The New York herald., 1922-04-08
SIX DIE IN HEAD-ON
CRASH OF PLANES in
LONDON-PARIS Line
Two Machines Flying in
Same Direction Col
lide in Fog.
TWO FROM NEW YORK
Mr.. and Mrs. Christopher
Bruce Yule Among
Dead Passengers.
ENGLISH PILOT ESCAPES
ENGLISH PILOT ESCAPES
Villagers See Brilliant Light
in Foggy Sky. Followed by
Falling Wreckage.

Special Cable TO THE New YORK HERALD.
Copyright, 1899, Jy THE NEW YORK HERALD.
New York Herald Bureau.
Paris, April Z.
Two Americans, Mr.. and Mrs Chris
topher Bruce Yule, the former an ex-
Major of the American army and an
exporter of New York, met a horrible
death in an airplane accident this
afternoon. vixen a huge Goliath pas
senger plane from Paris collided in the
fog above the village of Thieulloy,
near Grandvilliers. with a freight
carrying biplane coming from London.
Four others were killed.
Tie hour OF the tragedy has been
fixed by the broken watches in the
pockets of the victims. 1t was just
about 1850. r. NJ. Those of Grand
villiers who saw the accident declare
they had been watching for the French
airplane from Paris for more than an
hour when suddenly they saw the
Goliath approaching from the south.
Somewhat TO the west they heard the
buzzing and the whirring Of the postal
plane. The two pilots, they say.
seemed to be intent solely upon hold
ing their course.
At the fatal moment the British ship
appeared TO swerve abruptly to the left
and crashed into the passenger carry
ing craft, with an explosion which was
r~,,-v.1a ~, m t,,,x, xuion cf ernoka fhot
drifted upward in the mist. Then the
air was empty.
The dead are:
Mr.. CHRISTOPHER BRUCE YULE,
exporter, OF New York.
Mrs. YULE. New York.
NJ. BOURIEZ. French friend of the
Yules.
Pilot MIRE OF the French Goliath.
Mechanic SIMONE Of the Goliath.
A cabin boy. only passenger in British
plane.
n. : Duke. pilot OF the British plane,
Is : I.
Titus Berst and her daughter
LOIS. OF Erie. Pa. who had intended
flying to London with the Yues. de-
cided at the last moment not to make
the trip and left on the noon train for
London. Before staring they expressed
the fear that aerial travel was unsafe.
but both Mr.. and Mrs. Yule ridiculed
their timidity and declared that prob
ably they would never again have tho
opportunity 10 cross the Channel in an
airpiane. All were members OF a Clark
touris; agency party which arrived in
Europe recently from New York on
board the Empress Of Scotland.
Crash I'm Heavy Fog.
Official reports have II that the col
lision occurred at 2 o'clock this after
noon. The Paris plane left lie Bourget
aIrdrome about o'clock. while the Lon
don postal and freight ship. without pas
sengers. loft Croydon soon after 10
o'clock this morning. Throughout the
middle OF the day heavy clouds were
lowering. but Notwithstanding the
threatening weather Pilot MIre OF the
Farman Goliath decided 20 make the
trip accompanied by his experienced me-
chanic. Slmonc. When they were over
Grandyiliicrs the clouds gave way to a
dense fog. making visibility impossible
beyond hundred yards.
Usually the London airplanes follow
course several kilometcrs westward.
but by strange trick OF fate the plane
to-day found itself In the course Of the
Goliath. and--by an equally strange CO.
incidental the same tititude. 1000
feet Off the ground. IL belonged TO a
new company. and had been In service
only three days.
What happened can be only imagined.
The residents OF the neighboring villages
tell OF a brilliant Hash in the air as
the two craft met. and the falling TO
the ground Of burning wreckage and
blazing bodies
The light postal plane was entirely
wrecked and fell abiaxe 20 the ground.
Duke. the pilot was one of the most
noted British fliers. with long war
service TO hts credit
The young messenger who was with
him was found. IN buttoned livery. dead
In the open ncld
Goliath. Afiam~. WITS Cottage.
The Goliath with an inclosed cabin.
suffered an even worse fate. A. II fell
ahlnxel II landed on the roof ~ cot.
taEc, splintering into a thousand pieces.
iiberating the American passengers II
of the pilot Mirc. were recovered In Il
rnutiiated condition. while that of the
mechanic was burned almost beyond
recognition. The Frenchman. Bouric1.
whose body waH found IN nm adjacent
n@la. evidently had jumped from the
cabin window when the crash occurred.
One wing ana the rudder of tho Co
Hath torn of an the roillefou were