Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-15
Six Are Burned to Death
in Crash of Canadian
Plane Near Buffalo.
GIRL 'CHUTE JUMPER
PLUNGES TO DEATH
Four Perish When Two Ships Lock
Wings Over Chicago in Col
lision at 800 Feet.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
In the brief space of a few hours at
least IA persons plunged to their deaths
yesterday in five geographically widely
separated airplane accidents. Six. per-
sons perished when a passenger plane
crashed and burned between Merton
and Thorold, Ontario.
Four died in an air collision over
Chicago.
Two were killed at Berkeley. Calf.
when plane took fire in the air and
crashed into a house.
young woman tyro-parachute
jumper died at Wichita when the ap-
paratus failed to function
Near Minneapolis the pilot of a plane
was killed when he lost control of it
and made an unsuccessful parachute
jump.
Twelve passengers in a tri-motored
plane from Denver, which took the oc-
cupants to McCook, Nebr., to attend an
air meet, barely escaped possible death
or injury in forced landing in a rough
field near McCook. The ship was al
most wrecked.
L. ". Rex of Portland, Greg, was in
jured seriously at Medford, Greg, when
an airplane piloted by w. H. Muirhead
crashed. The pilot was not hurt.
Six Burned in Crash.
BUFFALO, N. Y, September IA [P).-
Six persons, including a woman and a
child, were burned to death shortly
plane belonging to Skyway, Ltd. of To-
ronto, crashed in a field between Meri-
ton and Thorold, Ontario.
The plane caught fire after the
crash and its occupants were burned
beyond recognition.
The bodies were removed to st. Cath
crime, Ontario.
Chief of Police Frank Collins of Thor
old. who visited the place of the wreck.
said he helped remove the charred
bodies of a woman, a child and four
the plane had taken off an hour be-
fore the accident from new airport in
st GATHERINGS, where two-day celebra-
tion was in progress. Stunt flights and
other features had attracted big
crowd to the airport. A special rate
was offered by Bradfield to passengers
who wished to go up for a short flight
and five in the crowd accepted.
Bradfield. an experienced flyer. was a
war pilot and an air engineer and had
to his credit more than $500 hours in
said the cause of the accident probably
never would be known.
A list of the dead given out at ST.
Catharines undertaking room tonight
follows:
Frank M. Bradfeld, Toronto.
James Mcdonald, st. Catharines,
Ontario.
John Bond, st. Catharines.
Bonds 9-year -old son, Allan.
Mrs. Walter Bennett, Hamilton, On
tario.
Louis Bennett, st. Catharines Heights.
Planes Collide at 500 Feet.
CHICAGO, September IA CD.-Twc
airplanes collided at an altitude of SOC
feet here tonight, carrying four per-
sons to their deaths.
The dead included both pilots and a
passenger in each plane. They were
dead before rescuers reached the wreck
age. The dead were identified as:
Pilot Walter Meyers. licensed flyer
Mrs. Benjamin Burke, his passenger
and sister Of the owner of his plane.
Pilot Charles Crone, an unlicensed
pilot
william johnson. Deerfeld, Ill. his
passenger.
AS the planes neared each other, the
pilots apparently sensing the danger
endeavored to maneuver away from the
other plane. Meyers tried to sideclir
Crone's ship, but was unsuccessful.
Crone, seen by witnesses to be work.
ing frantically to prevent the collision
almost had his ship clear, but the wing
dipped slightly just when it appeared
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