New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-07-09
WOMAN AERONAUT FALLS
Baroness de Lar0Che Loses Con-
troll at Rheims.
ARMS AND LEGS BROKEN
Physicians Hold Out Some Hope
of Recovery-Several
Records Made.
STANDING IN THE AERoPLANE-

Betheny pIaln, Rheims, July 81 ne
second distressing accident of the avia-
ton meeting now being held here oc-
CURED to-day, when the Baroness de La
roche driving Voisin biplane. lost her
nerve at height of fifty metres, shut
off the power and fell with her machine
to the ground Both legs and arms were
broken. and she also suffered severe con-
tusions. but the doctors who have her
case in hand hope for her ultimate re-
covery. At first it was believed the bar
oness had sustained a fracture of the
skull.
At a height of eighty metres the bar
ones had flown once around the big field.
The spectators in the grandstand were
applaudfng her vociferously- Suddenly
she appeared to become frightened at
the approach of two other aeroplanes,
one of which. a Sommer. driven by NJ.
Lindpaintner, passed directly over her.
The baroness, in a period of conscious
ness after the accident, said that the
rush of air from the motor overhead had
thrown her into CONSERVATION and that
she cut the ignition and lost control of
her biplane- At first the machine glided
on an even keel, but suddenly it turned
over and fell like a meteorite to the
ground.
The crowds rushed out on the field
and tenderly extricated the mangled
form of the woman from the wreckage.
She was conveyed hurriedly in an am
bulance to a nearby hospital. Mean
while, Lindpaintner had descended. and
the crowd. believing him to have been
responsible for the accident. threatened
to lynch him. Gendarmes, however,
threw a Gordon around the aviator and
dispersed the excited spectators An in
quiry by the judges committee into the
accident showed later that Lindpaintner
was in no way responsible for it.
The first accident of the meeting oc-
Cured last Sunday. the opening day,
when Charles Wachter's Antoinette
monoplane collapsed at height of five
hundred feet. and dropped like a stone,
instantly killing Wachter.
Two aeronauts broke the records for
$50 kilometres at the meeting here to-
day. Hubert Latham covered the dis
lance in . hours / minute and Sec
onds, and afterward the Belgian. Ollie
slayer did it in / hour IS minutes and
200 kilometre O24 30 miles, record to
2 hours So minutes and IS seconds
Olieslager, not satisfied with his rec
ord for the $50 kilometres, set out again
and cut it to 1 hour 81 minutes Of 20
seconds. He used a Bleriot machine.
Two other, records were broken during
the day, both of them by M. Leblanc,
first was the ten kilometres. which was
made in 6 minutes SO 4-5 seconds. and
the second the five kilometres. the time
for which was minutes II As seconds.
In the single flight for distance. the
prize for which was $1,000. OliesIager
in a Bleriot won. He covered 40 miles
in . hours 50 minutes % 1-5 seconds.
The performances of Baroness de Laroche
on a Voisin machine have been much
talked of in Paris. This was not the first
nnishap. on January last she was seri-
ously injured at the Chalons field. In cir
cling the touiSc With Hei DiPisiiic SiiC maui
a wide turn and crashed into a tree, being
unable TO elevate her machine quickly
enough to dodge 1t. She fell from a height
of twenty feet. and was taken to the Mill
tary Hospital in an unconscious condition
Her right shoulder was dislocated. and in
ternal injuries were feared. but she recov-
cred soon
In February last the French Aero Club
cav, Baroness de Laroche an air pilots IL
cense for her feat in flying four times
Ground the aviation course at Heliopolis. a
distance of twelve miles
The baroness was one of the pioneers of
aviation. She HAD also driven motorboats
in races and automobiles at exhibitions.
and as soon as flying became practical she
learned how to manage the biplane- There
are seven other women aeronauts IN