Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 82, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1912 — Coast to Coast Aviator Killed By Fall at Long Beach, Cal. [ARTICLE]

Coast to Coast Aviator Killed By Fall at Long Beach, Cal.

Galbraith P. Rogers, the first man to fly in an aeroplane from coast to coast in the United States, met almost instant death Wednesday at Long Beach, Cal., where he had been giving daily flights. He was soaring over the ocean in the view of a vast crowd, when his biplane fell. He was about 260 feet in the air and was buried in the 'surf beneath his machine.