New-York tribune., 1921-06-01
Missile, Like Those To Be
Used i'm Trials Against
Ships, Slips, ESplodes
at Aberdeen Army Field
Pilot and Bomber
Alive i'm Wreckage
Propeller Blows Safety
Device Loose and Tail
Of Craft Sets OF TINT
Spcelal pispotoh to rhe rribuna

hoI'hiJEL4N, ND, way Gl.-f1ve
persons were killed, three 80 seriously
injured that they may die and eight
less seriously injured when a fifty
pound bomb, which was about to be
used in test, accidentally exploded on
the Aberdeen Proving Grounds at
1o:30 this morning.
The tests were being made In
preparation for the experiments which
will be made off the Capes when the
effectiveness in bombing .battleships
and other navy craft will be tried out.
List of the Dead
The dead are:
.. Private Allen W. Sherman, 14th Air
Hazleton, Pa, hit in head by frag-
ments Of the bomb and died imme-
diately. He had been in service only
five months.
Private Elmer H. Grimmel, 18th Air
Squadron, eighteen years old, of Belair.
Nd, mutilated, and died before he
could be taken to the hospital.
Robert NJ Herr, civilian employee,
y e.,
at $3.50 p. m. in Aberdeen Proving
Ground Hospital He was about to re-
ceive commission in Air Service; had
served during the war in the field ar
tillery.
Corporal Raymond S. r. Bohle, 34th
Ordnance Company, twenty-three years
old, 24l4 Orleans Street, Baltimore, died
IN Aberdeen Hospital at $3.50 .. m.
Private Lee S. Hite, 14th Air Squad
ron, eighteen years old, of Murtinsburg,
w. Va, died late tonight of shock
and injuries.
Three Seriously Injured
The seriously injured are:
Captain Joseph +. Hail. Providence,
r. l., stationed with the Air Service
at Aberdeen; eyes and face struck by
fragments of bomb; will lose sight if
he RECEIVERS.
Private Samuel Weinstock, nineteen
of 613i Pine Street, Philadelphia, will
probably die from puneture Of lung.
Private Thomas w. Hail. 14th Air
Squadron, twenty, of Baltimore, Md,
leg fractured and shoulder badly cut:
probably internal injuries; condition
serious.
Others injured are:
First Lieutenant Louis r. T. Reese,
of New York City, thumb and fifth An
ger of right hand shot off.
First Lieutenant Carl G. Eliason, of
Hagerstown, Md, side and back badly
cut.
Private Lester J. Bigelow, S4th Ord
nance Company twenty, of Hampden
Mass, second and third fingers shot off
left. hand.
Private Stanley Made, 47th Ord
nance Compan y,~twenty- of Phila-
delph;a, arm fractured
Private Charles j. O'Neill. 34th Ord
nance Company, of Coatesville, Pa, cut
and bruised.
Private Marion D. Belvins, 14th Air
Squadron, cut and bruised on shoulder.
Private Edward Jarry, 34th Ordnance
Company, 21, of Willmansett, Mass,
fragment of bomb in foot.
Fragment Hits Bomb Maker
Major Hunter, of the Picatinny Ar
senal, who made the detonators for
the bombs which were being tested,
was injured by fragment which
lodged in his arm, but is not in the
hospital
Captain Joseph E. Hall, connected
with the Air Service post at the prov
ing grounds, acting as bomber, and
Lieutenant Carl 6. Eliason, acting as
pilot, were about to ascend with four
300-pound bombs and one ffty-pound
bomb in a De Haviland Four biplane
when the smaller bomb dropped from
the plane and, through an unusual Sc
ries Of mishaps to its mechanism, ex-
ploded
Private Allen w. Sherman and Elmer
E. Grimmel, who had turned the plane
around in preparation to it's flight, and
had just "let go" and dropped to the
ground, were directly under the plane
when the bomb exploded. They died al
most instantly. A civilian employee,
Robert M. Herr, who expected to receive
a commission in the Air Service In a
short time, was standing near the plane
and was struck by fragments. He was
taken to the Aberdeen Proving Grounds
Hospital, where he died at $3.50. Cor
poral Raymond S. F. Bohle, whose left
arm was fractured. was not supposed
to be in danger until he died suddenly
at $3.50 from internal injuries.
Captain Hall and Lieutenant Eliasoa,
who we're in the plane, were found in
the wreckage. Captain Hall was the
most seriously injured. He had been
struck in the face by fragments of the
bomb, and if he RECEIVERS is expected to
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