The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1911-01-05
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Lose Lives or the
Same Day.
DIE IN SAME WAY
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lapses When Comparatively
Near to the Earth,

an English aviator, unnerved by the
death Saturday of HoXsey, refuses to
fly again. The aviation met here
ends tonight. Eugene Ely had an
other narrow escape from death,
when a guy wire broke and became
entangled with the propeller.
Hoxsey had won $4,000 in this
contest and this money will now go
to his mother.
New Orleans, La.-Despite the
wishes of relatives, hundreds today
attended the funeral of John B. Mois-
SAINT, the aviator killed Saturday.
Relatives left for New York and will
have the body inferred in Chicago
later. Floral offerings were SEN by
the Aero Clubs of America, England,
France and Belgium, and by many
cities.
Los Angeles, Cal.-Arch Hoxsey,
aviator extraordinary, was killed
here Saturday, only a few hours af-
ter John B.. Moissant, equally famous
in aviation, fell to his death at New
Orleans. Both fell out of the air
with their ma.'lines. Neither fell
from a great height and Moisant's re-
naming 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 a field a
few miles from New Orleans. Hox-
sey who went into the air early in
the afternoon in Los Angeles and lay
at 2:12 p. M, a crushed ~lifeless mass
in plain view of thousands who were
watching the aviation tournament.
Thus the last day of 1910 brought
the total number of deaths of those
who have sought to fly, to thirty
five, and capped the list with two
of the most illustrious of those await
ors who have been writing the his
tory of aviation in the sky of two.
continents.
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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 compe-
tency in the air and in which, only
within the W rex he had set a new
worlds altitude record of 11,474
foot OVID +hop - ehou, -, oo-l,
for earth had sailed majestically
more than 1000 feet above the high
est mountain in California, ran afoul
of some kind of shifty, , boiling
treacherous wind when a matter of
some 500 feet in the air, and a min
ute later a Mortified crow, aroused
from its shock, was rushing madly
to where a broken mass of humanity
lay beneath a torn bit of canvas and
some broken spars.
Both met death in almost the same
manner. Each machine was headed
for earth and suddenly seemed to
stop, hover in the air, then turn ov-
er on its nose" and dive headlong to
the earth and to destruction.
Hoxsey was returning from a
journey in the cuolds, and was with
in 500 feet of the earth ond cheers
were going up to meet the conquer
er of the higher air when his ma
chine seemed to stop still, shudder
and whirl over and over to the
ground. AS in the mornin's tragedy,
the rear elevator, rendered useless
when the momentum was gone, flip
ped around, helpless to aid the fated
machined. Hoxsey vainly endeavor-
ed to right his Graf by warping the
main planes and by use of the rud-
de Vain attempts these, for be-
for sufficient. momentum was gaoined
the structure crumpled upon the
earth, the heavy engine being torn
loose.
Only a few helpers saw Moissant
hurled to death, but Hoxsey's end
before the Mortified gave of
thousands. In a few moments the
announcer droned out the discour-
news"
"Arch Hoxsey had been killed.
There will be no more flying today"
Mrs. C. H. Hoxsey, of Pasadena,
Cal, missed by a mere accident see
ing her son meet death. She had
arranged to attend the tournament
and to take her first aeroplane ride
with her son. Some details OF her
household kept her at home, and the
work of the accident was taken to
her by Roy Knahenshue and Thom-
as Jackson of the Wright company.
Forecasts Of the fatal accident
we're made in both instances.
Death was the victor in a long con-
test it has fought with the daring
Chicagoan.
Hoxsey's harograph, still running
when the crows reached the head of