Norwich bulletin., 1921-05-30

ington on navy motor trucks. Meantime | officers in charge of ambulances had been l sent from this city and the bodies were transferred to them and carried to Wal ter Reid hospital here. The families of the dead have been notified and their wishes with regard to the funerals will be carried out For the trip to Langley Field from Washington, which began yesterday morning, the plane was stripped of tis hospital equipment and seats provided for the passengers who were taken to the Virginia aviation grounds to witness review of the army air fleet which is to participate in the naval bombing tests off the Virginia Capes in June and July. Suggestions that the wrecking of the plane was caused by a bolt of lightning was secuted by army air service officials 1 who declared that there was no record of Ilebtning hitting plane They said that ever had a bolt struck the Curtiss- Eagle it could have done little if any damage. as the lightning could not have
 affected a grounding necessary to cause
 damage.
 Theories of Some Officers
 The theory of some officers is that an
 unusually heavy blast of wind struck the ship on one side and unbalanced it, send ing it into nose dive from which 1t could not recover because of the short
 distance to the ground.
 In preparation for the official inquiry 1 Lieutenant Paul C. Wilkin went to the
 scene of the accident today to take pho tographs of the wreck and to obtain from
 eye witnesses and others any possible in
 formation that might be of use in solT-
 Ing what is now mystery
 Statements of naval officers at Indian
 ,,I7 fall ny1lHu -hR Rrf iE-
 tarce caused surprise to army air ser
 wee officials who examined the person.
 al effects of the passengers which were
 brought to Boiling Feld today. A stick
 of shaving soap and it's nickled plated
 container was found smashed almost as
 fiat as a knife blade. A heavy black
 handback was ripped and torn while a
 straw hat which one of the civilians had worn was torn to shreds.
 Lieutenant Colonel Miller was na-
 tive of Illinois and was appointed to the army from Missouri. He served in the
 Spanish-American war The Philippines
 where he won the congressional medal of honor and in the world war. He was ex-
 ecutive officer of the aviation division of the army when the United States de- l clared war on Germany and later wa:
 assigned to cammand Mitchell Field Long Island. He was A years old and i; } survived by his widow and several chil - dren.
 S The action which won for him tn,
 highest decoration within the gift of th
 American government took puace on Tial .. Island on July 9 1909. The American
 were opposing hostile Moros and Colone d Miller under heavy fire with the assist
 ance of enlisted men placed a machin u gun in advance of it's former position, a u a distance of about 20 yards from the en
 emy in accomplishing which he wa D obliged to splice a piece of timber to on '' leg of the machine guns tripod
 IL MT. Connolly was the Washingto
 representative of the Curtiss Airplan r. Company and was born at Dubuqu, II Iowa, A years ago. He served in tn n air service during the war with tn 'l rank of major. For a time he was execu e tive officer in command of Wilbur WrigF
 aviation school, Fairfield, Ohio, and a flew for Liberty loans
 H. Graduating from Cornell University. n 1S97 MT. Connolly received the LII t degree in the New York law school 'e 1898 and afterwards took postgrad dua in courses at Oxford, Heidelberg and Ba liol College. He was a member of il le sixty-third congress and was q delegat Id at-large to the democratic national co Tn vention at St. Louis in 1916. He was q ie feated for the United States senate e. 1914 by Senator Cummins and then b
 came interested in alrplane manufactilr
 He also was a regent and member of il
 executive committee of the Smithsonis ht Institute and had many business come C. tions in Iowa.
 u' MT. Connolly was a member of fl ne American Legion and of the Aero Gil u- of America, the Metropolitan ClIh f ds Army and Navy Club and the Nation ne Press Club. He was president of f as Iowa state lodge of Elks in 1913 and "
 member of the National Carria 7, Builders association, of which he " gle president in 1908.
 es Lieutenant Ames had served in av, H tlon Tor a number of years. He enli! ns ed ln the British army at the outbreak ne the war and later was transferred lIo the American forces in France. He W dy testing and engineering officer at BolIi
 heid and was regarded as an author nut in aero-engineering and testing. ne was married about three weeks ago at Lleutenants McDermott and Penney Fly were stationed at Langley Field. to whi
 they recently were transferred from K
 ley Field, Texas for the bombing tes With the navy next month. Their ho no addresses could not be obtained hera Iot MT Ratchelder was a former nev wn paper man and was a native of Ali ch' N. r. He was Al years old and was 7 ng or the organizers of the American 4 a tonobile Association and had made yer nome in Washington for seven years on S'nce the association opened It's natio, ls- heaoquarters in Washington