FATAL MOTOR SMASH.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1670, 10 February 1913, Page 5

FATAL MOTOR SMASH.

BARON VAN' ZUYLEN KITXED,

.News reached Paris on Dooembor 18 of .' the death of Baron van: Zuylcn van Nvcvolt, as tho result of a motoring accident ■'■•■ m Belgium. Baron.van Nycvelt, in company, with th<v Baroness Bassomnierre, tho"' > Baroness Woot, and Baim'GouVt,. was motoring from• Brussels, to.Antwerp. Near '■■■:. RUmpt onoof the .wheels:,of .tho.auto-.: mobile got stuck in n rut in the roadway,' and tho vehicle swung violently on one' ■ Side. :..,;(•■ .'■■",■ ; '.■•',-. .-- •■■ All four of tho travellers-were dasliod'--' to the ground. Tho ladies/.and Baron"•' Ooflmet; wcro : seriously - injured, but ' escaped with their lives. "But thcvomig Baron van Zuylcn.vaiijNyevolt was killed ipu tho spot.. .. •„, ;!■'.■" -.'.., ....' Baronyaii Zuylon.vanNyovclt, whowas only 2.5 .years of ago, was tho son. of ■'. ■ Baron Ettonno' van'Ztiyleh: van' Nyevblt,' " to. whom motoring,; in Franco' owes i»'' ! much. Baron Etioimo Zuylen van Nverat. who is a member of a very old Netherlands, family, was' at one • time,a ; ■'' ■ famous 'owner of racehorses. But lie threw himself with; enthusiasm' into tho sport of motoring;, a:nd became 'tho founder'"' of the Automobile "Club of Franco, of which ho was the first president—an offic'o ■ which lio holdsnt the present moment.'Jl Along with M. Be Dion and Mr.'Gordon 'Bennett ho initiated one'of' iho earliest ' road-racing , contests,. that of, Paris-,,.' Bordeaux. And ho has .shown ''his iii-• '• terest in the sivort in ui6'ny other ways:" '-.'' ■..;- .Tho young Bnron; Zuylen van Nycvelt V mother 'is n member": of "the''Rothschild' family, His father, in additionto devot' iug.. himself whole-heartedly fo'tho in--' J v forests of motoring..hns,-, followed ..the. development of -aviation,, and was .'elected some;time' ago ail honooary president o,'"'. : the, Aero Clul> of Franco. ' ' . '