Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1910 — WOMAN AVIATOR FALLS [ARTICLE]

WOMAN AVIATOR FALLS

Baroness Delaroche Becomes Confused in Aeroplane. Baronets Delaroche, the first French woman aeropianist, was fatally Injured at Rheims, France, by falling from a distance of fifty meters. The baroness had flown around the field once at a height of eighty meters when suddenly, in front of the applauding tribunes, she appeared to become frightened and confused at the approach of two other aeroplanes. She started to descend, but while ■till far from, the ground lost control of the machine. The aeroplane turned over and fell like a log. The baroness’ legs and arms were broken. Her mangled body was taken from the wreckage and conveyed to a hospital, where she is dying At the hospital it was found that her skull was fractured. While momentarily conscious the baroness explafped that the rush of air from a motor passing over her head had freightened her, whereupon she cut the ignition and lost control of her machine.