Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-10-17
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THE AIR Many
DURING 1918

Since the first of the year the fol
| lowing fatalities in aviation have
been reported in the Star Bulletin:
January Charles Newport, de.
signer of the fastest aeroplane, and
! his mechanician, killed at Etamps,
France. " - 4 ~
| March 2S-Two Japanese military
ayiators killed. Isl.
April 8-Lieut Chandler killed at
San Diego, Lieut. Brereton being In
ijured, aeroplane.
May 2--Ayiator Jansen decapitat-
ed trying to start his hydropiane at
Oakland, Cal So ... -. ><-s-
May 3-Takaishi, aviator, killed at
Kioto, Japan, fan from machine.
May 5--Charles Carlson, Milwau-
kee aviator, killed near Silver Lake,
machine falling when engine stopped.
May 9-Lieut. J. ID. Park, o. s. A.,
killed az Los Angeles, aeropIane strik-
ing tree. Ninth army victim.
May 27-Lieut. Desmond Arthur,
aviation corps British army, killed at
Montrose, aeroplane turning turtle
at great height
June Joseph Wilson, aeronaut of
many years experience, scraped on
trapeze bar by telegraph wires, fell
80 feet, killed almost instantly, at
Newman, Cal.
June 1-James Colovan, pupil in
aviation, killed at Cicero aerodrome,
Chicago, wire of his Curtiss biplane
having caught in a tree.
/ June aviator Bernard and pas
senger killed at Buc, France, bipiane
turning turtle in midair.
June 12-Andrew Drew, pupil of
OrFille Wright, killed at Lima, Ohio,
by fail 200 feet wnen his biplane took
fire. ,.s,
June IL German aviator killed at
Mytho. Indo-C China, by fall of machine
1000 feet.
june lS--Aviator Krastel and his
mechanician killed at Johannesthal
aviation course, machine turning.
at so feet height,
June 90 Ensign William D. Bill
ingsley killed, Lieut. John H. Towers
seriously injured, at Annapolis naval
academy, biplane collapsing.
July 8-Lieut. Loren Call army ay-I
iatoT, killed in biplane accident at
Houston, Texas. Tenth army victim.
July I'M Berth and son killed
at Paris. Aviator Dieteriekho killed
at Muhlansen, Germany, in making a
landing.
July 15-Lieut. Stoll of German av-
iation corps, died at Jueterborg as re-
suit Of machine striking tree in
landing!
July 17-Major w. Hewitson, MEM
Der of Royal Artillery Corps and
Military Flying Corps, England,
killed at army aerodrome by falling
of monoplane.
August lieutenant Schmidt
killed by aeroplane collapsing at
Halberstadt, Germany.
August 25-s1iet1t. Sansevefe and
Sapper La Forge killed at Villacou-
blay, France, saeroplane.
Sept. First Lieutenant Moss L.
Love, r11th Cavalry, u. s.. A., student
at army aviation school, San Diego,
Cal. killed while operating army
aeroplane over North Island. Eley-
enth army victim.
/ Sept. 1.-TWO lieutenants Of Ger
man ayiation corps killed at Breig,
Prussia, by plane collapsing in diff
cult maneuver.
Sept. Herr Ringer, German avia-
tor, killed at Berlin.
Sept. Flour persons killed at
Bueehe nburen, Germany, by military
aeropiane plunging into a crowd
) Sept. 12-Ayiator Hans Lorenz
killed at Muenser, Germany, said tol
be 325th fatality since heavier than
air machines came into use.
Sept. 16--P. G.. Davis died at Chica-
go from tetanus, result of accident
in exhibition fight
, Oct. Ruth Hildreth killed and
her sister Helen fatally injured
struck in crowd by Lincoln Beachey's
aeroplane at Hammondsport, N
Oct. 14-Ayiator Albert Jewell van
ished while high in air at New York,
supposed to have been blown to sea.
ter 8 o'clock yesterday morning,
death being due to an oVerindulgence