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Show RACES ARE FORBIDDEN Series of Casualties Causes Prohibition of Automobile Automo-bile Contests, v PARIS. May 25. In view of the number of accidents, some fatal. In the first stare of the Paris-Madrid automobile au-tomobile race, from Versailles to Bordeaux, Premier Combes , has forbidden for-bidden the continuance of the contest on French territory. The second stage of the race, which was to have been continued con-tinued on Tuesday, included a run ever French territory from Bordeaux to the Spanish frontier. Premier Combes' action will probably lead to the abandonment of th race. Dispatches striving from points along the course add to the list of fatalities and accidents. The most terrible occurred near Bonneval, ten miles from Charles, where machine 243, 'driven by eVf. Porter, was overturned at a railroad crossing- and took Are. The rhaffeur was caught under un-der the automobile and burned to death. While two soldiers and a child were killed. A chaffeur was badly injured by an ao-rident ao-rident to his motor car near Angouleme. A woman crossing the road in tLe neighborhood neigh-borhood of Ablia was run over by one of the motor cars and killed. Mr. Stead and his chaffeur. who were first reported to have been killed, are still alive. It seems that their automobile collided with another an-other car with which Mr. Stead had been racing;, for several klllmeters, wheel to wheel, and was completely overturned in a ditch near Montguyon. Mr. Stead was caught under the machine, while his chaffeur was hurled a distance of thirty feet and had his head and body badly cut. Mr. Stead was conscious when he was picked up. but complained of suffering suf-fering great pain. Hs was conveyed to the nearest farm. It is stated that Louis Renault's automobile auto-mobile attained at Beudlnler, between Chartres and Bonneval, a maximum speed of 88S4 miles per hour. It is reported that the Spanish Government Govern-ment has also forbidden the continuance of the race on Spanish territory. |