The Archive · 1926

MOTOR-CAR DISASTER 42 BOULOGNE

'A Racing Crash: Famous Driver and Spectator Killed Boulogne, Aug. 26.

'A motor-ear race meeting opened disastrously here to-day.

The famous Brooklands rider, Captain Howey, during a hill test failed to take the second bend, and his car dashed among the spectators Captain Howey himself was ki ed instantly. One spectator was Killed, a gendarme's leg was broken and another onlooker had his leg cut off. The injured were removed to hospital—Reuter.

Pittsburg, Aug. 24.

His demand for $2,000 being refused, a man hurled a bomb at the Farmers' Deposit and Savings Ban to-day, wrecking the interior of the! hi ug whose sixteen storeys rocked with ths violence of the explosion, The man's head was blown off, two bank policemen were seriously injured and a score of other pee sons were hurt—Reuter.

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