MOTOR TRAGEDY.
—• ♦ A RACE FOB. DEATH. (Received Last Night, 10.5 o'clock.) NEW YORK, Sept. 2. Four high-powered racing oars entered on a twenty-five mile race. They raced from Nashville to Tennessee at a speed of sixty miles an hour. The four drivers were killed and several of the occupants injured. The second and third cars dashed into the others after the first collision. Several cars then flashed through the wreckage but their occupants escaped unscathed. A Harbour Day holiday crowd of 5000 people watched the tragedy. There were many hysterical scenes.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 3 September 1913, Page 5
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91MOTOR TRAGEDY. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 3 September 1913, Page 5
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