Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 100, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1918 — 3 FLYERS FALL TO DEATH [ARTICLE]

3 FLYERS FALL TO DEATH

Two Officers Die at Ellington Field in Texas—Cadet Killed. Houston, Tex., March 15.—Lieuts. Mnrmnduke Earle of Lewisburg, Pn., nnd Nile Gelwlck of Findlay, 0., were killed at Ellington field and Civilian Instructor Kaiser was seriously injured internally by fulls In airplanes resulting from tail-spins. Earle met death and Kaiser was injured in the (laytime. Lieutenant Gelwlck was killed at eight o’clock last night. His was (lie first death at Ellington field Since ■ night flying was undertaken there. Snn Antonio, Tex., March 15.—The accidental death of Cudet Flyer Howard W. Holaday, twenty-four years old, of Denver, Colo., whose body was found 15 miles east of San Antonio, was the fourth flying fatality at training fields here in six days, and was the second to occur on the 13th of the o month. When an airplane he was attempting to start at Kelly field No. 2 suddenly lurched forward, Corp. Cyril J. Favreau, twenty-nine, of Indian Orchard, Mass., was caught in the whirling propeller blades and the lower half of iis face torn away. He will live. The economical way to buy correspondence stationery is in pound boxes or bulk quantities. The Democrat handles several different styles and qualities of such papers, with envelopes to match, in Its fancy stationery department.

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