5:56:05. Hugging his
rear wheels were milford and De
Vigne. Milford was sticking close to
the leader at the sixteenth mile, when
suddenly he pulled up at the pits. A
broken piston put him out of the race.
Limbere Was Leading.
LluD6TB lOIS dFOuIlu the IIdCk at
a mad rate He was leading in every
lap up to the twenty-eighth mile, ex-
cept at the eighteenth, when Resta
set the pace for lap. Limberg was
leading at the twentieth mile, his
time being Has: 0S. Resta was second
and De Vigne third. Limberg was
going at terrific rate and had the
lead we'll in hand when he and his
mechanician were hurled to their
death on the twenty eighth mile.
The other drivers were going so
fast that they paid little heed to the
fatality.
Just before the fatal race Limberg
took third in the Coney Island cup a
20-mile race. He made a sensational
finish, losing second by car length.