New Britain herald., 1927-09-21
OLD GLORY GOING % MILES AT FALL
Finders Of Battered WTeCkage
 Vision Accident
OIL ON SEA FIRST CLUE
Right side Of Craft Believed To Have struck Water Jiret-Part of Ship smashed with Axe, Dis CcNcrcrS Say.

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 Bay Roberts. wfoundland. Sept. 21 (Pl-Bcli"f that the mono plane old Glory lost at sea while Iattcmrting a transatlantic flight. hit the water head-ou with a slight list 10 the right while going about 90 miles an hour. was expressed today hy members of the crew Of the steamer Kyle. The Kyle had put into this port with a portion of the wrockaEc of the plane. recovered several hundred miles off the New fouudjand coast.
 Members Of the Kyle's crew thought the right side of plane must have struck the water first. ripping out the top Of the fIselagc which carried with it part of the left side Of the plane
 The 47-foot section Of one Of the wings of the plane. with a portion Of the under carriage attached, which the Kyle recovered. lay on the deck Of the steamer today with the under side up. plainly showing tho painted stars and stripes. The struts Of steel tubing three inches in diameter were smashed as if with an axe.
 All the supports from the under side of the wing to the body of the plane were badly broken. The ply wood which formed the covering of the plane was splintcred and the framing of spruce wood three and half by two inches was snapped off like match wood
 Oil Is First Clue
 II was through a film Of luhricat- ing oil on the surface of the ocean that the wrcckage was located. The Kyle, q Newfoundland government steamer. had been chartered by the New York Mirror to search for the plane and it's occupants, Philip A. Payne, managing editor of the Mir TOT and flight director for William R. Hearst, sponsor of tho flight; Lloyd Bertaud and J. D. Hill. CO., pilots.
 The Kyle, starting from St. Johns proceeded $50 miles east by south to the position from which the steamer Carmania had estimated the Old Glory's s 0 $. call had come on the morning Of September '. From there the Kyle headed northeast.
 The search was conducted on tho theory that when the plane struck the watef the lubricating tanks probably had burst and the oil had spread over the surface. This the ory proved correct. The Kyle finally discovered wide film of oil on the ocean. which at the time was perfectly calm.
 The steamer ran slowly along the edge of the oil for fifteen minutes. Suddenly the lookout shouted;
 "Wrcckage two points on the port bowl"
 Wreck Hoistcd Aboard
 Ten minutes later the steamer was alongside all that was left of the Old Glory. A boat was lowered and the WreCkage was taken aboard. Attached to it were three tanks. all of which were full. Members of the crew were unable to determine, however, whether there was any gasoline in the tanks or whether they had filled with water. as the contents spilled into the sea when the wrechage was hoisted aboard the Kyle
 After the remnants of tho plane were made fast aboard the Kyle the steamer Steercd east northeast in the hope that some trace might be found Of the occupant Of the plane. It was though they might have been able to escape in their rubber boat
 An all night search was without result. The next morning the Kyle ran into Q dense fog which con- tinucd for two days. For several days, however, the Kyle zigzagEtd | over the ocean. Nothing more was found and finally a shortage of fuel compelled tn" steamer to return to Newfoundland
 Meanwhile the little steamer Sil- Yer City had put out from st. Johns with three representatives of Mir Hearst aboard together with Cap tain Sidney Bennett. the only expert aviator in Newfoundland. Thos men had planned to board the Kyle in mid-Occan for the purpose of eX- amining the wreckage. but rough weather prevented this until both ships were off Cape Francis. They put into Bay Roberts last night
 lt was reported today that two experts from the factory where the Old Glory was built would arrive in St Johns on q Red Cross liner to- morrow.
 A representative of the Associated Press who was roWcd two miles through q driving rain and seas kicked high by a gale late last night, in q dory obtained from q fishing schooner. found on reaching the Kyle that strict orders had been reached that no one was to be all lowed aboard He finally persuaded members of the crew to permit him 10 climb 10 the deck and view the wrcckage. At that time no one else had visited the Kyle and per mission had been refused 10 the purscr, who's" wife and family live in Bay Roberts, 10 go ashore to see them.
 May Not Learn Cause
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