Show 0 DEATH ATH TOLL OF AUTO RAGE RACE four K jilted filed and nineteen injured av as result of sixth vanderbilt cup race in now new york long lone island motor parkway four dead and nineteen seriously injured three probably fatally was tho the price in human flesh paid on saturday for the sixth running of the vanderbilt cup race won by harry grant driving a horsepower alco grant who distinguished himself last yearby year by finishing first in the fifth flath vanderbilt won saturdays event from john dawson driver of a marmon by tho the narrow edw margin of 25 seconds john altkin in the national was only a minute and six seconds behind dawson notwithstanding the appalling loss of life it was announced that the grand prize race over the same course w would be hold held october 16 15 fifteen cars have already been entered tor for the event wa W K vanderbilt jr donor of the orbitt cup could not be seen saturday night but A E president and general manager of the motor parkway spoke of the race race only as a success he regretted of course bours 0 the deaths and accidents but was inclined to attribute them mainly to carelessness two of those who met death were participants of the race mathew R bacon and chrles charles miller the third and fourth victims were ferdinand dzubin and edward lynch opeo gators |