Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1911-01-04
MoIsANT AND HoxsEY DEAD.
Most Renowned Of the Avintors are
Killed on Aviation Fields.

ing the City Park aviation field at
9.25 o'clock this morning, full Of life;
vigor and hope, his eyes sparkling in
anticipation Of adding to his coun-
try's glory by bringing the Michelin
cup to America, John B. Moisant, one
of the worlds most daring and skill
full aviators, flew over New Orleans
to meet death twenty minutes later,
near Harahan, eleven miles above the
city.
Tonight at the hour when he was
to have been presented with a hand
some loving cup, bearing the legend,
John b. Moisant, the glory of Cen
tral America" contributed by the
Central American colony in New Or
leans, the plucky aviator lies in the
morgue, a martyr to the science OF
aviation.
Alfred j. Moisant. president OF the
international Aviators, bade his bro
ther cherry farewell just before he
ascended at the park. Accompanied
by press representatives and mechan-
les in an automobile, Mr.. Moisant
followed the flight Of his brother to
the place up the river where the cup
trial was to take place, only to be
met by the news that John b. Mois-
ant was dead.
HoNsey Meets Death ut Los Angeles.
Los Angeles, Dec. 31.-The winds,
whose treacheries Arch HoXsey SO
often defied and conquered, killed
the noted aviator to-day. AS if ieal-
GUS Of his intrepedity, they seized
him and his fragile flying machine,
flung them down out OF the sky and
crushed out his life
He fell dead in the field from
which he had risen but short time
before with a laughing promise to
thousands of cheering spectators to
pierce the zenith of the heavens. sur
pass his own phenomenal altitude
record and soar higher than any
other man dared go.
Cross currents, whirled off by
Vagrant storm that f1oated in from
the sea, caught his bplane and shot
him downward 563 feet to earth.
His body lay broken and twisted
almost out Of all semblance to a hu-
man form. All OF the spectators in
the grand stand witnessed the trag-
edy.
They sat H. awe-stricken silence
until the announcer gave out the
words through the megaphone:
'HoNsey has been killed."
The Two Great Avintors.
John B. Moisant and Arch Hoxsey,
aviators extraordinary, were killed
to-day. Both fell opt Of the treach-
erous air currents with their ma
chines-neither from vast height
and Moisants remaining minutes OF
LIE were SO few as to count as
naught. Hoxsey was killed Instantly,
Moisant met his death at 9.55 a. m.
attempting to alisht in field a few
miles from New Orleans, La. Hox-
sey, who went into the air early in
the afternoon at Los Angeles, lay at
2.12 p. m. a crushed, lifeless mass in
view of the thousands who were
watching the aviation tournament.
Thus the last day Of 1910, in
bringing the total number of deaths
OF aViators to thirty, capped the list
with two of the most illustrious of
those airmen who have been writing
the history Of aviation in the skies
OF the two continents
Moisamt's Neck i;iuitcn.
Moisant, Chicagoan by birth,
after an adventurous life in Central
America became interested in avia-
ton in France less than a year ago.
After soaring into public recognition
by his plucky flight from Paris across
the English Channel to London, with
a passenger, MOisant's fearlessness
and resourrefulness were exhibited
frequently Finding himself without
a machine he purchased one from q
friend for $4,000, and within ten
minutes started on his winning flight
from Belmont Park, N. Y, around
the Statue of Liberty, winning a prize
of $4,000.
To-day a sudden puff of wind
caught him within 500 feet of the
earth, turned his machine over. and
broken neck terminated his career.
Hoxsey's BooS' Crushed to Pieces.
Arch Hoxsey. after year of uni
form success with the Wright aero
planes, had gained a name for daring