The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1912-1984, 1916-06-13
Lieut.. Caswen SauAey Fell
To His Death In Aero
plane at Pensacola
TRYING FOR new RECORD
FOR CONTINUED FLIGHT WHEN
PART OF MACHINE PROVED
DEFECTIVE-BUR
HERE MONDAY.

Eleven years ago a Stanford moth
er gave her youngest son to the ser
vice of his country.
Friday, June 9, he gave it his life.
And yesterday the bruised and
broken remains of what less than a
week before had been as stalwart,
as noble, and as brave Kentuckian
as ever the old state has sent forth
in all her history, were brought back
to his childhood's home here in STAN
ford; returned by his country to the
mother who had given him, and mid
broken hearts and with tender hands
were laid to final rest on the green
hillside of Buffalo Springs cemetery,
beside his illustrious sire and others
of his blood.
Shattered though the mortal frame
had been, of what was so splendid
a young man, no accident of fate,
as caused his sudden taking, can
ever tarnish the brilliant record he
has made during the all too brief
period of service to his country. The
grief of his mother-and whose can
be greater?-and the sorrow of his
wife and other loved ones, seems ov-
erwhelming in this hour of great af-
Fiction, and such that God in His
infinite mercy only can assuage.
But there are riffs in every lower
ing cloud, and through the gloom
and through the shadows of their
sorrow, will ever CLEAN the ray of
God's sunlight, proclaiming the sa-
cred honor of having borne such a
son, having loved such husband, or
having known such a friend, and
illuminating, so that all the
world may see, his deathless deeds
of heroism, of courage, of self-sac-
rifce, of honor and devotion to the
cause of the flag he loved and for
which he lived and died.
Stanford, Lincoln county, Ken
lucky, aye, the nation, are losers in
the death of Lieutenant Richard Cas-
well Saufiey which occurred last Fri
day afternoon about 1 o'clock, when
the aeroplane in which he was flying,
fell to the earth, near Pensaloca,
Fla. The news received here late that
afternoon was received with express
sions of deepest sorrow all over the
city and county, and all over the
state. His friends and loved ones
here were inexpressibly shocked,
while the blow to his aged mother,
who was visiting her daughter, Mrs.
S. M. Logan, at Midway, was almost
unbearable He was her youngest
son; the baby of her heart and home;
and today her gray hairs are bowed
down in anguish before the affection
which has been visited upon her. A
world of loved ones are praying that
her Heavenly Father will grant her
strength to bear this, the latest of a
series of bereavements which have
been visited upon her and hers with
in a period of a few short years.
No Way to Learn the Cause.
The exact cause of the fearful ac-
.cident which caused the death of
Lieut.. Saufiey will probably never be
known. 1t has been the history of
aviation, of flying in heavier-thsn-
air machines that, except in acct
dents where the pilot is no, .immedi-
ately killed, or where a full and COM
plete observation can be made from
watchers below, it is impossible to
ascertain what was the defect in the
machine that caused it to fall. The
Associated Press dispatches from
Pensacola, Florida, where is located
: the United States Aviation Station,
of which Lieut.. Saufley was Instruc-
tor and Chief Aviator, told the fol-
lowing story OF his death:
Pensacola, Fla, June 10.-De-
.claring when he left the hanger at
the Pensacola aeronautic station
at O'Clock Friday morning that
he was going to Guido his previous
record of eight hours of continu-
Gus flight in a Curtis hydroplane,
Lieut. Richard Caswell Saufey
kept soaring in continuous flight
until shortly after / o'clock Fri
day afternoon when his machine,
while brother aviators were look
ing at his daring and record