Richfield Reaper | 1938-10-06 | Page 1 | Three Men Escape Death in Airplane Accident

three men escape death in airplane accident three men narrowly escape escaped death friday afternoon when their airplane nosed over in a patch of weeds during a takeoff at the richfield airport the men escaped from toe the overturned airplane just as the first of two gasoline tanks exploded and set fire to the ship occupants of the plane were newton H crumley of elko nevada pilot al 0 bell of richfield and garrett backley of stockton california who had come to richfield on a business trip shortly before noon and were leaving for elko when the accident occurred dr R S bell and C R card wit witnessed hessed the accident the plane was a wasp wi with th a horsepower motor