White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-11-24
LOS ANGELES AUTO
RACES ARE FATAL
CAR GOING 100 MILES AN HOUR,
PLUNeEs INTO SPECTATORS,
KILLING FOUR.
SEVERAL SERIOUSLY INJURED
Driver Loses Control and Machine
Uproots Tree and crushes DR.
ver's Life Out Against An
other-WlIcox Wins.

Los Angeles, Cal.-Four persons
were killed, one woman, and three
were injured Saturday in the seventh
annual international grand prize au-
tomobile road race.
Lewis Jackson, a Los Angeles
driver, on his 18th lap, swerved into
palm tree lining the course and
caused the death of himself and three
others and the injury Of three.
The Dead.
Harold Edgerton, Los Angeles, a
spectator.
Lewis Jackson, Los Angeles, dri-
yer.
l.. B. Jenkin, camera operator.
Mrs. Leana Juratch, Venice, lem
onade vendor.
The Injured.
John Ghianda, Los Angeles, Jack
sons mechanician.
]. s. Hannigan, Los Angeles, a
spectator.
Miss Georgia Mccall, Santa Mo,
MICA.
In Deadly Crash.
Jackson's car uprooted the first
palm tree it struck, overturned a
lemonade stand, killing the woman
in charge, crushed Jenkins against a
second palm, which was broken off
short, and wrapped itself about a
third tree much as if the steel were
cloth. In this wreckage Jackson was
crushed until his body was practi-
cally in two pieces.
His mechanician, John Ghianda,
was thrown out and escaped danger
GUS injuries. Edgerton was struck
by flying parts of the wrecked car.
He and Jenkins died an hour after
they were taken to a hospital
Hannigan also was struck by parts
Of the wrecked car. He and Ghianda
will recover
Miss Mccall was in a crowd of
spectators near the scene of the &C.
cident. 1t was said she was struck
by flying parts from the car
Going at Terrific Speed.
Jackson, according to course Off
Gals, was going at an estimated
speed Of 100 miles an hour on the
San Vincente backstretch at the
time his car became unmanageable.
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
rs feet before it left the road
Hundreds of spectators saw the car
smash through the lemonade stand
crushing the woman, uproot palm
tree, smash into the second and pin
Jenkins and wrap its steel frame
completely around the third tree. The
motor was thrown 20 feet and the
radiator and hood we're thrown 80
feet further
Minor Accident Precedes.
Jackson's fatal accident was pre-
ceded by minor one, which officials
said might have weakened his car
Early in the race Jackson's car jump
ed the curb on the turn where later
he was killed and ran onto the inter
urban railway tracks some distance
from the race course. He changed q
wheel when he reached the pits and
little attention was given the acct
dent.
Jackson was chauffeur for mo
ton picture actress and the car he
drove, his friends said. previously
had been in scenes which Jenkins, as
cameraman, had photographed.
Wilcox ls Winner.
The race was won by Johnny Ait
ken, driving as relief for Howard
Wilcox. Wilcox was declared the Of
ficial winner, and the new average
speed record of 1856 miles an hour
for the 4O3248 miles of the course
will stand in Wilcox's name. Aitken's
time, credited to Wilcox, was 4:42:47
The winners Of the first, second
and third places all made averages
better than the former grand prize