Ogden Daily Standard | 1907-08-23 | Page 1 | Performing Automobile Runs Amuck

performing automobile RUNS AMUCK pittsburg pa aug madly down a 50 foot incline an automobile turned a double somersault in the air threw its driver forty feet high and landed him nearly beef away in a surging mass of over 20 people who had gathered to see the world famous sensational automobile performance yesterday afternoon at the old home park week in pa after disposing of its human freight the machine severely injured a woman and two children sent many into hysterics and caused over a hundred to sustain slight injuries in the struggle to escape the machine wrecked itself against a pole most remarkable of all was the escape of breton the driver from death after the machine had expelled him like a shot from a loose coat quickly filled with air and safely parachuted him over the crowd which governed by the of preservation as one raised its hands forming a lauress of fingers to arrest hla downward flight the slight injuries he received were sustained fitter he fell through his bed