The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1911-05-25
IS DEADLY
HENRI M. BERTEAUx DEAD,
PRIME MINISTER MONS AND
SON INJURED.
2OO,OOOSEE THE TRAGEDY
De La Mourthe, Well Known Sports.
man, Also Hurt-Pilot and Passen-
ger of Inflated Craft Escape
Without a Scratch.

Paris, France. - A ~monoplane, the
driver of which lost control, plunged
into a group of members of the cab
met, who had gathered to witness the
start of the race from Paris to Ma
drid, killing the minister Of war and
injuring the prime minister, his son
and a well known sportsman.
The Dead.
Henri Maurice Berteaux, minister OF
war.
The Injured.
Antoine Emmanuel Ernest Monis,
premier and minister of the interior.
Antoine Monis, son of the premier.
Henri Deutsch De La Mourthe, the
aged patron of a~eronautics.
A large number of other persons Of
note had narrow escapes from injury.
The accident occurred on the aviation
field at Issy Les Molineaux, where
100000 persons had gathered to see
the start of the race.
NJ. Train was plotting the mono
plane that wrought such havoc. With
him in the car was Nj. Bounier, a pas
senger. Neither of these men was
injured. The machine was wrecked.
Minister Of War Berteaux was hor-
ribly mangled. The swiftly revolving
propeller cut off clearly his left arm,
which was found ten feet away from
the spot where he was struck; the
back of his head was crushed in, his
throat gashed and the whole of his
left side cut and lacerated.
Premier Monis was buried beneath
the wreckage of the ~monoplane. He
was taken out as quickly as possible
and examined by military surgeons
who found that he had sustained com
pound fractures of two bones in the
right leg; that his nose was broken,
his face badly confused, and that there
were bruises on the breast and abdo-
men.
M. Deutsch and M. Monis were not
seriously hurt.
Among those who had narrow es-
capes from injury was NJ. Lepfne, the
project of police.
The breeze had been steadily fresh
eullS anu Tie SItOlObOSlCd oDSSIN z
in the Eiffel Tower ~telephoned that
his gauge showed a velocity OF close
to 80 miles an hour.
Train. however, left the ground.
Ascending swiftly, he circled the great
field, curving round to the starting
line, and then, flying down the course
at a 40-mile-an-hour gait, the machine
rocking in the gusty wind.
The pilots attention seemed mo-
mentarily to have been diverted from
his course, and he made a quick turn
to the left, toward where the party of
officials were standing. Then he lost
control of the craft altogether and it
dashed violently into the ministerial
group.
The impact knocked NJ. Berteaux 10
feet away, where he lay in a pool Of
blood, badly mangled, while under the
wreckage of the monoplane lay Pre-
mier Monis, his son and Mr.. Deutsch.
Train and M. Bounier emerged from
the wreck uninjured.
A scene of frightful confusion fol-
lowed the fall Of the ~monoplane.
From all parts Of the aviation field
arose cries of alarm and dismay, and
tens of thousands of persons broke
through the lines and moved toward
the scene of the accident. The caval-
ry, by repeated charges, managed to
clear the field, and the injured men
were given first-aid-to-the-injured treat
ment by the field surgeons.
There are various versions as to
the cause of the accident, but every
one seems agreed that it occurred with
such frightful rapidity that there was
nj time for Mr.. Berteaux, M. Monis
and the others injured to escape.
M. Berteaux' body was placed in
a closed automobile and escorted from
the field by a squadron of Dragons,
with swords at salute, while tens of
thousands of persons stood uncovered.
The body of the late minister of war
lies at the ministry in the same room
from which his predecessor, General