Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1911 — Two Aviators Killed Saturday; Folly of Reckless Flights Proven [ARTICLE]

Two Aviators Killed Saturday; Folly of Reckless Flights Proven

Arch Horsey and John Moisant, two aviators, or flying-machine riders, were daring men. Horsey had accomplished much during his short career as a 1 birdman. He was the aviator who flew from Chicago to Springfield and then to St. Louis. He held the world’s highest-up record, having sailed over two miles above the earth. Bnt be tried things so daring that they were foolhardy and was killed In California when at a height of three hundred feet he lost control of his machine and it fell to earth. Moisant was only a short distance in the air when his machine got out of order and he was thrown to his death. . They were victims of an ambition to do something that would give them great names. Had they been engaged simply in the perfecting of flyingmachines the sympathy would have been more sincere.