Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 248, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1911 — Noted Aviator killed at Macon, Georgia, Fair Grounds. [ARTICLE]

Noted Aviator killed at Macon, Georgia, Fair Grounds.

Eugene Ely, one ot the best known aviators, was killed at the Macon, Ga., fair grounds Thursday afternoon at about 3 o’clock. He had made a sue-' cessful flight in the morning and had I gone aloft again at 2:45 in the afternoon and after circling the grounds several times he made a sensational din and as he. attempted to turn the dgainkomething gave way and the machine fell. He attempted to jump from the machine buit fell beneath it and his body was badly mangled, many bones being broken. He rallied for just a second, and said, “I lost control; I know I am going to die.” He-breathed his last soon after the words had passed bls lipa. Ely was the first man to alight on plane. During an aviation meet in San-Mateo County, California, Ely, in a biplane, flew-from the aviation camp to San Francisco, about twenty miles, and sighted on the deck of the cruiser Pennsylvania, anchored in San Franciscoßay. After holding a reception on board the warship, Ely flew back to the aviation camp. Previous to this time, Ely had made a flight from the deck of a warship anchored in Chesapeake Bay. Although he struck the water when he left the "hip, he managed to reach shore. was engaged as an automobile salesman in San Francisco. He became prominent as an aviator about two years ago. ■ f ""■ ■ ■ ■■ ■ We will have 20 barrels more of / those fancy Jersey sweet potatoes on saje this week at 3c a pound. JOHN EGER.