Arizona republican., 1916-05-14
TWO KILLED
 IN AUTO RACE
Carl Limberg and R. Palotti Victims of Fatal Accident at Sheepshead Track = : Rickenbacher is an Easy Winner
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 NEW YORK, May 13.-Carl Linn berg. an automobile racer. and R. Pallotti, his mechanician. leading the field in the fifteenth lap of the 150 mile race for the Metropolitan trophy, were killed when their machine crashed into guard rail on the Sheepshead Bay track this afternoon.
 Limberg who had been taking the turns near the very top of the high saucer track, apparently lost control of his car while rounding the bend at speed of more than 100 miles an hour. Both men were catapuhed 100 feet over the rail and crashed to the ground about 30 feet below. The driver was impaled on an upright piece of timber and wis killed in- stantly Pallotti died cn the way to the Coney Island hospital.
 The machine. one of three French cars imported for the race by Harry $. Hardness. clumpled under the inn pact and burst into flames The blaz- ing car clung to the ra!l as the other drivers flashed past without slacken- Ing speed, ignorant of the fate Of their fellow racer. A flash of flame and a cloud of black smoke told the spectators that an accident had hap penod but as it occurred at the far , turn of the two mile saucer. few realized that it marked a tragedy
 Limberg's wife was in the grand stand. As the other cars dashed by. she missed her husbands machine and realized that he was the victim of the accident An attendant es- corted her from the stand and an automobile carried her to the hos pital as she was told Limberg had been taken :here. Not until she reached there did she learn that he was dead. Few of those in the stands knew until the race was nearly over that two mea had lost their lives.
 Ed Rickenbacher Wins
 Eddie Rickenbacher was an easy winner of the trophy in an hour. a minutes and 3l seconds. an avera ge of 96.23 miles an hour for the 15o miles. Jules Devigne finished second in one hour. S5 minutes and II sec onds and Ira Vail third in an hour 3s minutes and 44.6s seconds.
 After the accident Dario Resta forged ahead and led until the Hath mile when engine trouble forced hin to quit. Ralph Mulforl led in soms of the early laps but was forced ts quit by trouble with his engine before Limberg's accident
 A new worlds record was estab. lished in the 20 mile race by Johnni - Aiken, who won this event in I : minutes. l6 seconds. The previous record was established on the sam, track by Dario Resta in 11:24: 50
 Limberg finished third in the rac and Joseph Christiaens second.
 Limberg was lons distance run
 ner and a bicycle and motorcycl' , racer before automobile racing becam popular He came to New York fror
 San Jose. Cal. eight years ago as a
 amateur bicyclist racer and later be came a professional
 -t For several years he was the tear mate Of Harry Grant. the automobiI racer who was fatally burned whe
 his machine took fire on the sam : track last fall a few days before in
 Astor cup race. He raced with Gran
 in the Indianapolis and Chicago 5d
 mile races and distinguished himse
 on the dirt tracks by winning Il t American road championship.
 8 After the Astor cup race last fal f in which he drove. he was sent r France by Mir Hardness. president . the Sheepshead Bay Speedway oOrpo Q ation and brought back three ne l.fars. insnne of which he was killed.