River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-01-05
AYIATORS KILLED.
FALL FROM AEROPLANES AT
NEW ORLEANS AND LOS
ANGELES.
HOXSEY and M0ISANT
Total Deaths From Aviation Now
Thirty-five, With Five In Closing
Week of the
Year.

Chicago, III. John B. Moisant
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 field few
miles from New Orleans. Hoxsey,
who went into the air early in the
afternoon at Los Angeles, lay, at 2:12
p. M, a crushed, lifeless mass in plain
view of the thousands who were
watching the aviation tournament.
Moisant, Chicagoan by birth, af-
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 a machine, by buying one from
friend and within ten minutes start
ing on his winning flight from Belmont
Park, New York, around the Statue of
Liberty, for 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 II Ala 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 a mat
ter of some 500 feet in the air, and a
minute later Mortified crowd, aroused
from it's 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 lis. for the year fol-
lows:
De Lagrange, Leon. at Bordeaux,
France, Jan. 4.
lie Blon, Hubert, at San Sebastian,
Spain, April 2.
Michelin, HaTvette, at Lyons,
France, May Is.
De Zosely, Aindan, at Buda Pest,
Hungary, June 2.
Robl, Thaddeus at Stettin, Ger
many, June 18.
Wachtsr, Charles, at Rheims,
France, July 8.
Rolls, Hon. Charles Stewart, at
Bournemouth, England, July IL.
Kinet, Daniel, at Client, Belgium,
July 10.
Kinet, Nichols, at Brussels, Bel
GUM, Aug. 3.
Vivaldi, Marquist, Lieut.. of Italian
army, near Rome, Aug. 20.
Van Maasdyk, A, near Arnheim,
Netherlands, Aug. 81.
Poillot, Edmond, Charities, France,
Sept. %.
Chavez, George S., at Domondossola,
Italy, Sept. 27.
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. %.
Mente, Lieut., at Madgeburg, Ger.
many, Oct. 25.
Blanchard, Fernando, at Issy les
MolineauX, France, Oct. q.
Sagliette, Lieut., at Centesella, Italy,
Oct. q.
tombstone, Ralph, at Denver, Colo,
No II.
olace, Cecil s.. lost in English
Channel Dec. %.
Senior Piccolo Sac Paulo, Brazil,
Dec. &c.
Laffort, Alexandg, 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.