AVIATION FATALITIES.
AMATEUR AVIATOR KILLED. By, Teleeraph—Press Association—Copyright ■ New York, May U. At St. Louis, Missouri, Mr. Ray Wheeler, an amateur aviator, was killed, and Mr. filasson, a companion, fatally injured. Tho aeroplane dashed into telegraph poles and was entangled. The cause of the accident was tho machine becoming unmanageable in a gusty wind. THE BROOKLANDS ACCIDENT. > London, May 14. Mr. Mason, killed at Brooklands, was a wealthy American, and a friend of Ah , . Taft and Jfr. Roosevelt. Messrs. Mason and Fisher's spines were broken. Fisher was seriously injured last October at Brooklands. SEAGULL AND BIPLANE. (Reo. May 15, 11 p.m.) New York, Mny 15. An investigation disclosed tho fact that the accident which caused the death of the aviator Rodgers was duo to the body of a seagull catching the control Tvrre during tho flight and preventing Rod-' gers working the planes.
Mr. Bodgers, who was the first aviator to cross the American Continent, while soaring in a Wright biplane on April i fell two hundred feet and w,as killed instantly.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1441, 16 May 1912, Page 5
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172AVIATION FATALITIES. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1441, 16 May 1912, Page 5
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