The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-03-02
NAVAL ENSIGN
COMES TO GRIEF
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| new Win nef 1Or ABOUT ~ minutes.
The plane then landed and the woman
got out. The flyer then went back up
in the air and, after stunning for some
1 time, he got kite hooked on his tail.
He then circled low over Mrs. Likes
house with his left wing very low.
He came low along the beach and
knocked down q number of colored
women. 1 saw one little girl thrown
about 10 feet. He then landed in the
water with a broken wing"
| Clarence Neal, sol East DeLeon
street-"After the flyer had put the
woman on the beach he went back up
and / saw him get the kite hooked on
| his tail. He then circled low over
Mrs. Likes house with one wing very
! low. He was coming straight for me
and I lodged, falling on the sand to
| keep from being hit. When I got up
n saw the negro women lying on the
ground and one in the water. 1
dragged her out and then waded out
| to the plane. The flyer was sitting in
| the seat. I said: Are you hurt" and
he said, Yes So 1 pulled him out of
the plane and carried him ashore. He
sat down on the beach minute and
| then walked away"
| Mrs. Sherman Likes, 500 East De-
| Leon street, was standing on the
back porch of my house where l could
| see the beach about so yards away.
saw the flyer stunning and saw him
come down so low over the peach tree
in the yard that 1 thought he would
strike it. Before this l had seen him
take up a woman passenger and bring
her back. After flying the last time
close to the peach tree he swooped
/ -,
down and then landed in the water.
ran to the beach but he had come
ashore when 1 got there"
Fred Schiller, go East Salamanca
street, saw the flyer take a woman
passenger with him. She was a blonde
with a lot of reddish hair built up
high on her head. After being in the
air about 25 minutes he came down
and landed her. He then went up and,
after circling around for some time.
he got a kite hooked on his tail. He
came down toward the beach and his
| left wing was much lower than the
right. He SKINNED along the beach
and knocked down a colored woman,
swerved and then knocked down the
others. He finally landed about 100
feet from the shore, with a broken
left wing"
Mrs. j. n. Robinson, S11 E. DeLeon
street, was on the beach with the
other people when the accident hap
pened. We had been down to see the
flyer take Up a woman passenger. This
pa ssenger was a blonde with a lot of
henna -colored hair. After he put the
woman back on the beach he did some
stunts and hooked the kite. I saw him
coming toward me and lodged. When
turned back from the fence I saw a
baby, a grown girl and an old woman
on the sand. I turned and ran away
| then and when l came back a crowd
had gathered"
Mrs. Clarence Neal, sol East De-
Leon street, saw the flyer take up
the woman passenger and put her out.
, Then I saw him catch the kite. When
saw him coming low along the beach
ran to the fence. When I looked
again the people We're stretched out
on the sand and the plane was in the
water"
Mrs. J. Valanzeno, S21 East DeLeon
street, was in the center of the
beach watching the flyer. He had
taken up a woman passenger and put
her back on the beach. After circling
around he caught the kite in his tail
anu SldI16d " NOiliS uONil dIOllS the
beach with one wing low. 1 fell and
buried myself in the sand as much as
could. / could feel the plane when
it went over me- and when I got up
it was in the water and the people
had been killed.
J. Valenzano, S21 East DeLeon street
I-Corroborated his wife's statement
and saw no more.
Miss Ethel Lindsey, 81 East DeLeon
street, went down to the beach
when the plane first landed and got a
picture of the plane, the flyer and the
woman in the plane with him before
they went up the first time. After he
came back with the woman I saw him
go back up again and do stunts the
same as the flyers did over the city
on last Armistice day at Palmetto
beach. AS he came over Mrs. Likes
house he had his left wing very much
lower than the other one. I saw him
hit the negroes, saw the other people
dodge and then / ran"
Miss Annie Mae Way, TIA East
Gregory street-"I had been standing
on the beach and saw the flyer take
up the woman passenger. l saw him
stunning as Miss Lindsey says, and
the / saw him catch the kite. After
that l saw him coming toward the
beach and ran away"
Miss Clara Mensinger, S29 East De-
Leon street-'T am a visitor here and
of course, was very much interested
in the flyer. | saw him take up the
woman passenger but he was gone so
long and went so high that 1 came
home and got spy-glass. 1 looked
for him but he was still in the air and
so I went back to finish my dinner
When he went by the house he was so
low 1 could see him through the lat
tice on the porch. L ran out and saw
him go along the beach and knock the
people down"
Ensign Acorn had resigned his COM
mission from the service and was to
have been discharged in few days.
He and Hal Hart, who, under the
name of Hap Hazard, did a wire act
at the Isis early last week for the
American Legion, were to have Joined
tho Sails Elo+0 circus ar tha Coliseum