The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1911-01-06
MO|ShNT AND
HOXSEY KILLED
FALL FROM AEROPLANES AT
NEW ORLEANS AND Los
ANGELES.
BODIES ARE CRUSHED TOA PULP
Total Deaths From Aviation Now
Thirty-five, With Five In Closing
Week of the
Year.

Chicago. Ian. 3.-John b. Moisant
and Arch HoAsey, aviators e~Xtraordin-
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 lo count as naught. HoXsey
was kliled instantly.
Moisant met his death al $50 a. ~.
attempting to aliaht in a field a few
miles from New Orleans. HOXsey,
who went into the air early in the
afternoon at Los Angeles, lay, at 2:l2
p. M. a crushed, l~ifoless mass in plain
view of the thousands who were
watching the aviation tournament.
Moisant, a ~Chicagoan by birth, af-
ter an adventurous life in Central
America, became interested in avia-
ton in France less than a year ago
He scared into public recognition by
his p}ucky fight from Paris across
the English channel 10 London, with
a passenger, and later. finding himself
without a machine, by buying one from
a friend and within ten minutes start
ing on his winning fight from Belmont
Park. New York, around the Statue Of
Liberty, for a prize OF $4,000.
Aoxsey Falls SEQ Feet.
Arch HoXsey, after a year Of uni
form success with the Wright aero
plaES 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 1t.474 feet. and Their to
show his contempt for the earth, had
sailed majestically over Mt. Wilson,
rem afoul of the same kind of shifty,
boiling, t~reacherous wind when q mat
ter Of some 800 feet in the air. and a
minute later 4 Mortified crowd. aroused
from its 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 30, capped
the list with two of the most i~llustri-
Jus of those ayiators who have been
writing the history of aviation in the
SKY of two continents.
TIE Death List.
Complete death list for the year fol
lows:
De Lagrange. Leon. at Bordeaux,
France, Ja,. 4.
lie Blon, Hubert. AT San Sebastian.
Spain. April ,.
Michclir, Harvettc. at Lyons.
France, May Is.
De Zosely. Aindan, al Buda Pest.
Hungary, juno :.
Robl. ThadG8us at Stettin. Ger
many. June Is.
Wachter. Charles, at Rheims.
France. July 3.
Rolls. Hon. Charles Stewart. at
Bournemouth. England, July 10.
Kinet. Daniel, at Client, Belgium.
July 10.
kinet, Nichols, at Brussels. Bel
GUM, Aug. 3.
Nivaldi, Marquist. Lieut., Of Italian
army. ear Rome, Aug. 90.
Van Maasdvk. A.. near Arnheim.
Netherlands. Aug. p.
Poillot, Edmond. Charities, France.
Sept. -.
Chavez, George S. at DomonGossola.
Italy. Sept. 81.
Piochman, at Mulhausen. Germany,
Sept. IS.
Hans. Heinrich, at Wallen. Germany,
Sept. IS.
Maziewich, Captain, at St. Peters
burg. Russia. Oct. Z,
Madiot, Captain, at Douai, France,
Oct. %.
Mente, Lieut.. at Madgeburg. Ger
many, Oct. -.
Blanchard, Fernando. at lssy les
Molineaux. France, Oct. 81.
Sagliette, Lieut., at Centeselia, Italy,
Oct. 81.
tombstone, Ralph, at Denver, Cole.
Nov. II.
Grace. Cecil. S, lost in English
Channel. Dec. %.
Senior Piccolo Sac Paulo, Brazil.
Dec. 26.
La1ort, Alexander, 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.
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