The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-07-09
|0MAK AVIATOR
is MANGLED BY
240-F00T FALL
baroness De La Roche, Famed Fol
Her Daring Feats, Becomes Con-
fused While Making Flight
and Il Dashed To Earth.
keroplane Is Demolished and Her
Unconscious Body Taken
From RuinA.

RHEIMS, July S.--Baroness De La
Roche. the most noted woman aviator
~ France, Is dying today as the result
~ the fall OF her aeroplane at Bethany
Plains. Her machine. Voisin bi'
plane. fell distance OF 240 feet
Both arms and both legs OF the
baroness were broken and she sui
Itred severe internal injuries. She
was rushed to the hospital, but the
physicians offer no hope for her re-
covery.
The aeroplane was demolished The
Incident resulted from the pursuit Of
The baroness machine by two other
nfiators. She had been flying for 10
minutes In the aerodrome when two
other machines whirled along either
aide OF the baroness biplane. She be-
came confused and tried to alight.
She pulled the wrong lever, however,
Md the aeroplane overturned and
dnshed 10 the ground.
Owing to the popularity OF the bar.
Quese the accident occasioned intense
&xcitement. A score OF persons rush
ID to her aid and drew her uncon-
ecious body from the wreckage.
Shortly after being taken 10 the hos
pitai. the Baroness regained conscious
ness long enough to ask whether the
4Yiators who interfered with her flight
had been arrested. when she lapsed
INTO unconsciousness There are num-
erDus bad cuts on her body and her
vitality has been weakened from the
Loss of blood II Is feared that she
sustained a fracture of the skull.
The accident to the Baroness is the
second fatal mishap since the present
meeting began, the first being that or
last Sunday when Charles Wachter
lost his life in a fall.
The Baroness was the first woman
~ receive license as a pilot. She
~ the second woman to be injured
while flying. the other being Nine.
Helene Dutrieux. who fell thirty feet
~ lssy last January.
The baroness was q noted sports
woman and achieved fame as an auto
mobile driver, motor cyclist and a
horsewoman before taking up aviation
last October. She drove a powerful
alltpmobile from Berlin to Madrid In
4 nerve-racking race and finished with
high honors,
LAST January, on the very day that
Leon DE LAGrange was killed while
Nying a Bordeaux the baroness was
Injured in flight at Mourmelon. She
feceiyed the news OF De LaGrange's
death q short time before she ascend
ia and suffered a nervous collapse
while in the air from thinking OF her
Nsend's tragic end.
The baroness made flight at He'll
bpolis, near Cairo, Egypt. last Feb
fnary.
Record breaking flights were again
the order OF the day at the big avia-
tion meeting here. Hubert Latham.
began the performances with new
f0cord for the hundred miles, making
the distance In hours and minutes.
The Belgian Olieslagers, who yester-
days. broke the record for continuous
instance flying, going $50 miles in 8
hours. SO minutes and 80 seconds, set
out today TO pass this mark. At the
and Of hours and 35 minutes he had
covered 125 miles.
The probably fatal accident to the
Harpncss De La Roche dampened the
Enthusiasm OF the aviators and COM
ueratively few OF them were in the
Ar today.