PREVIOUS FATALITIES.
. The dangers which attend the new'sport of aviation may bo judged from tho following list of airmen who have lost their lives, m pursuit of it: — • Lilienthal, a German, the pioneer of the. gliding machine, killed 1896' Percy S. Pilcher, a young English ■, engineer, who carried out many . V experiments, killed 189 D Lieutenant Selfridgc,.tho first victim of tho motor-driven aeroplane, killed whilst a passoiiger on Orville Wright's machine, at Washington,' September 11 1908 ■Eugene Lefobvre, killed at Juvisy, September 7 1909 Signor E. Rossi, killed at . Rome, . September 7 ...; 1909 Captain Ferber, killed at Boulogne, September 22 1909 Senor Fernandez, killed at Nice, December 0 1909 M. Delagrange, killed at Pau, January i 1910 M. Le Blon,'killed at San Sebastian, • * April 2 1910 M. Micheliiv at Lyons, May 13 ...... 1910 M. Zosily, at Budapest, June 2 1910 Mr. Eugene Speyer, killed at San Francisco, June 17 1910 Herr Robl, at-Stettin, Juno 18 ......... 1910 M. Charles Wachter, killed at Rheims, July i 1310 M. Daniel Kinet,. at: Ghent, July 10 1910 i'Hon. Charles Rolls, at Bournemouth, : July 12 1910 Herr Oscar Erbsloch, at Leichlinger, : ■ Germany, July 13 .. 1910 I'M. Nicholas Kinet, at.Liege, Belgium, August 3 1910 Dr. C. Walden, at Long Island, near . ' Not: York, August 3; 1910. Lieutenant Pasqua,..ltalian Army,- ■ near Rome, on August 20 ....' 1910 M. Van Maasdyk, at Amheim, Hoi- . . land, August 27 .'. 1910 M; Fontenelle;':at Maubeuge, France, September 24 1910 M. Poillot, near Chartres, France, • September 27 1910 M; Plo'chmann, tit Habsheim, Sep-' teniber 28 r . ;.'■■ 1910 ;Herr Haas, at Egel, October 1 1910 Captain Matsievitch, at St... Peters- , burg, October 7 1910 Captain Madiot, at Douai, October 23 1910 Lieutenant Mente, at: Magdeburg, October 25 1910 Fernand Blanchard, at Issy, Oc- . ' tober 2G' 1910 Engineer-Lieutenant Giuseppe Sags- • lietto, at Centoselle, near. Rome, • . October 27 t .'. 1?1(? Mr. Ralph Johnstone, at Denver, November 17 .' ; 1910 •Signors Cammarota and Cantellance, .at Antovalli, in Switzerland, December 4 1910 Mr. ■ Cecil Grace, . in tho English " ChanrieljJDecember 21 1910
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1012, 30 December 1910, Page 5
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