Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1911-01-13
AWAT0RS KILLED
FALL FROM AEROPlANES A.
NEW ORLEANS AND LOS
ANGELES.
HOxSEY and McISANT
Total Deaths From Aviation NO"
Thirty-five, With Five In Closing
Week of the
Year.

Chicago. H.. - John B. Molsan1
and Arch Hoxsey, ayiators eXtraordln.
airy, were instantly killed. Both Tell
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 $3.50 a. M
attempting to alight in field rev
miles from New Orleans. Hoxsey'
who went into the air early IN the
afternoon at Los Angeles, lay, at 2:I2
D. M, crushed, lifeless mass in plain
view of the thousands who were
watching the aviation tournament.
Moisant, a Chicagoan by birth, al.
ter an adventurous life in Central
America, became interested in avia'
ton in France less than year ago.
He scared into public recognition by
his plucky flight from Paris across
the English channel to London, with
a passenger, and later, finding himself
without machine, by buying one from
a friend and within ten minutes start
ing on his winning flight from Belmont
Park, New York, around the Statue OF
Liberty, for a prize of $4,000.
Hoxsey Falls 500 Feet.
Arch Hoxsey, after 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
week, he had set new worlds alt1-
tude record Of 11,474 feet, and then to
show his contempt for the earth, had
sailed majestically over Mt. Wilson,
ran afoul of the same kind Of shifty,
boiling, treacherous wind when mat
Ter of some 500 feet in the air, and a
minute later Mortified crowd, aroused
from its shock, realized that 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. 4.
LIE Blon, Hubert, at San Sebastian,
Spain, April 2.
Michelin, HaCvette, at Lyons,
France. May IS.
De Zosely, Aindan, at Buda Pest,
Hungary, juno 2.
Robl, Thaddeus at Stettin, Ger
many, June IS.
Wachter. Charles, at Rheims,
France, July 8.
Rolls, Hon. Charles Stewart, at
Boulnemouth. England, July -.
kinet, Daniel, at Client, Belgium,
July 10.
Kinet, Nichols, at Brussels, Bel.
GUM, Aug. :.
Vivaldi, Marquist, Lieut.. of Italian
army, near Rome, Aug. 20.
Van Maasdyk, A., near Arnheim,
Netherlands, Aug. q.
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. T.
Madiot, Captain, at Douai, France.
Oct. %.
Mente, Lieut.. at Madgeburg, Ger
many, Oct. Is.
Blanchard, Fernando, at Issy les
Molineaux, France, Oct. 27.
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 Paulo, 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.