SPEEDWAY DEATH TOLL: 2 DEAD, 2 DYING

MULFORD WINS RACE AT 86 MILES AN HOUR

COOPER AND KELLER DIE

Driver Chandler and One Mechanic May Not Survive.

BULLETIN.

At 2:10 o'clock Sunday morning, G. Decker French, representative of the contest board of the American Automobile association, officially declared Ralph Mulford, Duesenberg driver, as winner of the 300-mile race. Ralph DePalma had been announced unofficialy as the winner. Mulford's time was given as three hours, 27 minutes and 5.35 seconds, or an average of 86.91 miles an hour. The change in result was announced only after a midnight examination of all time records of the race. DePalma was awarded second place.

The Des Moines speedway was dedicated in a baptism of blood Saturday afternoon.

The speed lust has already cost 2 lives while 2 other victims are dying at local hospitals as the result of injuries received in the big 300-mile speedway race. The promoters of the $90,000 traack readped thousands of dollars. It was the tracks first race and the estimated paid attendance was between $10,000 and $15,000. The offial winner of the race has not yet been announced.

THE DEAD:

Joe Cooper, 28, Sebring, Ohio driver of Sebring Special; body mangled and crushed; killed instantly as car crashed over railing to bottom of grandstand.

Morris Keller, 50, St. Paul, mechanician for Billy Chandler; back broken, two ribs broken, chest crushed and internal injuries; died at Mercy hospital.

THE INJURED:

Billy Chandler, 25, Fairhaven, N.J., Duesenberg driver; hip broken, chest crushed, internal injuries; condition critical; at Mercy hospital; car skidded of track, turned turtle against barbed wire fence.

George Piero, 50, Sebring, Ohio, Cooper's mechanician; two ribs fractured; chest crushed; internal injuries; condition critical; at Methodist hospital.

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