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Show F0URNIER KILLED AT LEMANS. FRANCE LB7MANA, Franco, July 14. The Grand Prix do Franco, which waa run bora Sunday under tho auaplcoa of tho Automobile Auto-mobile club of Sort he, was marked by fatal accident. Tho axle of tho machine driven by Maurice Kournler, hero of noted automobile automo-bile races, collapsed when the car was speed in a: more than a mile a minute. In an endeavor to overtake tho French d river, H emery. Fournler waa crushed to death beneath the car and bla mochan-lolan mochan-lolan waa hurled 10O feet Into a field and eerlousl Injured. The nice drew the largest crowd alnce the Wright aviation trials In 10S. Tha tropical heat eubjected Urea and en tines to a tremendous strain, adding greatly to tho Intereet of tho event aa a tost of OQdu ranee. Fourteen etartere eame to tho lino for I the race, which waa over a distance of i CSS kilometres (t9i miles), but no Amer-: Amer-: leans competed, the only American car entered having met with an accident last Monday In which the driver, Henri Re- Easae, waa Injured, and his mechanician tiled. Hemery won tho event In T hours and minutes, covering the twelve rounds of the course at an average epeed of tl kilometers 6e miles) an hour. No ottwr competitor completed tho distance dis-tance when the limit waa up and moet of thorn abandoned tho race before the tenth round. |