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Show NINE DIE IN AUTO WRECK Three Cars Crash Together, To-gether, One Dashing Over Bridge's Edge Philadelphia, Oct. 7. Nine persons are dead as a result of tho terrific collision, between throe automobiles earlv vesterday on tho edge of Fair-mount" Fair-mount" park. One of the cars, which Is reported to havo been running at high jpeed, struck another car, which was hurled against the third. Tho "wild" car containing six men crashod through a railing on a bridge and fell forty feet, killing all its occupants occu-pants Three men In the Beconxl car also met death by the force of the collision. Tho fcad: ROBERTA BOYD. EDWARD SHAW, JR. DANIEL WILKES. DANIEL LA WHENCE. GORDON H. MILLER. LEON NKVING. JESSE HOLMES. ROBERT GIEFBL. ERE3T SOHOFIELD. All were residents of Philadelphia. The accident took place at Thirty-third Thirty-third and Thompson streets. Just out-Blde out-Blde of Falrmount park. "Tho park, which Is one of the largest In the country, Is noted for its beautiful roads and nil day and night strings bf motor earn are passing along somo of tho roadwayn. Unable to Escape. Charles J. Spade, who escaped uninjured un-injured from tho crash, except for slight cuts and bruicea, declared that his car had juBt come out of the park and was crossing Thompson streot, when another car, socmlngly running wild, came flying up out of tho darkness dark-ness and crashed Into his car before he could avoid It. Then the wild car, which It was In'oT- learned belonged to Edward " ; of 1310 Morris street, swung f- md by the force of the impact, .'lunged across tho sidowalk through a guard rail on the edge of tho street I to tho Pennsylvania railroad trackn 40 feet below. This car was a total wreck and every man in It was killed. Two men In the Spade car were killed kill-ed instantly and anothor was bo badly bad-ly injured that ho died in a abort time. when the Shaw car struck Spado's machine the latter was hurled backward back-ward and Into a third automobile which was passing. This car eeems to have escapod without any serious Injury, for It made off in the darkness. dark-ness. Aroused by Crash. The crash of tho throe automobiles, the splintering of wood as lho Shaw car plunged through the guard rail to the trackG and tho cries of the occupants oc-cupants of the cars aroused residents for blocks around Other cars that came out of the park stopped at once. Three men woro picked tip and put into one of these cars, which was started at fuil speed to tho Gorman hospital, more than a block away. Tho track walker of the Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania railroad, who had discovered the wreck of the Shaw car and who i heard the cxcltod cries of the pcr3oni i In the street, made his way up an'l led the police down to tho rallrcad Here they found another automobile completely wrecked with six dead, the bodies being caught In lho wreckage or lying wIHiin a few feet of It. |