SPEED BOAT DISASTER
- MILLIONAIRE’S ESCAPE (United Service.) NEW YORK, August 14. Mr.. Gar Wood, a millionaire, who builds speed boats fast enough to beat mile-a-minute trains, narrowly escaped death when his lat• st creation, Miss Amorim V 1.,• literally raced herself to death in the Detroit river. Her estimated speed was 105 miles an hour, when tint engines literally blew themselves through Ihe bottom of tin 1 boat.
Spectators were watching the swiftly moving streak, when the crash came like an explosion, and Wood mid the engineer were tossed in the air. There is no sign of the engines among the wreckage.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16724, 16 August 1928, Page 7
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102SPEED BOAT DISASTER Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16724, 16 August 1928, Page 7
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