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Show SIX MEET DEATH IH IlflHCCHI TRAGEDY MARS THE SABBATH WHEN MACHINE GETS BE- YOND CONTROL. Rldere and Spectators Alike Victims When Machine Going at Ninety two MHes an Hour Mows Down a Line of Men and Boys. Newark, N. J. Six persons were It! led, alx are dying and thirteen wore were seriously Injured Sunday at the Vailsburg motordrome when Ihf. motorcycle ridden by Eddie llasha of Waco, Texas, got away from him and jumped the railing separating the track where the bleachera and grand atand Join. The cycle, which was going go-ing at 92 miles an hour, mowed down a line of men and boys who were Jeanlng over the railing at the edge of the track, killing four and Injuring many. llasha was thrown against a heavy upright. Ills neck waa broken aad his skull fractured. The force of the Impact was terrific. The heavy cycle rolled down the steeply banked track, directly In front of the machine ridden by John Albright. Al-bright. Albright was unable to avoid the other machine because of the great speed at which lie waa going and when hla motorcycle struck he was thrown a distance of thirty feet, rolling uaconsclous to the bottom of he embankment. He died three hours later at the City hospital. Parts of the broken machine flew Into the grand stand, striking men and boys and badly Injuring them. Many persona taken to the city hospital and the German hospital In Newark were so badly Injured that they were unable un-able to tell their names and it Is thought that the list of dead will be added to by at least five. There were more than 6,000 persons in the grand stand and on the bleachers and s state almost of a panic followed the accident. |