Complex sentence: Recovering mail from the crashed DH-4, he continues his journey by train and meets a suspender salesman who tells him that two airmen just died competing for the Orteig Prize awarded to the first to fly nonstop from New York City to Paris.
Split into simpler sentences: Recovering mail from the crashed DH-4, he continues his journey by train. A salesman tells him two airmen just died competing for the Orteig Prize for the first nonstop flight from New York City to Paris.