Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 211, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1911 — ONE OF THE PERILS OF AVIATION [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

ONE OF THE PERILS OF AVIATION

AMONG the spectacular happenings at the aviation meet at Chicago was the destruction of J. A. D. McCurdy's new biplane by fire. The aviator struck an electric wire running to a yacht club house and his machine was upset and burned up. Mr. McCurdy escaped unhurt. - t