The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1910-09-29
PERUVIAN FLIES
OVER ALPS.
FEAT OF AGES ACCOM-
PLISFED IN SWITZERLAND
On Wings of the Wind George Cha
vex Rides Over the Alpine
Heights, Making the Ma
= pleonic Routes I'm Less
Than an Hour.
Than an Hour.


capped Alpine barrier between Swift
zerland and Italy in a heavier-than-
air machine was accomplished to-
day by George Cravez, the young
Peruvian aviator.
The plucky hero of the exploit,
however, lies tonight in a local
hospital badly injured as the result
of an accident that occurred just
as he had completed the most ardu-
GUS and nerve-racking portion of a
task he had set out to accomplish
a flight from Brig, Switzerland,
across the Alps to Milan in Italy,
In all a distance of about seventy
five miles.
Met With Serious Accident.
Both his legs are broken, his left
thigh is fractured and his body is
badly confused; but the physicians
in attendance are of the opinion
that these hurts will not prove fatal
md that unless unlocked for COM
locations ensue Chavez will be
bout in two months.
The accident occurred as Chavez
was endeavoring to make a landing
here. The Alps had been crossed
successfully and the aviator was de-
scending with the power of his ma
chine cut Off
When about thirty feet above the
ground a sudden gust of wind SEEM
ed to catch the monoplane, which
turned over and fell. When the
crowds that had been watching the
descent ran up they found Chavez
lying bleeding and unconscious be-
meath the twisted wreckage.
Fifty miles away lay Milan. the
deavor to win a prize of $4,000,
offered by the Italian Aviation So
ciety. Chavez had lost the race.
'sIqslOAsH ssousasuInoLIO
The weather at Brig was clear
and bright when Chavez made his
start. Leaving the ground with his
motor running full speed he rose in
sweeping circles until he reached an
altitude sufficient for him to clear
the shoulder to the southeastward
e Brig. This obstacle having been
,rcom }, the aviator headed his
,jnoplane straight for the snow
capped crags of the Fletchern.
Constantly ascending Chavez reach
ed the Simplon Kuhn, where at the
altitude estimated at 1900 feet he
turned his machine south over the
terrifying Simpion Pass, with the
Kaltwasser Glacier at his left and
the frozen peaks of Pubschhcrn at
his right.
AfteT crossing the divide Chavez
atrned to the towering white noun
I'm head of Mt. Leone, which rises
~ height of 1854 feet, and pass
roc, down above the Condo Gorge,
49, he reached the open valley of
Oh -, ard then descended easily
+bo. tr,omodossola, which is $50
a45 > ere sea level. 1t was here
-, accident occurred.
.rho seat Worlds Record.
,. !, of the spectators of the
c1air,ad that Chavez, after cross
oo,hi Mmplon Pass. followed the
don. co., route over the MoRGer
vo-1a and h is 5000 feet above the
.na ,oad,,o II this be 80 1t Is pos
ero,oh .o the Peruvian beat his
ro,s ae rs record for height of
! recall
active a,'nty-five miles between
to,,, ,.;,r, Domodossola which II
wbicb ba ,rmies of Napoleon a fort.
,bi,a iegotiate, Chavez accom-
b,ncb r,it, the route of the eagle
banio n, forty minutes. From the
mon - III, at Monzera. he descend
ambi++oros ct in thirteen minutes
u,a, ni.;,as, gaining in momentum
q, o,bau. r,er the tumble of tow
tbat ooa..,o lies and hills beyont
tho ~ ~, led was terrific as Il
.nnrao;., led the aerodrome here
~, -. ubtless caused the accident
ba Ill, Irned the cheer OF admira
30 .ha the waiting crowd into cries
th.t ~ or when the machine came
:, a. to the ground just as il
- ed that Chavez was about tc
would Il II safety.
Sou oo w Accident Happened.
-. ''eatment in the hospita
oo., ined consciousness. bu
ana n,.vea 20 explain how the ac
nos,,ions occurred. The generally
One Of y opinion is that the accident
"a .sy-s to n slight shift in the rud