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ARCHER WINS IN FIFTY-MILE RACEGreat Speed Shown at Motorcycle Races at Cohats-ett Beach SundayARCHER’S 75-MILE PACERaces Attracted Crowd despite Bad Weather, and Were Highly SuccessfulNotwithstanding the rain Sunday morning, quite a crowd took the boat? at Aberdeen and Hoquiam for Westport, to attend the motorcycle races at Cohassett Beach, by the Aberdeen and Hoqpiam Motorcycle club. Although the races were run in the teeth of a 35-mile gale and rain, fast time was made.The riding of Aubrey Archer, of Aberdeen, was the feature of the racer.. He had rode the beach a few days before and had familiarized himsel: with the sand conditions, which enabled him to make as high as 75 miles an hour on the straight stretches, and win the fifty mile race in 40 minutes and 15 seconds. Avid Anderson, of Hoquiam, came in second, and \V. S. McKean, Aberdeen third. The fifty mile race was for 7 H. 1\ machines.The 30-mile race, for 4 h. p. motors was won by Lawrence Larson, of Ho quiam in 36 minutes and 51 and two fifths seconds, with Win Sherk, Aberdeen, second, and (iscar Gould, Aberdeen, third.In the free for all 10 mile go, Ed French of Hoquiam, hit the tape first in 8 minutes and 10 and three-fifths seconds, with Albert Drago, of Aber-FOUR ARE KILLED IN TRAIN WRECKO.-W. Train, Running 65 Miles an Hour, Leaves Track Yesterday AfternoonCAUSE IS NOT KNOWNCrew Works Four Hours Pulling Dead and Wounded From DebrisTACOMA, May 12.—Four aj*e dead and seven injured as a result of the derailment of Oregon-Washington io cal train No. 362, bound from Portland to Seattle, near Lakeview, this afternoon. The train was ditched while speeding at 65 miles an hour ! over a level stretch of track.The dead:F. A. Town, Tacoma.C. E. Reynovaan, Woodland, Cal Andrew Nilssen, Portland.R. H. McMurray, Seattle (brake-man.)The injured:Mrs. Maggie Jordan, Hillhurst, Wash.Francis C. Rae, Seattle.Adolph Swanson, Portland..1. W. Warden, Sacramento.T. J. Quinn, Sacramento.Elmer Johnson, Marshall, Wash. Charles Bennett, Dryad, Wash.All the killed were riding in the three front seats of the smoking car and were crushed beneath the steel baggage coach, which jammed its way 12 feet into the smoker. The bodies were not recovered until several hours after the wreck occurred.'Officials of the Nspthern Pacific and Oregon-Washington Railroad
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Aberdeen Herald
Aberdeen, Washington, US
Tue, May 13, 1913
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