Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1922-09-24
C R Ash Is
FAT AL TO
ALL ABOARD
army SHIP

W Netotattu Eftea
MINEOLA. sept. ss.-FIrst LIsuisn.
ant Raymond 4. Davis, United Stsles
army air servIce aud five enlisted men
were killed when . huge Martin housb-
Ing plane crashed % earth st Mitchell
field late tonight.
The enlisted men killed were First
Sergeant Thomas IIenfield. Corporal
David ". Sivien and Privates Eiwnrd
". Kane. Henry Hay NIehels and Irv.
Ing NJ. whitney. stationed at Mlchell
field.
A repori Of the accident ~ given eut
several hours laler by the adjuinnl's
office nj the field said that the plane
had been inspected shortly before lesv-
Ing The field and that the cause q tine
fatal accident probably never weuId
be- known"
Soon after leaving tho field ths
report sald. the plano passed out Of
the rays Of the huge searchlights which
had been arranged and used IN the
night air maneuvers. approached q
steep angle and then suddenly went
into n nose ave.
There were not lights ON the plane
m u fell. The crash occurred some dis
lance from the field"
Arnold r. Evers Of AmltyvilIe, who
was driving on the main rad 10 Garden
City. stopped his car and crossed into
tho field where the plane was burning.
He pulled the first of tho bodies from
he wreck.
Al! of the men killed with the ex.
ceptIon of Davis wss attached 10 the
sixth air park. stationed nf MltcAell
field. Bcnfield'a home address was
Chicago: ativen's home was IN New
York: Nichols came from caFhiil.
rexas. and Whitney from Ashburharn.
Mass. kane's address was. not siyen.
Although the plane fell In slsht Of
| thousands 81 persons and n Do Havt-
lAnd plane which was flying near the
| teuoP ~ lhs time as the .ssst1sat
tsSs6s6 "A q field nearby within . few
minutes. many conflicting reports which
sould not i~ confirmed were at onea
| In circulation.
An order from Major Weaver. stat
ing that no information Was N ~ o1vnp
bending 0 preliminary examination h1
wmy officers. r~tnr1sd the WORT q
gathering the fnets
Only charred i,ody was found a
he seat In the plane which Lieut..
Davis had occupied. He was vetsRan
G the world war and was officially
'rcdIted with ore German plane. Tue
bodies 81 Kane and BcnfIe,d were found
lear Of the wrcok. -,..-.
Ambnlances with motors running had
been kept waiting on the field all night
ready for any emergency. A. soon ~
| the plane crashed two of the ambu.
anccs sped over thu mile and . half
/ distance. civilian automobiles and .
fire chemical automobile took part IN
he race. The fire. apparatus flninss1
first st wire fence jusl outside whieh
he plane Ind fallen. The fence was
,roken 10 admit the rescuess Army
mfeeons found that the thrse men still
,lIve had been thrown clear of the
tanning wreck.
After the war maneuvers and the
Judges had decided the raiders had
Won. the airmen engaged In . flyino
ircus Illuminated by huge search lights
and checred by Thousands az persons
sho had gathered from all parts a
i.ang Island and New York City q
watch the military spectacle.
After the flying circus = number n
,viators took up passengers. selected
principally from the three hundred ~
'erye officers from the second corps
'rea for whose benefit the mimic war
fare had ieen wagcd.
Jwing 10 the fierceness cf the flames
which enveioped the huge bomber u
war impossible to learn Immediately
he names of the five paszenssrs whon
lieut.. Davis had taken up.
Immediately after the crash si
ources ~ information nj the fiyinl
ield were stopped BY order of Majol
Weaver. the commanding officer. pend
ng an investigation and until IN
iames q the victims had bcen ascer
aimed.
Al the passengers were army mon.
,ccorling "a the Garden City police. Il
vas not known whether. any were re
reserve officers. The police say tha
rotal;y one of the six killed was ~
'nlls,ed man serving as mechsnlcian.