The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-09-09
REMOVE EIGHT
BODIES FROM
I. A. 7. plane
Probes Start as Identities
Are Established by
Charred JeWeIry.
LINER HAD EXPLODED
Ship, Racing Too Low,
Struck Tree and Plunged
Against Ridge.
By United Press

| By United Press
GALLUP, N. M, Sept. 9.-The
charred remains of seven men and
a woman, victims of the crash of
the T. A. T. air liner, City of San
Francisco into the side of Mt.
Taylor last Tuesday, were moved to-
ward their final resting places to-
day, while officials began series OF
investigations to determine, if pos
sible, responsibility for the latest
tragedy of the air.
| A greWSome caravan carted the
remains of the five passengers and
three crewmen from the scene Of
the liners plunge. near the summit
of Mt. Taylor, over precarious
trail twenty niles to Grants. The
bodies then we're placed aboard
ambulances and sent to Gallup and
Albuquerque to be prepared for
| burial.
Thrown Off Course
First official investigation of the
crash came late Sunday when q
coroner'S jury assembled at the al
most inaccessible spot on Mt. Tay-
| lor, around the Strewn wreckage OF
the once proud airliner, peered at
the burned bodies, and tangled mass
of plane. and returned the routine
verdict that the party of eight pas
sengerS came to their deaths as a
result of an airplane accident
The great ship appeared to have
been racing at an altitude too low to
permit of crossing and struck the
mountain a side blow. First lofty
tree had been decapitated. This ac-
cident alone probably was enough
to doom the sky cruiser and its
party.
The craft was thrown off its
course and plunged through the tall
trees, cutting off pines as a moving
machine would have trimmed
meadow grass.
The terrifying plunge had ended
against a rocky, timber sprinkled
ridge, where the plane crashed and
then exploded with a force that
threw stones. branches and rocks in
all directions.
1t was sight that appalled, many
of the strange party of searchers,
fifty-seven in all, including In
dians, white guides, business men,
ranchers, government employees and
newspaper men.
Watches Are Stopped
| The tense position of the bodies,
all with hands firmly clutched, left
more than hint of brief terrify-
ing experience-the hurtling of a
great plane through the trees. the
explosion and death and incinera-
ton for all.
There were eight burned bodies.
only two of them not too badly
scared to make identification possi-
BILE. These later were given names
through various articles, including
rings and watches. The bodies were
| identified as:
M. M. Campbell, Cincinnati; Will
liam H. Beers, Merrick, l.. l., N. Y:
Harris Livermore. Boston: A. S. Nc
Gaffey, Albuquerque; Mrs. Cornia
Raymond, Glendale, Cal, passen-
gers; Chief Pilot J. B. Stowe, Coz
Pilot Edwin A. Diets, Courier @. r.
Garfield, crew.
The time of the disaster was set at
11:01 a. m. Tuesday by the fact that
all the watches of the plane and its
passengers were stopped at that
hour.
Charges that Chief Pilot J. B.
Stowe did not want to leave AIbu-
querque at 10 a. m. last Tuesday be-
cause Of the adverse weather condi-
tions, but had taken the plane UP
on its fatal fight at the orders Of
his superiors, we're made at the
scene of the wreckage Sunday, but
official confirmation Of Stoves OBJ
| iectinns were lacking