SPEED BOAT WRECKED
ENGINES GO THROUGH BOTTOM. NARROW ESCAPE. Mr G. A. It. Wood, a millionaire Who builds (speedboats fas|t enough to beat si mile-a-minute train, narrowly escaped deatli when ]ii s latest cre-i ation, Miss America VI. literally raced herself to deatli in the Detroit) River. The boat estimated speed was 105' miles an hour when the engines literally blew themselves through tbej 'bottom of the boat. Spectators were watching the swiftly moving streak when the crash aune like an explosion. Mr WoofJ and the engineer were tossed; into the air. There was no sign of tiie engines among the wreckage.
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Stratford Evening Post, Issue 18, 16 August 1928, Page 2
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