Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1919 — Airplane Crashes Into Bam. [ARTICLE]

Airplane Crashes Into Bam.

Fort Wayne, April 25. —Lieut. Harry J. Runfer and his wife, the former recently discharged from the United States aviation service, had a narrow escape from death when the machine in which they were flying from Toronto, Canada, to Fort Wayne, plunged into a barn north of Defiance, O. The machine was demolished. Lieutenant Runfer was seriously injured. When the plane neared Defiance, the pilot noticed that his gas was running low. In an effort to make a descent for the purpose of replenishing his supply, he lost control of the machine and crashed into a barn. Lieutenant Runfer suffered two fractured ribs. His wife escaped uninjured.