The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1911-01-06
M0|SANT AND
HOXSEY KILLED
FALL FROM AERoPLANEs AT
NEW ORLEANS AND Los
ANGELES.
BODIES ARE CRUSHED TOA PULP
Total Deaths From Aviation Now
Thirty-five, With Five In Closing
Week Of the
Year.

and Arch Hoxsey, aviators eXtraordin-
airy, were instantly killed. Both fell
out of the air with their machines
neither from a great height-and Moi
SAINTS remaining minutes of life were
SO few as to count as naught. Hoxsey
was killed instantly.
Moisant met his death at 9:55 a. m.
attempting to alight in a field a few
miles from New Orleans. Hoxsey,
who went into the air early in the
afternoon at Los Angeles, lay, at ZIP
p. m, a crushed, l~ifeless mass in plain
view Of the thousands who were
watching the aviation tournament.
Moisant, a Chicagoan by birth, af.
ter an adventurous life in Central
America, became interested in avia-
ton in France less than a year age
He scared into public recognition by
his plucky fight from Paris across
the English channel to London, with
a passenger, and later, finding himself
without a machine, by buying n from
a friend and within ten minutes start
ing on his winning fight from Belmont
Park, New York, around the Statue of
Liberty, for a prize of $4,000.
Hoxsey Falls 500 Feet.
Arch Hoxsey, after a year of uni
form success with the Wright aero.
plane in which he had come to have a
name for fearlessness and competence
in the air, and in which, only within a
week, he had set a new worlds alti-
tude record of 11,474 feet, and then to
show his contempt for the, earth, had
sailed majestically yer Mt. Wilson,
ran afoul of the same kind of shifty,
boiling, treacherous wind when a mat
ter Of some 500 feet in the air, and a
minute later a Mortified crowd, aroused
from its shock, realized that a broken
mass of humanity lay beneath a torn
bit of canvas and some broken spars.
Thus the last day of 1910, in bring.
ing the total number of deaths of those
who have sought to fly, to 35, capped
the list with two of the most illustri-
Gus of those ~aviators who have been
writing the history of aviation in the
SKY of two continents.
The Death List.
Complete death list for the year fol
lows:
De Lagrange, Leon, at Bordeaux,
France, jan. A.
lie Blon, Hubert, at San Sebastian
Spain. April q.
Michelin, Harvette, at Lyons,
France, May 13.
De Zosely, Aindan, at Buda Pest.
Hungary, June 2. 7
Robl, Thaddeus at Stettin, Ger,
many, June Is.
Wachter, Charles, at Rheims,
France, July 3.
Rolls. Hon. Charles Stewart, al
Bournemouth, England, July IL.
Kinet, Daniel, at Client, Belgium,
July 10.
Kinet, Nichols, at Brussels. Bel
GUM, Aug. 8.
Vivaldi, Marquist, Lieut.. of italian
army, near Rome, Aug. 20.
Van Maasdyk, A., near Arnheim,
Netherlands, Aug. 81.
Poillot, Edmond, Chartres, France,
Sept. 25.
Chavez, George s.. at Domondossola,
Italy, Sept. 81.
Plochman, at Mulhausen, Germany,
Sept. %.
Hans, Heinrich, at Wallen, Germany
Sept. %.
Maziewich, Captain, at st. Peters.
burg, Russia, Oct. Z.
Madiot, Captain, at Douai, France,
Oct. 23.
Mente, Lieut., at M~adgeburg, Ger
many, Oct %.
Blanchard. Fernando, at Issy les
Molineaux, France, Oct. 81.
Sagliette. Lieut., at Centesella. Italy,
Oct. 81.
tombstone, Ralph. at Denver, Colo,
Nov. II.
Grace, Cecil, s.. lost in English
Channel, Dec. %.
Senior Piccolo Sac PauIo. Brazil,
Dec. 26.
Laffort, Alexander. Paris. France,
Dec. %.
Paula, Marquis. Paris. France, Dec,
De Caumont, Lieut.. at Styr. France,
Dec. 80.
Moisant. John B.. New Orleans,
Dec. 81.
Hoxsey, Arch. Los Angeles. Dec. 81.