Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 February 1918 — SPEEDING PLANES COLLIDE; TWO FLIERS PERISH [ARTICLE]

SPEEDING PLANES COLLIDE; TWO FLIERS PERISH

Edwin D. James, of Toledo, 0., and Carl S. Mather of Pawpaw, Mich., second lieutenants of the first squadron, Ellington Field, were billed Thursday at Houston, Texas, when the airplanes in which they were flying collided head on and fell from a height of 2,000 feet. The machines were locked together when they struck the ground. The bodies of the two men were badly mangled. The machines were traveling at a high rate of speed, according to observers.