The Washington herald., 1919-08-15
WAS MAKING FLIGHT
IN RECRUITING DRIVE
Victims, Mangled by Pro-
peller Blades, Hurled
Down l5-foot Embank-
ment When Struck by
Machine in Landing.
SPECIAL TO THE HERALn

Baltimore, Aug. I4-Three chI
dren were killed; eight other per
sons were seriously injured, zns
scores Of other spectators received
less serious injuries this Afternoon
when sc 3Sr2I. an army airplanI
piloted by Lieut.. David R. StiD
son. crashed into an iron fence 4
Patterson Park baseball field sns
crashed through a crowd Of sev
eral thousand persons. Lieut
Stinson made q most heroic bur
futile effort to avoid the seS
dent
Three In List of Dead.
The dead are.
Elsie Klima. years oId. ~
North Madeira street.
william Krosrt. years I'D. gsg
North Madeira street
Lawrence Michael s years Old, q
South Mad daIrs street
Those injured:
Catherine Loschinsky II year
old. so Madeira street right hsns
crushed: Walter Kl1ms. years old
s2l North Madeira street. knee,
crushed: Gustav Strickroth. yesr,
old, 2225 Orleans street injured
about the head: Miss Emma 4
DoIph. s. years old ITO Rochester
place. lac-rstious OF the head. Jo-
scph Ritto years old $50 NorrN
Montford avenue. abrsslons ot tn,
knee: Emily Anderson. Il years ors
CcoIored). South Dallas street
laceratlons of tho face and body
Sigmund Joritsl wears I'D. :
North Montford avenue.
Several thousand persons. nostIy
children. had gathered % watch th'
landing. which was'rrom d flight ~
connection with recruiting Tor N,
AVIATION service. After cIrcIIrC arounc
the post several times. shortly ar~.
1t reached the landing field. the aero
plane which had as ~ 0assonCers
Lieut. Stinson. the pilot. and slrS
Class Sergt. y J FulwIIer. anded ~
tho centrr of the stadium
suu>on'S Heroic Effort.
o.fS.a. vt tho threc-roo' fer.e on
Crcliu- the roId stood NOR, rIa sos
spectator. most Of them children
hr,arh'osSlv watching the machine of
SrusOn and those OF two other pllols
who had made the rrin with n.r. Srtu-
sou Jaw The. crowd rn from .r r-r -...
oNo-'"d aU h- efforts ro nrr- rs
n..u' 90 dead stop .atur" . rosch,-
the fence.
Eight caIurlus deep the .hId-eu
stood ~'m-uu lD last He-ot. effort
10 avoid Am accident. rO-strrted the
motor and attorruted 20 ascend a sec
ond time 10 Mas too late Had The
machine risen 20 JIDC. Stnson woUi7
have been caught Iu q network NJ
telegraph wire~ on E1Iwood avenue
and would Vruna' Iy have h'on killed
But h1s Deadfue-e 10 -aCrIdtr his Nfs
was OF no avail. ror tho giant Cur'tss
plane crashed 'hrug-h Tho ren.e suo
into the crowd
Hurled Down EmbRnLmcnt.
Scores of -nrldreu We're hurled dowr
a fftecu-.oot onhHnkmenj by tho
r7cht wing of the aernpIsne. Others
were moved down by the lerJ WING
Of tho machine At least % dozcr
wcrr ,auCht 10y the speedily revolving
BLADES Of the nrouelIer and vrrc badly
injured
The three ,HiIdren killed were two
hUNS. estyG about years old and
girl about 12 years Old. They were
killed outright 10y the blade Of tho
propeller.
a second accident occurred on trs
scene Of the tragedy when AN army
truck was sent to Patterson Park C
haul away the damssed airplanC IN
army touring car ACCOMPANYING tho
truck and it is believed that aTfeI
reaching its destination the gears were
left i'm place and some one turned On
III, power. The car crashed into the
truck, breaking the leg Of Capt Glen
denim. Motor Transport Corps. ana IN
jurTng a park policeman and a boy.