"It happened on the fourth run' down the course," writes a. North-China Herald" representative who witnessed the accident," Ramps were placed on the dirt, track and the drivers guided one side of the up this ramp to bounce it in the:
it and Jet it' settle back on its wundering course. After the second successful run, the ramps were raised to a thirty degree incline, The frst time both ears came through in good order."
"On the fourth attempt at much higher speed, the first ear went up the ramp, bounced down, swerved 10 the right, and my heart was in my. mouth as it missed the ground crew on the right of the track by inches. Something seemed to tell me. that the car right behind would not make it—the same thrill seemed to. run' through the crowded stands behind:
"He hit the left ramp, up he went and down—when the same thing happened as to his colleague, but he could not bring the car back. Straight for the official table went the Yorty-mile-anchor missile of death, A crash, a lurch and it was over. A woman in a yellow dress, was" seen by the horrified crowds hurtling through the air, bodles seemed to fly in all directions, mixed up with the white-washed fence of the track. After ploughing through the "I ran forward as did scores of others, Police were already on the scene and but a few moments passed before the ambulances were there, Mud-covered victims wore dragged out of the creek. One, apparently the worst injured of all,' was carried over the track and Into the stands Another could not be litted on to stretcher until rough splints had bound up his broken leg "Nr, Carl Schooss was giving a running commentary on the programme which was ended when he was hit by the car itself, Only a few moments before, he had objected over the loudspeaker to the close presence of many spectators on the track, he even took exception to a daring newsreel cameraman who was lying down ready to take the ter~ rifying shots which are so much a part of a modern film of this variety, "So little did he realize the danger to himself and the oMelals at the table, It is easy to know why after an accident, of course, but it had already seemed foolhardy to many in the stands that the table should have been in the position it was, forward of the ramps, Just past where the cars bumped back to earth. The narrowness of the track raught them apparently too close to the roaring cars."
Two ambulances and the Rescue Yan turned out, but only one of the former was needed, Police constables and Race Course watchmen endea-youred to Keep the crowd back, but were unable to stop large numbers of people from milling about the scene of the disaster, excitedly dislssing'the resident they had witt While the injured people were ing rushed to the Country Hospital, where they were placed in the hands of Dr. W. H, Gardiner, a break-down van and 'a jarge body of workmen dragged the car out of the creek, where it had been lying almost on lls side, Part of the windshield was tacked and the radiator grille broken and twisted, No other signs of damage could bg seen, and the ar, once righted, drfve off under its own power,
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