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Show LIFE IS SACRIFICED TO SPEED MANIA One Man Killed and Seven Injured In Thrilling 100-Mile Auto Race. Indianapolis, Ind., May 30. Nearly 10,000 persons from every state In the Union saw forty of the most Intrepid In-trepid automobile drivers in tho country couiL death on tho A. A. U. saucer-shaped Indianapolis speedway today. They saw Hay Hnrroun, driving n Mnrmon car, win the big speed event. They saw Hairniin, a mere slip of a man, nervy, cool-headed, In tho face of danger, a Wltablo pait of his machine, ma-chine, drive the fi00 miles of the race In less thau seven hours, or at an average rate of speed of seventy-five miles an hour, Including stops. TheHO 100,000 poisons cr u part of them saw one man dashed to death. They saw soven otheis more or less Borlously injured. They saw escapes that seemed almost mliaculous by the scoie. The crowd sat fascinated by the danger that attached to the racing game. The spectators cheered but little, their nerves were too tensely drawn during tho progress of the race to give Vent to their oniotlcaa lu this way. Every man, every woman, every child In that vast enclosure today momentarily mo-mentarily was expecting some dire disaster to ovortako the men who were risking life and limb In their mad daBh around the brick-paved track. Tho crowd was not' disappointed. Close Finish. The life that went out lu a swift second in the name of "sport" was that of Samuel P. Dickson, mechanician mechani-cian on 'the Amplex car .driven by Arthur Ar-thur "Greiner of Chicago. Almost at tho start of tho long and at times 'wearying and monotonous gTlnd of 300 long miletj, the cur In "which Grol-nor Grol-nor nnd Dlclson were riding turned turtle w'ftll'o .going Sevent)-flve n'Jloa , . a- . . - i. i an hour or rjiore. Dftkson'hiiirno chanco for hU life. Ho was' caught beneath tho wreckage 'A the powerful 'car. Nearly ovory bone l) his body was broken. Death A H mercifully came to him In ir. Instant. ',1 Greiner luckily escaped; how, nel vM ther ho nor anyone oUe know. Ills l Injurioj consist of a broken nrm nud II a fow'brulbes. jjlkH |
