Salt Lake Telegram | 1910-08-08 | Page 2 | King Alfonso's Many Escapes

KING ALFONSOS ALFONSO'S MANY ESCAPES i LONDON Aug S. S Kin Kins Alfonso o of ot Spain bears a charmed life me apparently for or he had a narow es escape po from serious If f not fatal tatal Injury wh when whon of Sir Sir Thomas Thomas' yacht Shamrock on which his majo majesty ty was a a. guest was as carried away and came cr crashIng crash crash- shIng sh- sh Ing to the deck Alfonso has been In Sn all sorts orts of accidents been plotted against been threatened and shot at at but has haa come como through virtually unscathed In 1896 1806 a a. bomb was found on the tho railroad railroad rail raU- road track over which the tho train was passing At the big celebration of at 1902 an Insane Insano in insane In- In sane sano man tried to attack him In January 1903 In Madrid a shot ahot was as fired tired at the royal roal carriage In 1904 at Barcelona several ral persons were were wounded by the explosion of at a bomb hurled at him In 1 1005 05 at the tho time of ot the Kings icings visit to France a bomb was hurled at him and President Loubet as they were re returning ro- ro turning from tho the opera In 1909 Alfonso while riding in an au automobile au- au near Villa Spain ran into a tree and narrowly escaped toppling toppling top top- pling Into a a. ravine Again In June of the tho samo same year while white playing polo his pon pony stumble 1 and fell tell pinning tho the rider underneath Far from being frightened by these at attacks attacks attacks at- at tacks or Incidents the young oung mon monarch Insists on traveling freely treel- among his people peo peo- pie una unaccompanied by court or other of officials of- of Saturdays Saturday's accident was al the second that Sir Thomas Lip Lipton ton h has S had while entertaining enter taming royalty aboard ship In May 1905 King Edward wan a guest on the Shamrock IL IL the challenger for tOr the Americas America's cup when she ahe WMS partially wrecked by a sudden Budden squall and dig dis mantl mantled d. d Tho The king had a miraculous fJ OB- OB cape and the st steel 1 cable just jUl ml missed ed him Even Eyen before the allor extricate themselves the king was wall seen climbing OV over r tho the w wreckage to see tf It ho he might beof be beof beof of any service to tn tho the Injured