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By Blythe Q. Hendricks
First serious accident at the Speedway this year occured today when L. L. Corum crashed into the wall in one of Ralph De Palma’s cars Which he was to drive in the 500-mile race Saturday.
Corum was not hurt. The car will be out of the race.
News of the accident provided an advance thrill for the throngs arriving early for the race.
The accident occured shortly before noon at the first turn. Corum was driving at better than 100 miles an hour when his car, De Palma’s “Bobtail” Miller Special, skidded and turned completely around, stradling the inside retaining wall.
There is one striking fact in regard to the conduct of the war on the part of the rebel officials—the apparent disregard of the loss of life or property of the masses of the people—recklessness is apparent in all their actions. But the faithlessness of their conduct toward their rank and file in the army we have noticed on many occasions. Mr. Raymond, of the New York Times, paid a visit to Williamsburg, after the battle at that place, and gives a description of the cruel manner in which their own wounded were treated by the rebels—when the surgeons did make their appearance a long time after the battle, they seemed to pay little regard to the privates. Mr. Raymond gives the substance of a conversation with one of these poor fellows :