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Show LABOR DAY RAGE. Car With Unlucky Number 13 Knocks Down Fence and Others Following Plunge Into Wreckage. TWO MACHINES GO THROUGH UNHARMED Five Thousand Spectators at Tennessee Fair Witness Catastrophe; Ca-tastrophe; Chicago to Call Halt on "Joy Riders." NASHVILLE, Tenn., Sept. 1. Death claimed a heavy toll in the Labor day auto races at tho state fair grounds tolday when four of the six high-powered cars entered in the twenty-five-mile free-for-all race were wrecked on the far side of the mile track in sight, of the 5000 spectators. - Four of the racing men were killed and .three received minor injuries. Two of the cars with their drivers and mechanicians me-chanicians flashed through the tangled wreckage of broken cars and maimed bodies at a speed of sixty miles an hour, escaping injury. The Dead: JOHN W. SHERRILL, driver of Buick car No. 3. THOMAS P. BRIDGES, mechanician of Buick car No. 3. WILLIAM SHERROD, driver of Stutz car No. S. "GOOCH" BROWN, mechanician, Stutz car No. S. The Injured. Freeman Oroisby, mechanician, Mercer Mer-cer car No. 2, injuries not serious. Clyde Donovan, driver and sole occupant oc-cupant of Studobaker, "The Whisk-broom," Whisk-broom," No. 13, slight bruises. Edward Polk, driver of Mercer car No. 2, slightly bruised. All of the victims are residents of Nashville. Morcer car No. 5, Jake Loiver, driver; dri-ver; Tod Shoppard, mechanician, and Apperson No. 8, T. L. Evans, driver; Frank Boll, mechanician, escaped unharmed, un-harmed, although thcyl wro lushed through the wreckage at full speed. Both wore flagged before rounding the track again. Tho tragedy came without warning to the spectators. Cause of Horror. Tho six cars were speeding around tho circular track at a terrific rate of speed on the fifth lap with the Studobaker Studo-baker "Whiskbroom" carrying the ill-fated number 13, about 200 yards in the load of Mercer No. 2. Clyde Donovan, driving tho "Whiskbroom," feeling his right front -wheel give way, after swerving to avoid striking a negro boy, turned into tho outsid; fenco to avoid blocking the track. The wreck of the fence fell back onto the track into the path of the following cars. Mercer No. 2 flashed by in an instant. The Stutz. running third, drove into the wreckage and turned somersault, killing its crew. The Buick followed and struck with a terrible crash, turniug over sovoral times, The two occupants were dead when picked up. Will Call a Halt. CHICAGO. Sept. 1 A conference to devise some menns of minimizing automobile accidents will be called tomorrow to-morrow by Coroner Hoffman, following follow-ing his report made public, today that fourteen persons had been killed and injured by autos during the month of August. Letters have been sent to officials of all Chicago automobile clubs, presidents pres-idents of all railroads entoring Chicago, Chi-cago, Chief of Police McWceney, Sheriff Sher-iff 54i minor and representatives of tho police departments of nil Chicago's suburbs. All will bo asked to attend the conference con-ference with suggestions for legislation or some means in lessening tho number of accidents. Assistant State's Attorney Frank .lohnston announced tonight that ho would prosecute for murder all "joy riders' who inn down any one in the case the victim dies, or on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon in cases whom the victim is injured. Young Woman Killed. AURORA, III., Sept. 1. Miss Helon Gardiner was killed and David L. Gardiner, hor father, a woalthy real estate dcalor hero, was badly injured when the automobile in which they woro riding overturned on a flftoou-foot flftoou-foot embankment near Elgin tonight. |
