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Show I BY AN AUTO H Races at Syracuse Re-Hi Re-Hi suit in a Terrible H I Tragedy H Syracuse, N. Y., Sopt. lC-nNIno H persons aro dead and fourteon serious- Hf l ly hurl as the result orf an accident H during tho fifty-mile automobile race M al tho aflr grounds this nfternoou, U when a Knox racing car, driven by H Leo Oldflold, leaped from the track H and plunged Into the throng of specta- H tors on the oilier side of tho fence. H The dead. j CLAUD HA MIL, Hammon, N. Y. 1 I j FRBD J. ARNOLD, Syracuse. I j CHARLES BALLANTYNB, Syrn- J i cusc. ' JAMES COIN". Alexandria Bay, N. Y. j j 7 FAYETTE FUNK, Farleyvillc. N. Y. H i I Leo Halpln, Syracuse, X. Y., died I al St. Joseph's hospital. H HARRY BRADLEY. Franklin. X. Y. H ' i Unknown man, sixty years old. B ' j Unknown man, twenty-five years H Qld- H . a Unknown boy, ten year old. (Injured. Lee Oldfleld, driver of the car; in . , , ternally injured and hasya fractured rlb- m 1 Peter Levardes, Syracuse; burlscd I j and cut. t j Charles Dooley, Syracuse; -Injured H j ' hip and bruises. H I i , William Minor, Syracuse; broken ri ,-z- H I I I Lawrenco Battemir, Canton, 0.; H ft slightly Injured. Hj Glenn Ross, Syracuse; slightly in- H I j jured. H H J William Sharkey. Syracuse. j Miss Anna Yorkel, Syracuse. H The accident occurred at the first H H j turn of the track after leaving the H JHL grand stand. On the inside of the H JH oval the people were jammend against H tho fence. The racers had jupt com- B pletcd the forty-third mile of tho race B- Hi and De Palma was leading. Oldficld H was coming close behind. HJ Plunges Into Crowd. HH On the first turn his right tiro blew H , up His machine flew from the track, H crashed through the fence and V" plunged Into the mass of people on (lie H other side. HL A In the grand stand it was at first H k thought that no one had been hurt. H jj An announcement to this effect was H j" made from the grand stand. But in H !l a moment or two the shouts of the Hp '1 crowd that gathered about tho scene of tho tragedy told tho officials that the accident was a tragedy. |