| Show CHARLES FAIR AND WIFE KILLED BY automobile machine running at the rate of 62 miles an hour when I 1 it t Bud suddenly denly collapsed throwing occupants to the ground mr and mrs charka IV fair who were wera related to mrs IV W IC vanderbilt jr miss virginia fair ii were ere returning to parts paris from trouville Troi mlle thursday when their automobile swerved and crashed luto into a tree fifteen miles from paris both were hilled tile chaffeur insane as a consequence of tho the shock mi ill and mis hits fair had been staying at Trouville during the ilia week I 1 alicy hey had bad a deiy fast forty five hono boise power automobile which attracted considerable attention and with which they were highly pleased mr fair had been beca from Tro trouville uvilla to paris and back bala again in one day with tile the machine the accident oce ut red almost in front of the chateau buusson Itu isson du mal alai tile the fairs intended to dine and spend the night in paris and return to trouville for lunch tile the following day ilia wife of tile the gatekeeper of the chateau was the only witness of the disaster slie she says fays bile bhe noticed a big bg red automobile coming along the load at a tremendous pace suddenly something happened and the heavy machine slid sidewise from the right to the left side aide of the road for about sixty yards it then llian dashed up an embankment turned a complete somei somersault sault and crashed into in to a big el elm ru tree I 1 in a front fron t of tile the gate of the chateau I 1 llie ile automobile waa as completely wrecked the axle was broken and other p arts of the machine were ere smashed including the steering gear 11 lien the automobile turned over the gilfe of tile the gatekeeper says hays she bile saw mr and mrs fair thrown high in the hie air and fall with a heay heavy thud to the ground ahe I 1 he chauffeur who was sitting bitting behind the I 1 lairs airs was pi into a ditch lie ile staggered to his feet calling for help the gatekeepers gate keepers a wife rushed to hla his aid and helped him film in extricating mr and mrs mra lair who were vere burled buried beneath the wrecked machine laa chioe and in the last throes of death both h had ad sustained ghastly injuries nod and were ere a almost unrecognizable at mr r I 1 bair air a h head ea d bad been crushed in while ahil a his wife a 8 skull wits was split the accident nas evidently due to the bursting of a tire at the time lime I 1 it occurred the automobile which was capable of running seventy four miles an hour was going at the rate of sixty two miles an hour mr air and mrs airs charles fair left san bodies of tho th unfortunate cou couple thrown high into thie the air and landed in debris of machine beenk horribly mann manatee led the latter part pa rt of tay may last for a till to lurono Europ fi Char charles leit fair was tile son bon of the liu ilta senator fair a and nd mas as one olie of tile the heirs to t he immense estate of the late a anater it Is pecullar peculiar that tile son of 01 th hij lato john NV V maclay mackay one of 64 matov mat ov I 1 bedr batira a partners was also hilled glear cor a few ysais ago by being fi aiom om his horse chabes I 1 lair air was the tile the four children child chil dien i en of the lao jaae air aud and lira james 0 1 lair air lemusu who alio it 11 now of Ilera hermann lann litho lithe oldest of the hells helis I 1 1 iea aino jo roes who died about ten years ago Cli arlea was waa the hie third and tile waa virginia who la Is now tile alfa lf cf IV IC vanderbilt jr in bi the spring of 1894 charles maulo mamie nelson Ifie 1 lie ceremony took place lelace in oakland and it was ivaa it necdet one diaries charles I 1 idi all was one of bell a to an immense estate in value at between and the other two are ilia his two st slaters aters chaales fair was boro bom in virginia city nev on abill 21 1807 and was waa consequently 35 years of ag aga ile he brought the ilia first automobile across tile the continent to sari san francisco lie ile was also greatly interested in photography to and constructed one of the ever brilla ili the united states mates fair wm liew kond ot of the bodies of mr and tire mrs charles fair who were killed in an automobile accident near evereaux Eve fiance were embalmed embalm ed and placed in coffins after vv which aich they were shipped to carls whence they will bo be taken to san francisco I 1 lie he chauffeur said friday diat before the accident lie ej ed the tile of tile left hind wheel of the machine was deflated and that tho i lim fm of the wheel IB as rubbing on the ground lie told mr fair who tried to stop slop and the accident fol followed loed peasants who saw tile the automobile say it wits was impossible to distinguish its color the firm that sold mr fair uie tilie automobile last june say lie he paid for it and ordet ordered ed another at the same price to be of sixty horsepower horse borse power the second machine was waa it almost ready for delivery mr air lair was waa passionately fond of and never missed a day on oil the road several everal times lie attempted to beat tile the one hour decord |
