Evening star., 1935-10-07
mo Collision Collision, Pr
lot Noted for Careful Fly
ing, Dies With 9 PaSSen-
gers and 2 of Crew.
MYSTERY Wells CAUSE:
WEATHER EXCELLENT
Fleet of Planes Searches Area
Just West of Cheyenne Before
Wreckage Is Found Near Dawn.
200 Soldiers From Fort War
rem Guard Bodies.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHEYENNE, Wyo, October T.
Twelve personS-nine passengers and
a crew Of three-Were crushed to death
early today as a United Air Lines
transport plane crashed on knoll on
the rolling plains IS miles west Of
here The ship was flying from Oak
land, Calf, to New York.
The veteran pilot, H A tNo Col
lision) Collision. apparently had start
ed down from high attitudes in ideal
weather with his twin-motored liner,
preparatory to a scheduled stop here,
when he struck the top of one hill, lost
his propeller and plummeted against
another hillside.
The plane smashed into the ground
about ais am, mountain standard
time. 1t was torn and twisted, but
did not catch fire.
After a regular stop at Salt Lake
City Just before last midnight the
cross-country liner (U. A. L. trip No.
a. had reported its progress by radio
and asked wind information just five
minutes flying time west Of Cheyenne.
Another Ship Sought, Too.
The wreckage was found by a feet
of searchers dispatched from here
near dawn Just as another band OF
airmen took off from Salt Lake City
to seek a Standard Oil Co. transports
ship, missing since Sunday in the
briny area of Great Salt Lake, with
three persons aboard
| Besides Copilot George Batty and
/ Stewardess Leona Mason. a tentative
/ list of those killed in the disaster was
/ announced by United Air Lines as fol-
/ lows:
G. H. Miner, Park Lane Hotel.
Chicago.
C. H. Matthews, jr.. Pittsburgh, vice
president of the Union Trust Co.
John F. Cushing of Evanston. Ill,
/ president of the Great Lakes Dredge
g. Dock Co of Chicago.
Roy r. Bane. en- route from Salt
Lake City to Chicago.
Vincent Butler of San Francisco.
Miss Juliet Hillman of Pittsburgh.
Walter B. Crandall, Associated Oil
Co.. San Francisco.
Helen Warren, company employe.
of Chicago.
Mrs. Cathcart Of Portland, Oreg.
The plane, which carried mail as
we'll as passengers, was due in
Cheyenne at 2:10 am. mountain
standard time. Five minutes before.
Collision inquired of the airfeld here
for ground wind information.
THE plane apparently struck the
top of one hill. lost its propeller and
engine and then bounced, nose first,
against the top of another hill" said
Bill Hoare of United Air Lines
I'VE have been unable to determine
the exact cause of the accident The
weather was excellent and it appeared
Collision had good flying speed.
When he did not land after Is
minutes, we sent other planes out to
| try to locate him. They flew until
dawn before the wreckage was sighted
near the brow of hill, just east Of
the Silver Crown radio beacon"
Collision Was Careful Airman.
Collision, a former Army airman and
a mail flyer since 1921, won his Sobri-
quet, mo Collision" for careful pilot
ing He held many speed records Of
the early days of mail flying, having
participated in the fight of half ton
Of mail from San Francisco to Chi
cago with four other pilots in IS hours
and 38 minutes, maintaining an aver-
age speed of l4l miles per hour
Over a roughly made trail, by auto
(See CRASH, Page p