Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1918 — FOUR FLYERS DIE IN U. S. [ARTICLE]

FOUR FLYERS DIE IN U. S.

Lieutenant Killed at Montgomery, Ala.— Two Lose Lives When Planes Collide in the Air. Montgomery, Ala., June 21. —Second Lieut. Halbert Clark of Washington, D. C., was killed and Cadet Aviator Milton Kenard Erdman of Baltimore was painfully injured near Taylor field by the fall of an airplane in which they were flying at a height of 800 feet. Aberdeen, Miss., June 21. —Lieut. Leo M. Hines of Eilenwood, Kan., and Lieut. Francis hL Roberts of. Watertown, N. Y., are dead, and Lieut. Robert G. Moore of Elmwood Place, 0., may die as the result of an airplane collision at an altitude of 1,700 feet near Payne field. Memphis, Tenn., June 21.- —Losing control of his airplane,, Cadet Flyer H. W. McClannahan of Lewisburg, Tenn., fell several hundred feet at Park field, Millington, Tenn., and was killed.