New Britain herald., 1926-08-19
AIR MINISTRY IS BEGINNING PROBE
 OF FATAL PLUNGE
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 spinning around below us. Then there was tremendous bump and a series fother crashes. Following. this there was horrifying silence, seeming more ominous than if there had been screams. I knew nothing more until l was pulled out. Dur Ing the flight over the channel l knew something was wrong when the mechanic came into the cock pit and seemed to be fixing some thing near the plane floor"
 Miss Edna Bennett of London, had just returned from a tour of the United States and Canada. She formerly was the dancing partner of Lou Hearn, appearing in "Mercen- ary Mary" for two months.
 Earth Seemed To Rise
 "The earth seemed to come up and slap us in the face" Miss Ben nett said. T threw myself on the floor of the plane, then the crash came and threw fat lady in my lap and I couldn't get up. I was in the back of the plane with the Gaden sisters and Stroh. It was those in front who received the brunt of the blow.
 Miss Bennett escaped with black eye and a few bruises.
 Condition Is Serious
 It was stated at Royal Victoria hospital this afternoon that the condition of Margaret Hazard and her grother, Stanley, is now con- sidered serious.
 Miss Searns and Miss Ames have been removed fro mthe hospital 10 the Beyan Nursing Home at Sand gate.
 List of Injured
 Nine of those injured in the wreck and who are in the Royal Victoria hospital, are Miss Mar garet Hazard, 616 West 18th street, New York city, both thighs fractured; her brother, Stanley Hazard, of the same address, fractured arm and leg; Harriet Ames, 135 West Kingsbridge road. New York city. both arms frac- tured; Miss Mildred Warden, Balti- more, Md. right arm fractured and scalp wounds; Miss Edna Searn, 75 Carlton terrace, New Rochelle, N. Y, confused hip and face bruises; Lawrence Stroh, of the borough of the Bronx, New York city, confused shoulders; Robert McAdam of Glasgow and the me- chanician.
 Miss Edna Bennett of London and three other injured persons are in the Bcvan nursing home, Sand gate. Miss Victoria Warden, a sis ter of Mildred Warden, is among them.
 Have Fair Chances
 All of the Americans in the Royal Victoria hospital rcgained consciousness this morning, and have a fair chance of recovery, the head doctor of the hospital in formed the Associated Press. Each of them, he said, is suffering more or less from shock as well as from their bodily injuries. Barring in ternal complications none was in immediate danger this morning.
 Survivors Story
 Mir. Stroh, who was less injured than any of those in the hospital here, attributed his escape to presence of mind. He said that he braced himself on his feet as he felt the crash coming. The air plane, he said, was in dense mist for some time and that suddenly he realized that the pilot was lost and was desperately trying to find landing place. Then came a terrific jolt and the plane apparently began to drop further.' Mir. Stroh said. Then we struck something. Be- fore l realized anything there was a terrible shock followed as I recollect it by series of tremen- dous crashes. Some say we struck barn and l heard we hit a hay stack, but I didn't see anything. I closed my eyes and don't really know what happened after that. Providence certainly was with us or otherwise we would have fallen into the water"