The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1911-01-05
iATORS meet. DEATH
..lWNED syIAIORS KILLED ON AVlA-
Tl0h FIELDS
JUDGED THE AIR CT. T..RENTS

- mt Los Angeles, is Dashed
= to Earth. Thrilling
= Story of the Death
~ Two Great
Aviators.
John Il. Moisant and Arch HoN-
soy. ayiators extraordinary, were
killed Saturday. Both fell out OF
she treacherous air currents with
VAST height-and Moisants remain
in;: minutes of life were so few as
to count as naught. HoNsey was
killed instantly.
Moisant met his death at 9:55 a.
m. attempting to alight in a field
New miles from New Orleans, La.
hxsey, who went into the air ear
- i'm the afternoon at Los Angeles,
at PIP p. m. a crushed, lifeless
- in view of the thousands who
watching the aviation tourna-
f1us the last day OF 1910, in
Wging the total number
deaths of aviators TO thirty,
ped the list with two of the most
itrious of those airmcn who
L been writing the history OF
btioI ia the skies of two CONT
fits.
Moisant'S Neck Broken.
Moisant. "a Chicagoean by BIRTH
lrer .sn adventurous life in Cen
vi America became Interested IN
Jiation in France, less than Is year
! Ego. After soaring into public rec
Cognition by his plucky flight from
Paris across the English Channel to
London, with Il passenger, Moisant's
i;earlessness and resourcefulness
we're exhibited frequently. Finding
himself without machine, he pur-
ri fIrs y
1OC and within ten minutes, starting
on his winning flight from Belmont
Park, y. Y, around the statue of
Liberty, winning Il prize of SIC, 900.
Saturday a sudden puff of wind
caught him within 500 feet OF the
earth, turned his machine over and
n broken neck terminated his ca
reer
HoXsey's BODY Crushed to Pieces.
Arch HoNsey, after a year of uni
form success with the Wright aero
planes. had gained name for dar-
ing and competence in the air. Only
within the week he had set a new
worlds altitude record of 11,474,
ana then to show his contempt for
the earth, had sailed majectically
more than 1000 feet above Mount
Wilson. To-day he ran afoul of
the same kind of boiling, treacher-
our wind when some 500 feet from
The earth, and n minute later a hor-
rified crowd, aroused from its
shock, was rushing madly to where
I .. broken mass of humanity lay be-
meath a torn bit of canvas and sorle
broken spars.
Both met death in almost the
same manner. Each machine was
headed for the earth and suddenly
seemed to stop, hover in the air,
then turn over OH to it's nose, D."
and dive ,headlong to the earth
and to destruction.
Fell Headlong Tnrough the Air.
Moisant's aerorane was u Bier
lot monoplane, ald i'll addition to
the heavy engine in front of the
main planes he had fastened a
tank holding 35 gallons of gasoline.
Aviation experts believe u sudden
puff OF wind stopped his machine
dead in the air and the heavy
weight ahead dragged the light
framework behind it, Tipping the
then useless elevator. From his po-
sition partly back of the main !
planes. Moisant was flipped out,
clear of the machine, and struck
the ground on his head, breaking
his neck. He died on a flat car up
on which he was being rushed to
NeW oGIedhS.
Rushed TO Death Amid Cheers.
HoXsey, likewise was returning
from a journey into the clouds. He /
was within 500 feet of the earth |
and cheers wree going up To meet
the conquerer of the higher air,
when his machine seemed to stop.
sEudder ana whirl over and over to
the ground. AS in the mornings
tlaSedy, the rear elevator, render
ed useless when the momentum
was gone, flipped around, helpless
10 aid the fated machine. HoXsey
vainly endeavored- to right his craft
ny waTping the main planes and by
Use of the Tudder. Vain attempts,
these, for before sufficiet moment
nm was gained the frail structure
vac crumpled upon the earth, the
heavy engine being torn loose.
Only few farmers and aids saw
hoisant hurled to hisd cath, but
HoAsey's end came before the hor-
rified gaze of thousands who had
come out in the pleasant afternoon
10 waLch the birdmen darting here
and there through the air.
"g'here viii BE No More Flying"
The days pleasures ended when
an announcer, sadly lifting his meg
aphone, droned out the message:
Arch Hoxsey has been killed.
z here will be no more flying to-
day"
Mrs. G. NJ. Hoxsey. of Pasadena.
Gala, missed by mere accident ,
seeing her son meet his death She