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Show AIRSHIPS FALL; TWO ARE KILLED FLYER MEETS DEATH IN FLAMES WHEN PLANE CRASHES, PASSENGER PASS-ENGER ESCAPES International Air Races At Mitchell Flying Field Is Scene of Death When Airplane Falls To . Earth Chanute Field, Rantoul, 111., First Lieutenant William L. Wheeler, 34, an officer of the air service at Canute field, was burned to death when the airplane which he was piloting burst into flames twenty-five feet in the air crashed to the ground a mass of fire. Cecil S. Burger, private first class, his passenger, leaped to the ground, alighting on his face, but sustained only minor injuries.. Mitchell Field, L. I. One aviator was killed and a second seriously injured in-jured in a crash during the first event of the International air races held here. Two men Clarence D. Chamberlain, Chamber-lain, a pilot and Lawrence Bumaelli, a passenger were in the machine when it crashed several miles ,away from the judges stand. Buranelli died in the wreckage of the machine a few minutes after' the crash. Chamberlain was brought to the Mitchell field post hospital and was immediately placed upon the operation oper-ation table. His right leg was fractured, frac-tured, his scalp deeply lacerated and he had sustained concussion of the brain. J Major. I. B. Marsh, flight surgeon in charge, said be probably would recover. The machine crashed so far from the field that the accident was not witnessed by spectators and it was first reported by telephone. Buranelli's two brothers were present for the race. One, Vincent, is the designer of the plane in which the two men were flying. The other, Prosper, is a feature writer for a New York newspaper. Lawrence Buranelli is an inspector of airplanes. Chamberlain is the owner of an airplane service with headquarters in Hasbrouch Heights. He has been frequently employed by New York newspapers. He is considered a professional aviator of skill. Chamberlain and Buranelli took off with five other machines and were to fly twenty laps around a five-mile course, marked by three pylons, one on Mitchel field, another at Meadow-brook Meadow-brook and the third two miles south of Meadowbrook. They were at an altitude of about 400 feet when the plane, from a cause not at first determined, plunged to the earth. The Bellanca CE-2 was a monoplane mono-plane of peculiar construction. Its wings were supported by struts which joined them at the top and ran upward up-ward to a framework surmounted on the fuselage. |