The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1911-05-26
HENRI n. eERTEAUx DEAD,
PRIME MINISTER MONS AND
SON INJURED.
2OO.OOOStf THE TRAGEDY
De la Mourthe, Well Known Sports.
man, Also Hurt-Pilot and Passen-
ger Of IlI.Fated Craft Escape
Without a Scratch.

Paris. France. - 4 lonoplane. the
iriyer OF which lost control, plunged
INTO a group of members of the cab
net, who had gathered to witness the
start OF The race from Paris to Ma
irid, killing the minister of war and
njuring the prime minister, his son
and 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 aerOnautics.
a large number Of other persons OF
tote had narrow escapes from injury.
The accident occurred on the aviation
field at Issy Les Molineaux, where
100000 persons had gathered to see
he start of the race.
NJ. Train was plotting the mono
plane that wrought such havoc. With
aim 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-
IDLY mangled. The swiftly revolving
propeller cut of cleanly his left arm.
which was found ten feet away from
he spot where he was struck; the
back of his head was crushed in. his
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eft side cut and lacerated.
Premier Monis was buried beneath
he 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
light leg; that his nose was broken.
his face badly confused. and that there
we're bruises on the breast and abdo-
men
NJ. Deutsch and NJ. Monis were not
seriously hurt.
among those who had narrow es.
,apes from injury was NJ. Lepine. the
Drefect of police.
The breeze had been steadily fresh
aning and the meteorological observer
the Eiffel Tower telephoned that
his gauge showed a velocity OF close
o 80 miles an hour.
Train. however. left the ground.
Ascending swiftly. he circled the great
ield, curving round to the starting
inc, 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-
nentarily 10 have been diverted from
his course, and he made a quick turn
% the left, toward where the party of
,ontrol of the craft altogether and ii
dashed violently into the ministerial
group.
The impact knocked NJ. Berteaux 10
'eet away. where he lay in a pool OF
blood. badly mangled, while under tho
! Treckage of the monoplane lay Pre-,
nier Monis. his son and Mr.. Deutsch.
Train and NJ. Bounier emerged from
he 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
ems of thousands OF persons broke
through the lines and moved toward
he scene of the accident. The caval
y, by repeated charges. managed 70
,lear the field, and the injured men
we're given Observation-Disclosures treat
nent by the field surgeons.
There are various versions as "a
he cause Of the accident. but every
)ne seems agreed that IL occurred with
such frightful rapidity that there was
10 time for Mr.. Berteaux, NJ. Monis
and the others injured to escape.
NJ. BerteauX' body was placed In
I closed automobile and escorted from
he field by a squadron of dragons
With swords at salute. while tens Of
thousands of persons stood uncovered
4he body of the late minister of wal
- at the ministry in the same room
rom which his predecessor. Genera
Brun, was buried.
BADGER VETERANS HoNoREo