Ogden Daily Standard | 1909-01-07 | Page 4 | Early Auto's Death Record

Early Auto's Death Record. "Talking of automobiles, I remember remem-ber ono, rather crude in design and dirty in its smoky progress, away back In I860. Of course, there wero steam carriages a century ago," said Stephen B. Greene of San Francisco. '"The machine I refer to was constructed con-structed by an eccentric character, who In those days 'had a deserved celebrity as a mining engineer. Ho used his contrivance to come to and from tho mines in Nevada, very much to tho annoyance and disgust of tho stage drivers and liverymen of that day. In fact, the opposition to his contrivance became so acute that one day tho machine was literally dismantled dis-mantled in the hotel yard at Sacramento, Sacra-mento, and in tho fight that ensued over its destruction one man was killed and the designer, whose namo I have forgotten, was wounded. I believe he never attempted to rebuild the machine, but I am not certain on this score. So far as I know no other attempt to build self-propelling vehicles ve-hicles for use in passenger transportation transporta-tion on trucklees roads was made until un-til the application of the explosive gasoline engines in the past few years."