MOTOR CAR FATALITY.
AUTOMQBILfST KILLED. - ij Telegr«ph.~ Vtm Association.— Copyrtfn* (Received Attguet 28, 9 a.m.) NEW YORK, 27th Attgtat. Lusk, a veteran automobtlist, was travelling at a speed of sixty-five tndea an hour at Elgin, Illinois, when his machine cast a tyre. Lusk was thmwa. out. Jacobs, the mechanician, wa» killed outright. , • TEN PERSONS LOSE THEIR LIVES. LONDON, 27th August. A motor charabanc wae conveying thirty choristers near Consett, in Durham, when tho brakes failed, emd th# conveyance dashed downhill at a terrific ' pace. > It collided with a tree, and five men and five women were killed, whiio two girls lie in a precarious state. The remainder of the passenger* are injured.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXII, Issue 50, 28 August 1911, Page 7
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