Show HATH DEATH t TOLL OF AUTO RAGE RACE four killed and nineteen injured as result of sixth cup race in new york long island motor parkway F four our dead and nineteen seriously injured three probably fatally was 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 year by finishing first in the fifth vanderbilt won saturdays event from john dawson driver of a marmon by the narrow 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 them the same course would be held october 16 fifteen cars have already been entered for the event W K vanderbilt jr donor of the vand er bilt cup could not be seen saturday night but A E president and general manager of the motor parkway spoke of ne e race only as a success he regretted of course 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 charles miller the third and fourth victims were ferdinand dzubin and edward lynch spectators |