Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1911-06-23
KILLED IN AIR RACE
THREE AviAToRS DEAD, FIVE
INJURED IN WORLD THRILL
ING EVENT.
200 SPECTATORS ARE HURT
Million People Watch Tragic Start OF
Flight From Vincennes, France, 20
London and Return for Prizes
TotaIing $4,000.

Paris-The beginning at Vincennes
ever witnessed was tragically marked
by the death of three aviators and the
injury to five others, one probably
fatally. OvAr 200 spectators were
also more OF less injured.
Sixty airrlen had been entered IN
this contest, of whom fifty took wing,
in spite Of the catastrophes with which
this, the greatest of European cross
country flights, was inaugurated.
Ten Of the competitors were obliged
to abandon the contest for one rea-
son Or another before they few be-
yor7 the confines of the park
The dead are:
Captain Princeteau, one of the most
distinguished French military ava
tors. The motor Of his monoplane.
which had been acting balky before
the start, exploded In midair within q
few minutes after his craft left the
ground The benzine poured over the
aviator, burning him to death.
M. LIE Martin, Bleriots favorite and
most skillful pilot. 1t was known that
| the steering gear of his craft was not
| in order when he started. Getting be-
yond control almost as soon as ne
rose, the monoplane collided with a
great oak tree The motor fell on the
aviator's head, crushing his skull.
M Lendron, one of the most popular
airmen of France. He had flown ~
miles when the fuel of tho reservoir
of his monoplane exploded. The ma
chine was entirely consumed and the
aviator was burned to death.
| The injured are:
M. Gaubert, who entered the race
under the name of Dalgar He had
been an officer in the French army.
The aviator was found senseless I'M
der his machine in wheat field near
| Villars-Coterets. His injury will
probably be fatal.
M. Billie, whose monoplane crashed
to the ground mile from the start
and was entirely wrecked. The ava
i tor was painfully injured.
M. Morrison fell near Gagny; NJ. Nor
in near Chevron, and M. Jordan near
Charleville. Their craft were wrecked
and the aviators were badly shaken
up. but their injuries are not serious.
The scene of the start was the same
park in Vincennes where the late
French minister of war met death IN
I the Paris-Madrid fight start four
weeks ago. Here, also, Laffort and
Pola were killed in the wreck of their
Antoinette monoplane last December.
in spite of these warning tragedies
the mob of spectators, numbering l.
600 900 persons, surged on the Held be-
fore the start. 1t was while driving
back the throng that the spectators
| were injured more or less.
The European race is for purse
totaling $4,000. The course leads
over France, Belgium, Holland and
England with two crossings of the
English channel The end, as the be-
ginning, is at Vincennes The total
distance is about $50 miles. On &C
count of the favorable topography of
the country it was predicted that this
would be the most successful as well
as the least dangerous of all cross
country European races.
Nearly all the famous aviators- OF
Europe were entered and made their
starts. For America especial interest
centers in little Roland Garros, the
hero of the Paris-Rome flight, who
started in spite of Nhe contrary ac-
lions of his monoplane.