The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1928-12-27
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June 9-Southern Cross arrived safe
~ At Brisbane. Australia.
Colonel Ltndbergh given first master
OF aeronauties degree by New York
university.
June l0-Southern Cross landed al
sydney. Australia.
June l2-Captain Carranza completed
nonstop fght from Mexico City to
Washington.
June l7-Amelia Earhart and COM
panions. In airplane Friendship. hopped
off from Trepassey, N. f,
June iS-Captain Amundsen and I'VE
companions lost in attempt to reach
Mobile party in plane.
Airplane Friendship landed In BURY
inlet. Wales
June ia-Major Maddalena reached
Mobile ami fve companions by airpiane.
June 24-Swedish airman rescued
July s-Ferrarin and Del Prete.
Italians. hoped Off at Rome for Brazil
July 6--ltalian flyers landed near
Port Natal Brazil. having made new
distance record of 4.449 miles
July 1l--Russian aviator discovered
Doctor Maimgren and two companions.
members of Mobile party who had wan
deIed over ice AZ days but he could
not land
July i2-Russian icebreaker Krassin
rescued Malmgren's campanions but
found Malmgren had been dead
month; il then rescued the five men
left near Foyn island by Mobile.
July lS-Aviators rescued Sora and
Won Dongen, who were lost while
hunting for the Italia survivors.
Capt Emilio Carran2a. Mexican good
will flyer, killed by lightning in New
Jersey.
July ib-Icebreaker Krassin picked
up Russian Aviator Chukhnovsky aud
four companions who had crashed
while hunting the Mobile party
July Sl-Nobile and survivors of his
Aug. Capt. c. Il. Courtney and
three companions, dying from the
Azores TO Newfoundland, were forced
down in midocean and picked up by a
Idzikukowski and Kubala, Polish
aviators, started flight from Paris TO
New York.
Aug 4-Polish flyers fell in ocean
and we're picked up by steamer.
Aug l6-RasseI and Cramer few
from Rockford H. to Cochrans Ont
on way to Stockholm
Aug 1S-Rockford flyers left Coch.
rane for dount Evans. Greenland. and
Aug. 2o-Art Gobel few from Los
Angeles to New York In Is hours SIS
minutes. without stop.
Sept, 2-Hassell and Cramer found
safe In treenland; plane disabled.
Maurice Bokanowski. French minis
ter of air and commerce. and four aids
killed In airpiaee accident,
SEPT. 5-Thirty seven airplanes start.
ed from New York in transcontinental
Sept. lo-Earl Rowland. Kansas. won
In Glass 4 of aerinl derby.
Sept. 1S-spanish inventor flew
across English channel in new gyro-
Oct. 1.-THE Graf Zeppelin. great
German dirigible, started from Fried
richschafen. Germany. for the United
Oct 1.-THE Graf Zeppelin landed
safely at Lakehurst. N. ]
Oct 17-Commander Fl. c. Mcdonald
English aviator; started solo fight
from Newfoundland to England in
small piane and was lost
Oct. 25-Tucker and Collyer flew
from New York to Los Angeles in "a
hours 81 minutes.
Oct. 29-Graf Zeppelin began lite trir
Nov. Graf Zeppelin arrived al
| Friedriehschafen. Germany.
| Nov fucker and Collyer, cross
/ continent record holders. killed in Arr.
iona in crash # plane.
Dec I2--International civil aviator
/ conference opened in washington
Dec. 17-Delegates to aviation con.
| ference celebrated at Kitty Hawk. N
/ O., the twenty-fffth anniversary of the
4 first fight by the Wright brothers.
DISASTERS
jan 2--Russian steamer foundered II
Black sea- 200 drowned
Jan 9--Twenty- men killed By
mine explosion at West Frankfort, III
Feb f0-Twelve men killed and 81
! hurt In oil refinery explosion al Ev
Thirty whine killed in fire in Hollingei
gold mine a Fmmns. Ont
Feb 12-Thrteen killed by mine ex
ploslon al Whitehaven England
Feb 2t-Mne explosion at Jenny
4 Lind, Ark. killed 10 men.
March lO-Two hundred killed h,
Mount sefrat landslide in Santos. Bra
March ls-san Francisquito dam
water supply for Los Angeles. broke
1876 drowned.
March 27-Barthquake in udin
province italy. killed ten and injured
March 81 : Earthquake shattere,
Smyrna killing many persons
April 13-Exposion destroyed dane
hall in West Plains, Mo-, killing
April l4-Forty three killed b
earthquake in the Balkans.
April 16-Disastrous earthquake Il
Peru, many killed
April 22-Earthquake in centra
Greece ruined Corinth and killed man
May ls-Explosion in mine at Ma
ther. Pa. killed 1893.
May 22-Mine explosions at Yukor
W. Va, and Kenvir. KY, killed 80 mer
June 16-Tornado in Oklahoma kille
July volcanic eruption wiped GU
town Of LiSog in Philippines
July 7-Chilean army transport sanl
Aug. 6-Eight killed. So Injured i
Illinois Central train wreck nea
italian submarine sunk In collision
with q men aboard all Of whom per
ished.
In New York subway wreck.
Sept 13-Fourteen killed by lorna
does in Nebraska and South Dakot;
Destructive hurricane swept Port
Rico and Lesser Antilles: hundred
Sept SEPT 14-About 20 persons killed b
tornado in and near Rockford Ill
Sept l5-Tropical hurricane reache
central Florida, doing great damag
and killing 2.200.
Sept 23-About 100 persisted In this
alter fire in Madrid. Spain.
Oct 3-French submarine sunk b
collision with Greek steamer: 43 me
Oct. 2s.Thrty- one killed in trai
Nov. e-Severai sicilian towns de
stroyed by eruption Of Mt. Etna.
Nov l2-Liner Vestris sank 240 mile
off the Virginia capes: III lost q
rescued.
Nov 24-rerrlfc storms in the Philil
pines and on the coasts of Europe.
Dec Earthquake In southeI
Chile wrecked several towns and kille
about 200 persons
NEUROLOGY
Jan 2-Loie Fuller. dancer. In Par!
c. M. kittle. president of Sears Ro
buck & Co, in Chicago;