Salt Lake Tribune | 1914-02-17 | Page 8 | Civil War Veteran is Killed by Auto

CIVIL WAR VETERAN IS KILLED BY AUTO Racing Car Picking Course for Vamlcr-bilt Vamlcr-bilt Cup Haco Leaps From tlie Koad. LOS ANGELES. Cal., Feb. 1C A great gray racer, picking its courso for the Vanderbllt cup race next Saturday, leaped from the road near the National Soldiers' homo at Sawlollo today, killed a veteran of many battles, and injured live other persons. The dead: Louis G. Smith, civil war veteran, CD years old. The injured: Mrs. A. W. Pipes, Tolsoii, Mont., thrown by the car and bruised. David Lewis, driver of car, mashed up. E. R. Arnott, mechanician, probably Internally In-ternally hurt. Two girls, knocked down, but not seriously seri-ously hurt; left scone before being Identified. Identi-fied. The only explanation available tonight was that Lewis lost control of his car aG It swept along the Santa Monica course, nearing the sea. The roadway at this point is wide. Smith, the veteran, was sunning himself and watching passing intcrurbau caj-s and vehicles, when the racer, running fifty miles an hour, was upon him. 1-Hs comrades com-rades staggered to the hospital with tlie blue-uniformed body, but Smith was dead almost before the house surgeon saw him. Lewis and Arnott wero pinned under the car. which upset, and at Mrst It wan believed both wero dead. Tonight, how-over, how-over, it was said Lewis would surolv get well. The doctors were not so confident about the mechanician.