Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-18
TEN PERSONS DIE,
) HURT AS PLANES
! CRASH IN z STATES
Sightseers Are Victims in
New Jersey Tragedy, Cost
ing Seven Lives.
THREE NAVAL AVIAT0RS
. KILLED IN CALIFORNIA
Flyers, Apparently Lost in Desert,
Drop to Earth Near
Palmdale.
By the Associated Press.

PLA1NF1ELD, n. j., Septem Der II
Seven persons were killed today an6
five injured when a Fokker airplane
which had flown over all the airways
OF Europe and had made one famous
trip from Holland to West Africa
crashed in an apple orchard near New
Market. The machine was owned by
the Reynolds airways and was brought
to this country from Holland about
two months ago. 1t set out from Had
ley Field this afternoon with its load
of passengers seeking their first thrill
in the air.
List of Victims.
The dead:
Harry A. Chandler. New Bruins.
wick, pilot.
J. V. Charley" King, Plainfield
mechanic.
Russell Campbell, Plainfield, treas.
urer and superintendent of the Sub.
urban Transit Co.
Russell Campbell, jr., aged Z, Plain
field.
Miss O'Neil, Newark.
Mrs. Fred Donovan, Plainfeld.
Frank Heater, New Brunswick.
The injured, who were brought to
Muhlenberg Hospital. in this city,
are:
Matthew Lutz. New Brunswick.
Louis Pellis, New Brunswick.
Lorraine Donovan, Plaintield.
Nerna Donovan, her sister.
Bessie Heater, aged 16, daughter of
Frank Heater.
n. King, the mechanic, met death
on his second day in aviation. He
quit a job as a garage mechanic on
Thursday night in order to go into
something with bigger future.
Saw Plane Drop.
There were no eyewitnesses of the
crash. Rudolph kanpf, proprietor of
the Five Acres Restaurant which ad-
joins the apple orchard in which the
plane struck, said that he saw the
plane, heard the 45O-horsepower
Jupiter engine go dead and watched
the plane turn over on one side and
drop below the trees.
On the other side of the apple
orchard is the Schensck farm. Fred
and George Seheneck were the first
10 reach the scene OF the crash. BY
advice of police they had little to say
of what they saw there. They pulled
the five bodies out of the plane and
laid out the injured on the grass on
the orchard awaiting arrival of ambu-
lances from this city.
The entire staff Of Hadley Field
was rushed to the place of the acci-
dent and State police were called out
to assist in holding the curious crowds
in check. By dark every road was
jammed with cars, one count disclos-
ing more than 500 within an area of
a quarter of a mile,
Fell $50 Feet.
The Schenecks said that the plane
was about $50 feet up when the motor
stopped. 1t seemed to waiver for a
minute and then slowly went into a
dive. After the crash there was not
a sound, no groans and no cries and
they notified police before going near
the plane. When they approached it,
they found that all the occupants were
either dead or unconscious.
Charles Saramba, who was sitting
on a railroad bridge. near the scene
of the crash, told the same story.
Heater and Miss O'Neil died in
Muhlenberg Hospital, the others were
dead when taken from the plane.
Coroner Edward Gowen Of Middle
sex County took charge of the bodies
and removed them to his morgue at
New Brunswick. He said he would
have no announcement as to inquest
or investigation until he had con-
derred with the county physician and
other officials.