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Show FATAL AUTOMOBILE S ACCIDENT ON RAGING ROAD NEAR LAS CHAMPS NEW YORK. July 1. A fatal auto- j mobile accident' has occurred on the I main road leading from Clermont-Fer-rlapd to Lus Champsj 'where the start for the race for the International cup will be -made, says a Paris dispatch to the Herald. Baron Henri de Rothschild's second machinist, Tomissier, and Joseph Jef-freide. Jef-freide. another chauft'eur from the service ser-vice of :he Karon, were returning with two women from Las Champs in a sixty six-ty horse-power automobile which the .Baron drives. ' The automobile was "traveling' down " one of the long slopes at a tremendous pace when the driver, seelng a turn in front of him, applied the brakes. . The back wheels ."ckldded" on the ; greasy surface of the road and the vehicle ve-hicle crashed against the plej-a of a sfnall stone bridge. The four-occupants of the automobile were hurled out of the machine. , A number of barrels of tar stood near. One of the women struck a barrel bar-rel with her head, which was crushed in. -and she died Instantly. One of the men was also thVown against a barrel with such force that his, head went throuch the side. Persons near at hand ran to the rescue, res-cue, and the man, having been withdrawn with-drawn from the barrel, was removed to a' hospital at Clermont-Ferriand In a despeiats condition. The two other occupants, oc-cupants, who were thrown' Into the field, escaped with a Flight brushing. The automobile was stnaFhed to pieces. |