The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-03-31
CHAMPION CANADIAN
BASKETBALL TEAM
AMONG PASSENGERS
Mishap Occurred Not Far From
Place Where Knute Rockne
Died Two Years AGO
WAS MULTl-M0ToRED SHIP
Athletes Had Just Played Two
Game Series Against Amer.
lean Champs At Omaha

Neodesha, Kans., March 3l.-(P-A
big tri.motored private airplane car
rying the championship basketball
team Of Canada crashed near here
Friday, costing the lives Of five Of the
occupants and seriously injuring the
other nine passengers.
The ship, experiencing motor trou-
bic, plunged to the ground on . sod
den meadow twisted mass Of wreck
ege. It was en- route from Tulsa,
Okla, to Winnipeg. the home city Of
che team, the Canadian Toilers.
The dead:
A. H. Hakes Of Window and
Minneapolis, Mimi, pilot.
II. e. Eggens Of Hendricks.
MIMI, co-pilot.
Mike Shea, member Of the
team.
Jack H. O'Brien. Minneapolis.
owner Of the plane.
r. Fl. Bonynge, business man.
ager OF the team, Minneapolis.
Two Of the injured were re-
ported to be In . dying condition.
Tho injured:
Colonel A. C. Sampson, person.
ri representative Of the Mayor Of
Winnipeg, believed dying.
George wilson, manager q the
team, believed dying.
Lauder Phillips, player, cut.
Al Silverthorne, player. broken
arms and legs.
Bruce Dodds, player, internal
injuries afsd broken bones.
Joe Dodds, player, bruised.
Hugh Penwarden, player. crtd-
cal.
Ian Wooiey. player, badly IN.
jured.
Andy Brown, player. injuries
undetermined.
The plane left Tulsa. Okla, at Z ..
m. where the Canadian team had lost
two games of an international basket
ball series to the Tulsa Diamond OIL
ers, U. 8. amateur champions. The
series was to be continued in Winni-
peg next month.
It flew low over Neodesha and
crashed on a tank farm Of the Sin
clair Oil company. about five miles
north Of here at 1855 a. m. Observers
here said the big tri-motored all
metal plane appeared to be experience
ing motor trouble and that one wing
was low.
Silverthorne. a member Of the team,
said he was sitting in the rear Of the
passenger cabin when the pilot turned
his head, and over his shoulder re-
marked:
I'm having trouble with the motor.
I'm going to have to land. Every
body watch out"
"Then we fell,"' silverthorne said.
6ilverthorne. although In q critical
condition. was able to dictate mess
age to relatives In winnipeg before
he was taken into an operating room.
Reminds OF Rockne Crash
The crash came two years to the
day after the tragedy near Bazaar.
Kans, 100 miles away. which cost
the life Of Knute Rockne. famous
Notre Dame football coach, ana seven
other passengers Of q commercial
transport plane flying from Kansas
City.
Weather conditions were clear Fri
Gay, unlike those when the Rockne
plane was dashed to earth In q severe
storm.
The nose of the plane was buried in
the earth and the fuselage and wings
were crumpled into q twisted mass Of
debris.
Firemen who rushed to the scene
reported the wreckage did not catch
fire.
The injured were brought to . hos
pital here and physicians from sur
rounding towns were summoned to
assist In treating them.
Confusion reigned around the
vreckage when rescuers reached the
scene. Reports Of the disaster soon
spread about Neodesha and precipi-
tsted wild rush for the tank farm.
Persons living neat the scene said
the plane circled Z meadow. appar-
entity In distress. Upon striking the
ground the big ship turned end over
end.
All three motors were torn from the
plane.