Salt Lake Telegram | 1920-11-26 | Page 1 | Three Dead in Racing Tragedy

THREE DEAD DA I IN RACING ACI TRA TRAGEDY D DS I S Speed peed Classic of Los Angeles Results in Fatal Cr Crash h Racers ISaG r Lose Lives ives in Event r C S ANGELES Nov Noy 26 26 L LOS Eddie ODonnell O'Donnell race driver I injured yesterday at the Beverly i Hills speedway in a Thanksgiving day automobile ra race e died this I morning without regaining conscious- conscious CHEVROLET KILLED I II The body bady of G Gaston Chevrolet who I i iI I died in the crash in which ODonnell O'Donnell I was injured will be taken to Indianapolis Indianapolis Indianapolis Indian Indian- apolis for burial Mrs Chevrolet re received received received re- re a telegram from Louis Chevrolet let brother of the dead man from Savannah Ga asking whether he should come here She replied asking him to go direct to Indianapolis to arrange for far the funeral Mrs Chevrolet Chevrolet Chevrolet Chev Chev- rolet will leave Sunday Sunda with her husbands husband's husbands husband's husbands husband's hus hus- bands band's body according to present ar ar- ar ENGAGED TO TOWED TO WED No Ka funeral arrangements for Lyall I Jolls the who was riding with ODonnell O'Donnell had hail been made early I I today taday Jolls was engaged to marr marry 1 Mrs May A. A Esch of of St St. Paul who witnessed the accident His home wasi was wasI i in St. St Paul where he left r relatives I Speedway officials said it was was probable probable probable able his body would be sent there thereafter thereafter I after Mrs Esch had recover recovered d sufficiently sufficiently suf suf- I I from the shock shack to be conj con con- 1 suIted She was prostrated last night j At an early hour this morning it I. I i iwas was believed by physicians in attendance attendance attendance attend attend- ance th that t O'Donnell's condition was improving but a evidently formed as a result of af a basal fracture I of the skull and his life Ufe was snuffed out aut just before 8 S I SPECTACULAR RACE The accident was probably the most I spectacular ever seen on a racing track in in this country Some persons came to their feet gasping when tho the cars of af Chevrolet and ODonnell O'Donnell came together at blinding bUnding speed in the lap Jap of af the II mile da dash h for the championship of ot I America l Chevrolet and ODonnell O'Donnell traveling iwen i well wen over aver fJ a hundred undred miles mUes an hour touched one ane of ot the fastest records ever seen on the track Chevrolet and Jolls Molls struck on their I heads and their necks w were were re broken Of the four faur men riding In the two t cars the only one me to escape death L was waa Chevrolets Chevrolet's Fate Tate was with Johnny Bresnahan who I emerged from fram the bi big crash with only i ia a few scratches CHEVROLETS CHEVROLET'S TRIUMPH Death snatched Chevrolet at the moment of his greatest triumph The Therace Therace race cost cast his life Ufe but it brought to r him the greatest honor which is within with with- in the grasp of r racing drivers in America The result of af the classic crowned him pr premier speed king of af the country country after after his death The other drivers continued the t mad dash for glory and gold without t pause A jinx which dizzy speed could note not e release had trailed trailed smiling Eddie ODonnell O'Donnell throughout his career as a f motor mator pil pilot t. t I EDDIES JINX 1 When he entered the racing game gamesome I some eight years ago a rosy future I was predicted for lar him But just as ashe ashe r he was nearing the top and about five years ago he was overtaken by bythe bythe the hoodoo which toU followed wed hi him to his death The jinx firs frat first asserted itself t J 1 when he suffered a bad ad smashup in n cont Continued on page 11 X THREE DEAD I Continued from page 1 1 practice for the Vanderbilt cup race Ever since luck has been against him But his habit of grinning j through it all won for him thousands of friends and the sobriquet Eddie Watch me mo shake off oft the jinx he Jle had remarked before tho the start of the therace raco race yesterday 1 ODonnell O'Donnell was wag married and his home was in Los Angeles t