Edgar “Red” Kehoe, who acted as mechanician for Kilpatrick in the automobile race at the fair yesterday afternoon, and Emory Campbell narrowly escaped death or serious injury when the steering gear of the machine in which they were riding around the track following the race, went bad and plunged the machine through the fence at one of the turns.
A cotter pin, dropping out of the gear, it was said, was responsible for the accident, the car running wild at the east turn when running at a rate of between 30 and 40 miles an hour, plunging through the board fence and toward a pine trap(?), where it was finally stopped.
The occupants of the car, a “stripped down,” sustained painful lacerations about the face and hands when they struck the wire, which topped the board fence. Neither was seriously injured, however.
Mr. Kehoe had planned to enter the afternoon’s race with his machine as an individual entry, but arrived at the track too late.
From the front page of The New Bernian, Saturday, Oct. 4, 1924
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