Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-10-09
THREE FL|ERS
KILLED.; MANY
HURT IN FALLS
ranS-cOntinental Race is Start
ed from MineOla and San
Francisco.
ASSISTANT SECRETARY
OF WAR IN CRASH
Benedict CrOwell, However, Escapes
Injury-Two Killed at Salt Lake
City-Two Hurt at
Binghampton.

Mineola, N. Y, Oct. 8.-The trans
continental aerial derby in which At
aviators started westward from Min
cola today simultaneously with 16 9TH
ers who started from San Francisco
eastward tonight had brought death
to several filters.
At late hour tonight reports of
deaths IN various parts OF the coun-
try among eastward and westward
bound filters aggregated three. One
had been MORALLY hurt and several
others injured in a number of mis-
haps.
At Salt Lake City, Maj. D. H.
killed at Buena Vista Field, near
Salt Lake, when he attempted to
land. Sergeants First Class Virgil
to the hospital.
At Binghampton, N. Y, flying
west, Colonel Gerald Brandt was
probably mortally hurt and his pas
senger, Sergt. w. H. hewitt, serious
ly injured when their plane crashed
to the ground for an unknown reason,
one mile north of Deposit at l o'clock
Colonel Brandt's arms and legs were
broken and he suffered internal in
juries: Sergeant hewitt apparently
suffered conclusion of the brain. The
airplane was wrecked. hewitt later
died.
At shutdown tonight Lieutenant
Belvin w. Maynard, Baptist minis
ter and winner of the recent trip con-
test between New York and Toronto,
had flown $40 miles. from Mineola
and landed at Chicago, while several
other west bound contestants were
resting overnight at Binghaml5on,
Rochester, Buffalo, Bryan and Cleve-
land control stations along the way.
Eight accidents in which three
persons were killed and one injured
had been reported tonight to the head
quarters of the American Flyinp club
here, which is cooperating with the
army air service in conducting the
contest.
Five forced landings were reported.
Lieutenant Rose Kirkpatrick came
down at Vernon, N. Y, when his
compass ceased to function. He re-
ceived permission to return to Min
cola and start again tomorrow
Lieut.. r. L. Vaughan, who received
permission to fly today from Major
General Charles T. Menoher, COM
manding the army air service, after
he had been physically disqualified
yesterday by local officials, landed
at Glendale. N. Y. with motor trou-
BILE. Lieut.. Willis r. Taylor was COM
PEELED to land at Nicholson, Pa.
Foreigners Out.
The only foreign entrants in the
race, Air Commodore l.. E. O. Charl-
ton. air attache of the British embas-
sy in Washington and CAPTAIN de La
vergen air attache of the French
embassy, were eliminated before they
had an opportunity to cross the state
boundary
Commodore Charlton, with Flight
Lieutenant p. E. Trail, as the alter
nate pilot of his Bristol fighting plane
wrecked his machine in making a
forced landing at Ovid, N Y.
Captain De Lavergne, who was fly
! ing rs passenger in a De Haviland,
and Lieut.. D. B. Gish, his pilot, were
compelled to withdraw from the
race when their plane burst into
flames and was forced to land at
Canadice. N. Y.
The only accident on the local
field occurred about noon when
plane plotted by Capt. M. Cleary Of
Evertt. Wash, and carrying Benedict
Crowell, first assistant secretary Of
war as a passenger. crashed to the
ground from height of 100 feet and
overturned. The accident happened
while the machine was trying to take
off and less than a minuate after it
had left the ground. Neither Captain
Cleary nor Mr.. Crowell was hurt, but
the right wing Of the machine was
smashed and the plane put out OF
commission.
On the outcome of the race the
basis of important war department
experiments will BE- formed. The
prime object of the event was to test
the powers of different makes and
sorts of conditions. Planes starting
from the west hit the mountain re-
gion early. Those which left the east
will hit the Rocky Mountain region
tomorrow. Flying ceased at sunset
and the planes were put away for
the night in various parts of the coun-
try. Actual flying time only is to be
counted and stay of AZ hours in
one place, EXCEPT because of unusual
weather conditions. disqualifies a
flier. Time out will not be taken for
forced landings
| Most of the planes are using the
new Liberty motors. A number OF
makes are participating among them
being three German Fokkers.
Two at Reno.
Reno, Oct, Styling low and close
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