The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1912-07-02
IN DORCHESTER BAY
Took Up the Manager of
the Flying Meet as
Passenger.
CIRCLED BOSTON LIGHT
Were on Last Lap of Flight and
Miss Scott Was in the
Air Above Them.

RosTCS. July 1.-Miss Harriet Quimby
# New York. the first woman to operate
a heavier than air machine across the
English Channel and first to win a pilots
license under the rules Of the Aero Club
os America. and william A. p. Willard
Of this city. manager Of the third meet
on the Harvard Field and father Of Charles
foster Willard. the Curtiss fier. were
hurled a thousand feet into Dorchester
Bay from Miss Quimby's Blerot and in.
stantly killed at 9 o'clock tonight.
At once an admiring. applauding gath
ering Of more than 5000 people became
a hysterical mass. Women shrieked and
men jumped from their seats in frenzy.
The crowds made rush to the western
edge OF the field. where the bodies had
been seen to catapault into the bay about
twenty feet from the shore. They were
checked by troop Of cavalry which had
been assisting in the policing of the field
The field surgeons were rushed toward
the scene in automobiles. for at first it
was thought that there might be oppor.
,unity to do something for the unfortu-
nate pair They arrived to find their SER
vices useless. for on reaching the edge
of the field there was no trace OF the
bodies.
From the Savin Hill Yacht Club feet
of motor boats pushed out and raced to
the scene. They came to the spot where
the bodies had seemed to vanish and men
leaped overheard and dived into the four
feet OF water to search. A second later
the two bodies hoated to the surface and
were horn 10 the shore and laid out on
squantum Head. where DR.. George T.
Sheahan, the field surgeon. and his three
assistants began an immediate exami-
nation.
Both were dead and in the opinion OF
the doctors they were dead before they
struck the water. Miss Quimby's face
bore no cuts, but blood flowed from a
deep cash over Willard's eye. Ambu-
lances that arrived within a few minutes
we're pressed into service to carry the
bodies to the morgue in Quincy where
the medical examiner for the district
will perform his post st-mortem examina-
ton tomorrow.
There is probably no person who will
ever be able to tell what caused the acci-
dent, but some are inclined to the belief
that the machine suddenly ran into a
gust OF wind that caused the nose TO point
downward too rapidly and that suction
pulled Willard out of his passenger q
seat to the rear Of the operator and threw
him hesdforemost down through space.
The action OF his weight forced Miss
Quimby to follow.
Others say that indications are that the
tail control broke. for 1t suddenly pointed
upward into the air. balanced almost
perpendicular for q moment or two and
then Willard shot out. The latter theory
- advanced by q number OF aviators
though none OF them operates mono.
plane. while Earl l.. Ovington. himself
u BlAriot operator. advanced the former
iheory.
At the time Of the accident Miss Quimby
was getting all she could out Of her power
iIl 20 horsepower motor in an effort to
break the record made by Claude Ora
hame-White for a flight to Boston light
and return with a passenger. She had
been to the light. returned to the Held
and circled it once. and was on her last
lap Of the course when the tragedy oc-
Cured
Gracefully the trim looking plane,
tainted all white. sped about the field al
rate estimated at between sixty and sew
enty miles an hour. Even at the height
oi 1000 feet the purr OF the motor told
her mechanicans and A. Leo Stevens
her manager, that all was well with the
engine There was strong thirty mile
wind that she had TO head into. but She
rad gone through it successfully onct
before, and there were few II any who
entertained fear. inasmuch as she wa'
Practically through the flight.
High above her. possibly thousant
feet or more in the air. Miss Blanche
Stuart Scott was gracefully circling th'
tcld in her Martin biplane and gazini
lul"n,ly down at the pnir in the mono
rane In the West a beautiful COLDER
-ln was setting and the wings OF tn
~nite painted racer glittered prettil,
gains, the sky. The twenty mile
'r the light had been done in about twent,
minutes and it was thought that tn
'cord was 10 be shattered.
The mortified throng saw the woman
-jddcnly pulled out OF her seat and mt
ne air, following the same course take'
hy Willard Both shot downward
'"rniic speed, turning somersaults in tn
ar and they struck the water abou
twenty feet apart and about twenty fee
from the shore.
Do-A through space went the machin
" -ut guiding hand, with the motor
Ring and it struck the water 500 fee
from where the bodies Of the two passen
RaIs We're found.
Wien the bodies were brought to shor