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Show the macadam at a cross-road near tho little suburban town of Nef Brighton, and turned upside down. Of tho five passengers, all men, on was killed outright and two were fatally Injured, while two received loss serious hurts. The dead man, who was driving the car, Is John J. Lang, an Insurance broker living nearby. Ills fellow passengers pas-sengers were friends whom he had Invited to a speed trial by moonlight. Two of them received fractures of the skull and internal Inurlcs from which they wJll die. KILLED IN AN AUTO ACCIDENT Lake Geneva. Wis.. Aug. 12. Harney Har-ney Katlin of Woodstock. 111., was killed kill-ed and three companions were severely se-verely injured last night In a peculiar pecul-iar automobile accident. William KwiDg'a lungs wore pierced by three broken ribs, and may die. The four men were returning to Woodnoek. from Milwaukee and were driving thirty milr-s an hour. John Whitworth wan at the wheel and attempted at-tempted to make a turn in the road without slackening sped. Skidding for nearly a hundred fel the automobile plunged irito a telephone tele-phone pole, but did not upset. Thr upper part of the pnle, which was broken fell, with preat force lut ) the automobile, striking Katlin on the head and crushing the other occupants occu-pants of the car against the doors and steering gear. New York, Aug 12. A fil-sorse-powrr aiiti.mohilr-, which was making better than forty miles an hour In a midnight Joy rid across Rtaten Island Isl-and early today, hit an obstruction In |