GRANDSTAND COLLAPSES.
4 : PANIC AT A MOTOR CONTEST. Dy Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright (Rec. August 28, 0.30 a.m.) New York, August 27. A grandstand collapsed at an automobile contest at Elgin, near Chicago. A crowd of some thousands of spectators was involved in tho accident, and three hundred persons were injured. . A panic started, and tho police and soldiers used their clubs on tho terrified people, who streamed over tho course in front of the racing cars. ,• Many of these wero injured and some may dio.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1217, 28 August 1911, Page 5
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85GRANDSTAND COLLAPSES. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1217, 28 August 1911, Page 5
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