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BAD ACCIDENTS AT PIPING ROCK. New York, October 13. Four steeplechase jockeys were dangerously hurt yesterday at the autumn race meeting of the Piping Rock Association at Locust Valley, L. I. One died last night and another may be fatally hurt. A crowd of more than 3,000, many of the leading residents of the north shore colony, saw the accidents. William Murphy, who rode the thoroughbreds belonging to Joseph E. Davis, died in the Nassau Hospital from a fracture of the skull; Ernest Heider, one of Americas foremost cross-country riders, is in a temporary hospital in the Piping Rock clubhouse suffering from concussion of the brain and internal injuries; Arthur Lee is at Jamaica with a broken collar bone and Internal injuries, and William Hogan is at his home with a savage gash in the back of liis head and bruises on body and face. So quickly did the accidents follow each other, that it was impossible to give the riders prompt medical attention. Murphy, Hogan and Lee came to grief in the Harbor Hill Cup, while Dr. Sawicki of the Nassau County Hospital was still working over Heider, who had been crushed by the hoofs of his mount in the previous race, the Piping Rock Subscription Steeplechase. In his desire to save Murphys life Dr. Sawicki was compelled to turn Heider over to a local physician, administering only first aid to Hogan and to neglect Lee entirely.
