MOTOR MISHAPS.
CABLE NEWS.
United Press Association—By Electrio Telegraph Copyright,
I CAR GOES OVER EMBANKMENT. FIVE PERSONS KILLED. Received August 5, 9 a.m. SAN FRANCISCO. August 4. A motor car's emergency brakes at San Francisco snapped, and the car fell over a steep embankment. Mrs M'Cormick and her daughter, aged 8, and Mrs O'Brio.n and her son and baby were killed. The M'Cormick and O'Brien families are well-known in San Francisco. Two of the occupants of the car esraped uninjured. A CAR LEAVES RACING TRACK. ONE MAN KILLED. • Received August 5, 9 a.m. NEW YORK, August 4. A 76 horse-power Mercedes car, running 210 miles an hour on the Brooklands track, left the track and shot the occupants 100 feet across the river, killing Burke, the mechanician, and seriously injuring Lane, the driver.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9160, 6 August 1908, Page 5
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133MOTOR MISHAPS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9160, 6 August 1908, Page 5
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