The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1911-01-05
TWO AIRMEN KILLED
in FALLS TO EARTH
Hoxey, at Los Angeles and
Moisant, at New Orleans, Meet
Death In Awful Manner.

| 6otn Tell out or the treacnerouS air with
their manifestations from vast height
| and Moisants remaining minutes or life
were SO few as to count for naught.
Hoxsey was killed instantly.
Moisant met his death at 9:55 a. M. at
tempting to alight In q field a few miles
from New Orleans. La.
HOxsey, who went into the afr early "
the afternoon at Los Angeles, Cal. al
Ala p. m. lay a crushed. lifeless mass irs
view OF the thousands who were watching
the aviation tournament. Thus the last
day of 1910, In bringing the total number
Of deaths OF those who have sought to en-
ulate the birds to S. capped the list with
two of the most illustrious or those airmen
who have been writing the history OF avia.
ton I'm the skies Of two continents.
Moisant. a Chicagoan by birth, after an
adventurous life in Central America. be-
come interested in aviation In France less
than year ago. After soaring into pub
lie recognition by his plucky fight from
Paris across the English channel to Lon
don with a passenger and later finding
himself without machine, by buying one
from a friend and within 10 minutes start
ing on his winning fight from Belmont
park. New York, around the Statue OF
Liberty for a prize of $4,000. Moisant came
to have name for fearlessness I'm the air.
Saturday sudden puff OF wind caught
him within 500 feet of the earth, turned his
machine and broken neck terminated his
career
Crowd is Paralyzed.
: Arch Hoxsey. after year OF uniform
success with the Wright aeroplane. in
which he had come to have a name for
fearlessness and in which only within the
week ne had set a new worlds altitude
record of 11.474 feet and then had sailed
more than 1000 feet above the highest
mountain In California, ran afoul or the
same shifty, treacherous wind, when a.
matter Of some 500 feet in the air and in a
minute a Mortified crowd aroused from
its shock, was rushing madly to where
broken mass Of humanity lay beneath a
torn bit of canvas and some broken bars.
Both met death in almost the same man
ner. Each machine was headed for the
earth and suddenly seemed to stop. hover.
then turn over onto its nose" and dive
headlong to the earth-and to destruction.
Moisant's aeroplane was Bleriot mono
plane and In addition to the heavy engine
in front Of the main planes. he had fast
ened a tank holding IS gallons of gasoline
Aviation experts believe a sudden puff OF
wind stopped his machine in the air and
the heavy weight ahead dragged the light
framework behind It, Tipping the then USE
less rear elevator toward the zenith In de-
rision.
Suffers Broken Neck.
From his position partly back OF the
main planes Moisant was tipped out. clear
Of the machine and struck the ground on
his head. breaking his neck He died on
a flatcar on which ne was being rushed to
New Orleans.
Hoxsey, likewise was returning from
journey in the clouds. He was within 300
feet of the earth and cheers were going
up to meet him. when his machine. like
wise, seemed to stop still. shndder and
whirl over and over to the ground. As I'm
the morning tragedy. the rear elevator
rendered useless when the momentum was
gone, topped around useless Hoxsey
vainly endeavored to right his craft by
-warping the main planes and by the use
of the rudder. Vain attempts they were,
for before sufficient nom entum waA
gained the structure crumpled and fell tc
earth, the heavy engine being torn loose.
Tragedy Record Of Year.
= Counting Hoxsey and Moisant, q avi,
ators and their passengers were killed In
1910 in falls from heavier than air ma,
chimes, against five in the two years pre-
vious. And those three years comprise the
working history Of the sport. for 1t was liz
1908 that Lieutenant Thomas Z. Selfridge
u. s. A., fell with Orville Wright In the
first public trial of the aeroplane at Fort
Myer. He was the first passenger and the
first man killed in self sustained ma,
chine.
year. are: tombstone, Moisant and Hox.
sey.
The records Of aviation In 1910 bore out
the forebodings Of those veterans, who.
when novices first began to flock the air
warned: Watch the death list
The complete list Of the year Is:
DE la Grange, Leon. at Bordeaux, France
4.
LIE BIon. Hubert. at San Sebastian.
Spain. April g.
Micheln, Hauvette. at Lyons. Franco
May 13.
De zosely, Aindan. at Budapest. Hun.
gary, June Q.
Robl. Thaddeus, at stettin. Germany,
June IS.
wachter. Charles. at Reims. France
July 8.
Ilinet Daniel. at Client. Belgium, July
TO-
, Rolls, Hon. Charles Stewart. at Bourne.
mouth, England, July r.
Kinet Nicholas. at Brussels, Belgium,
August g.
Vivaldi, Marquis, lieutenant of Italian
army. near Rome. August co.
Van Maasdyk, A. near Arnheim, Meth:
August q.
Poilette, Edmund c.. Chartres, France,
September Is.
Chavez. George, Demondosoia. italy,
September q.
Piotcnman, NJ, Muinausen, Germany,
september %.
Hans. Heinrich wallen. Germany. Sep
Lember Is.
Maziewch, Captain. ST. Petersburg. oc-
Lober 2.
Madiot Captain. Douai. France, octoL
Der %.
Mente. Lieutenant. Ladgeburg, Ger
many. October 25
blanchard, Fernando. Issy Les Molin
saux, France. October q.
Sagliette. Lieutenant Contosello, Italy
October q.
tombstone. Ralph. Denver. Colo. Novem-
Der II.
Cammarola. army engineer and a pri-
'ate. at -centosello, Italy. December g.
Grace. Cecil s.. lost In English channel.
December 20.
'Laffort. Alexander. Paris. France. De-
,ember g.
Paula. Marquis. Paris. France, Decem-'
Der g.
De Caumont. Lieutenant. st. Cyr.
France. December 30.
Moisant, John B., New Orleans. Deem
Der 81.
Hoxsey. Arch, Los Angeles. December 81.
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