El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-05-14
THREE KILLED IN
MAKING FLIGHTS
Another Probably Fatally
Injured-One Victim a
Passenger.

St Louis, No. May 14.-Ray Wheel
er, amateur aviator, is dead and Pete
Chaser, a companion, probably is IA
tally injured as the result OF a plunge
into a telegraph pole at Kinloch Park
last night. The accident ocucrred
when the aeroplane was caught in a
Whtrlwind 100 feet above the earth
The force Of the vortex dashed the
machine among the poles and wires be-
fore Chaser. who was guiding, had
time to get the machine above the
danger
Wheeler and CHASER were thrown 80
feet from the machine. The gasoline
tank exploded and set fire 10 the
wreck. Wheelers skull was crushed
his right leg broken in three places and
his right arm fractured He died on
the way 10 hospital
Avlators who witnessed the accident
said il was due entirely to the wind
and could not have been avoided.
American Aviator Killed In London
London England, Nay 14.-Fictor
Louis Mason, an American Identified
with extensive mining interests and at
one time private secretary TO general
r. A Alger. American secretary Of
war, was killed yesterday while max
ing flight at BroOklauds with the
English aviator E Y. Fisher Fisher
also was killed by being pitched out
Of the machine when at a height OF
$50 feet
Fisher was about to give an exhi-
bition and picked M. Mason as a pas
senger from among the spectators
They circled the track once when eve
witnesses say the machine, which was
monoplane, made an abrupt turn. 1t
Wavered a moment and then fell
straight TO earth
The sudden stoppage in the air
threw Fisher headlong from his seat
Mason was pinned beneath the wreck
age which caught fire and he was bad
~ burned before being eXtricated- Ply
siCians say both men died almost i'm
mediately-
Thomas Sopwith also was flying with
q passenger and witnessed the accident
He few in the direction OF the wrecked
machine and alighted close beside II.
The two men tried their utmost TO
beat down the flames,
Victor Louis Mason resided at Pas
siac. n J. He was born in Washing
tonin 1870 His wife was Miss Daisy
Simmons Of Washington He served as
private secretary TO general Alger and
secretary Root in 189T-99- He was al
ternate delegate TO the Republican ma
tiOnal convention at Washington II.
1898 and was associated with general
Alger in Detroit from 1898 to 1902. de
was assistant secretary Of the Repub-
lican national committee in charge Of
the eastern division in the campaign
OF 1903
Mr.. Mason was identified with min
ing enterprises and went 10 Europe last
January on business. A widow and
three children survive him
Iowa Accident May Result Fatally
Perry, Ia, Nay 14-Aviator Ralph
ldcAfillen was seriously injured during
an exhibition flight here last night
when more than 100 feet in the air.
The engine OF his biplane went dead
and Mc8ilen attempted to glide 70
earth but was unable to control the
machine and il turned almost complete
~ over in the descent and fell into
creek He suffered two broken legs,
a broken shoulder bone, and nu-
merous other injuries but probably viii
recover.
Harry Williams, who accompanied
hin was badiy bruised but not serious
" hurt The biplane was wrecked