The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1912-07-04
MEETS DEATH
IN MID-AlR

fish channel in an aeroplane. was in.
stantly killed with her passenger. w.
A. Willard, manager of the Boston
aviation meet at Atlantic tonight when |
her Bleriot monoplane fell into Dor.
chester bay from height of 1000
feet.
The accident happened when Miss
Quimby and Willard were returning
from trip over Boston harbor to
Boston light, a distance of twenty
miles in all. The flight was made in
twenty minutes. The Bleriot, one of
the latest models of military mono
planes, circled the aviation fields and
scared out over the Savin Hin Yacht
club, Just outside the aviation grounds.
Turning back into the eight.mile
gusty wind, Miss Quincy started to
volplane. The angle was too sharp
and one of the guests caught the tail
Of the monoplane, throwing the ma.
chine up perpendicular.
For an instant it poised there.
Then, sharply outlined against the
setting sun, Willard was thrown clear
OF the chassis, followed almost imme-
diately by Miss Quimby. Hurting ov.
er and over, the two figures shot
downward, striking the water twenty
feet from shore. They splashed out
of sight a second before the mono.
plane plunged down fifteen feet
away. It was low tide and the water
was only five feet deep.
Men from the yacht club in motor
boats were on the spot quickly, and
leaping overheard, dragged the bodies
out of the mud into which they had
sunk deeply. Death probably was in
Simultaneous.
Both bodies were badly crushed.
! Several of Miss Quimby's bones we're
broken and her body bore many bruis-
es. Willard who weighed 100 pounds,
hit the water face first and over one
eye there was cash from which the
blood was flowing. He, too, sustained
several fractures and bruises. 'rhe
clothing of both flyers was torn and
the bodies were so covered with mud
that It was several minutes before
the doctors and nurses could determ-
inc the full extent of the inju.ies,a
When the victims were brought
ashore in motorboats the bodies were
laid On the ground on the edge of the
aviation field. The crowd which had
been witnessing the flights rushed
over, but the troop Of state cavalry
held the people back while Dr.. George
Sheahan, the field surgeon, with his
staff and nurses, made hasty eXamina
tons. In a few moments ambulances
arrived and the victims were taken &c
the Quincy hospital
Flying high over head at the time
of the fall was Miss Blanche Stuart
Scott, another aviatrice, taking part
in the meet which had entered upor
H. second day.
From her high altitude Miss Scot
had watched Miss Quimby's splendid
flight and was nearby when the gus
upset the monoplane. In the excite
ment of the moment no one noticed
the lone aviatrice, but when Miss
Quimby's body was brought ashore al
eyes were directed aloft and Mis-:
Scott was seen making sweeping cir
Giles over the field at height of about
soc feet.
Twice she started to descend, bu
each time she was seen to falter. II
another moment, summoning all hei
nerve, she turned the hose of her ma
chine downward and landed safely, col
lapsing in her seat and before anyone
could reach her.
A. Leo Stevens of New York, man
ager for Miss Quimby, and Miss Quinn
by's friend, Mrs, Helen Vanderbilt
who witnessed the accident, were pros
trated.
Before going up on their last flight
Miss Quimby and Mr.. Willard were
talking and laughing with friends
willard making jokes about his weigh
and Miss Quimby talking CONFIDENT!
aboua her plans to make an altitude
record in the future that would stant
as a woman's high mark.
Tn crossing the English channel OF