AERIAL DISASTERS
SIX PERSONS KILLED
(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright).
(Received this day at 9.25 a.m.) } , NEW YORK, September 16.
A message from St. Catherine’s, Ontario, states six persons (a woman, a child, and four men) were killed w’hen sight-seeing aeroplanes crashed near there to-night.
FIFTEEN KILLED ON SATURDAY VANCOUVER, September 16.
Altogether fifteen were killed in aeroplane accidents on Saturday afternoon. At St. Catherine’s, Ontario, the disaster is already cabled. At Chicago, Waiter Mayers and Jack Crone left a private airfield with two planes, Mayers with one woman passenger and Crone with two joyriding. , At an altitude of one thousand feet they collided, all five being killed. At San Francisco, two friends flying in a hired ’plane fell into a residence. They were burned in a fire which consumed the ’plane and the house.
At Wichita, Kansas, Helen Williams, a stenographer, fell 2,000 feet -before a great airport crowd. She leaped from the ’plane to demonstrate the' safety of a special parachute which failed to open.
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Hokitika Guardian, 16 September 1929, Page 5
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