Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1921-07-11
PLANE N PLUNGES
CRUSHING TEN
Fifty Others Hurt, Some
Fatally, and Sixteen
Cars Destroyed
TWO PILOTS SAVED :
TWO PILOTS SAVED
Explosion and Fire Fellow Crash
All The Victims Were Spectators
2000 Pounds of Dynamite Near.

iMounNlsvElfe, w Va, judy lite
,s,rsons wele killed end so injured
g sericarsigy-at Langfn Field her
..ga yesterday when Mart.n bona
ng plane crashed into a group o
lltomcI5IeIs parked on the grounds
AN explosion followed, setting f:r
10 .ttI.e machines.
The dead were aM spectators. Lieut.
J. r. McJve, pilot, and Lieut.. T. II
3unI!ccI, assistant pilot, wena RESCUED
py Carl Md1ber, coach elf Bethany Col
iege.
The kncwn dead are:
fMls. George Long, aged 80, Monn'l:
Jalte.
Frederick Edge As, Woodland, w
ya
Gail Ps.Ltt. 1G Mcuntlsviqle.
Ralph Hartseil. 13, MountEsvlGle.
Charles Hartsterl, so father of the
Istiassal boy.
Mrs. A. Stevens, %, MmntHsvdlle.
WaiSeer Montgomery, 40 Bealaire
Mlio-
Three, unidentified charred bodies,
NE CT which, is loel1eved to be that of
he un$sisirllg macNhnrist off the wrecked
lame.
Most of tine injured were taken to
Ire G1ein;1a.e HcspNtal, where 1t was
repcntedifive were III, a seritHls condi-
t::en. "A lrhys,:@iaca's office neara,y also
was used as am emergency hospital,
where IL was a,epo4ited two had died.
The k1own dead wea'e Of Mounrs
VILE, with the exception Of Edge,
whose homie was at Rount Bottom, W..
Va.
Iieuienantls McIve aml Dunton were
ta3dIag off in The government plane
from Langln FasGd, startling from the
south side CT the field They had risen
sbcus 80 feet, according to the reports
whsn the plane swung sharply to itle
Neft and seenlehl about to hit a ham
ger Am aipparerit effort was malde, i
was said, to threw the plane 1nto the
nI:vesL but i'll was flying too low and
crashed irito a l;E!a. of automobiles
'F;ned sTong the niver roank.
Sixteen automobiles were burned
ana THE G.ead, TN mcsat instances, were
trapped in the machines.
Sergt. Ray Dudley, on duty at The
f;,tlA, assisted Coach MiIlsr forme,
lamy sa.atcr in eMtaEcatfng Mclve
and Du:l:cn fl2m the aa'pgane.
An erg1Me Of the Wheeling fire de
pae,.ment was wrecked when attempt
.rIgto reach the scene of the disaster
The pilots arrived at Moundsville
Saturday afterroon with the bomber
from THE Martin factories at Cleveland
and were Tsaving Lamelsn Field here
fcr langley Field, where the plane
was no be put into service.
Nearly q score eff persons were
either ,ournes cr injured so severely
as ito require surgical attention. Of
the :spumed at THE Glendale Hospital
the following We're reported as the
NEST ,seuic-S cases:
Stanley P&inick, aged s, Mounds
Vile, skrM fractured; Lecnard Dar-
nah, so, Moundsvsyfe, skull fractured;
Mrs. George Meutz, Bel!afre, Ohio
hurt thaae,rnally and shoulder fractur.
ed. Many othsn' residents of Mounds.
vile 2nre also a. ttle hospital being
t1sated fer irpuaies and burns. ill.
cgudrrsg Mrs. Mary Stevens and he,
slaughter Alice, who were reported ai
fir,t as being amond the dead.
]. NJ. McBmocm and Mrs Mari q
Keyser, Of Mopardsyille, We're Knocked
clean of blazing machines by tne pro
,pe,Ier eff the iocrfber, and ALTHOUGH
severely hrr6sed and shaken, were no
se.Icusly injured a.
Le,pten'ar,ts McIve and Dunton, AM
Sergeant James Long, in charge G
the ffsld, declined 10 make any com
merit as to bhe cause of the accident
lieutenant Dunton suffered Sigh
burns about the face and hands ;bu
rpsather he nor his condpanion wen
hrsi5 sevealsgy. Both sNe rsgulanly ait
baehIsi 10 LaMlg.n Field. ,t4 .
Sixteen aliESlmdb!!es We've crushe
into q mass and set afire, mary. Q
them filled with people.