Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1912-07-04
| WOMAN AND MAN
fall TO: death.
Mics HARRIET oUlMBY AND w. y.
=. WILLARD ARE INSTANT
LY KILLED.
WIND TIPS MoNoPLANE.
sodies Are Plunged Into Dorchester
Bay.-PiIot Only Woman to Cross
the English Chan
mel.
WIND TIPS MONOPLANE

Boston, July miss Harriet Quinn
by of New York, the first woman to
win an aviator's license in America
and the first woman to cross the Eng
1ish channel in an aeroplane. was in
stantly killed with her passenger, w.
A. P. Willard, manager of the Boston
aviation meet, at Atlantic, when her
Eleriot monoplane fell into Dorchester
Bay from height Of l 1000 feet.
The accident happened when Miss
Cuimby and Willard were returning
from a trip over Boston harbor to
Boston light, a distance of 20 miles in
all The flight was made in 20 min
utes. The Bleriot, one of the latest
models of military monoplanes, circled
the aviation field and scared out over
tie Savin hill yacht club, just outside
the aviation grounds.
Heading back into the eight mile
gustv wind, Miss Quimby started to
volplane. The angle was too sharp
and enc Of the gusts caught the tail
of the monoplane throwing the ma
chine up perpendicular
For an instant it poised there. Then,
sharply outlined against the setting
SIN, Willard was thrown clear of the
chassis followed almost Immediately
Nv Miss Quimby. Hurting over and
over the two figures shot downward.
striking the water twenty feet from
shore.
They splashed out of sight second
before the monoplane plunged down
Il feet away.
Ie was low tide an dthe water was
oily five feet deep. Men from the
yacht club in motor boats were on the
set quickly and leaping overheard
dragged the bodies out of the mud in
to which they had sunk deeply. Death
probably was instantaneous Both bod
les We're badly crushed. Several of
Miss Quimby's bones were broken and
they were many large bruises. Will
lard, who weighed 100 pounds, hit the
water face first and over one eye there
was cash from which the blood vas
| flowing He too sustained seveial
| fractures and bruises. The clothing Of
both was torn and the bodies were so
covered with mud that it was several
minutes before the doctors and nurses
could determine the full extent of the
| injuries.
| When the victims were brought
ashore in motor boats the bodies were
laid on the ground on the edge of
the aviation field. The crowd which
had been witnessing the flights, rush
ed over, but a troop of state cavalry
held the people back while Dr. George
Sheahan, the field surgeon with his
staff and nurse made hasty examina-
tons.
In a few minutes ambulances ar
rived and the victims were taken to
the Quincy hospital
Flying high overhead at the time of
the fall was. Miss Blanche Stuart Scott,
another aviator taking part in the
meet, which had entered upon it's sec
| ond day.
From her high altitude Miss Scott
had watched Miss Cuimby's splendid
! fight and was nearby when the gust
upset the monoplane. In the excite
ment of the moment no one noticed
the. lone aviator, but when Miss Quinn
by's body was brought ashore all eyes
We're directed aloft and Miss Scott was
seen sweeping circles over the field at
1 a height of about 500 feet Twice she
i was seen to falter. In another mo-
nent summoning all her nerve, she
turned the nose of her machine down
4 ward and landed safely, collapsing in
| her seat before anyone could reach
1 her.