Salt Lake Tribune | 1915-08-13 | Page 14 | U. S. Army Aviator is Killed by Fall

U. S. ARMY AVIATOR IS KILLED BY FALL Quartermaster Captain Dies Instantly and Lieutenant Ib Fatally Injured- FORT SILL, Okla., Aug- 12. Quartermaster Quar-termaster Captain George H.. Knox of the First aero aquadron, U. S. A., was killed, and Lieutenant R. 13. Mutton, his aide, probably was fatally injured today to-day when an aeroplane in which they were flying fell 5u0 feet. The (squadron (squad-ron had just been transferred from California, Cal-ifornia, The officers came to Fort Sill last Tuesday, and since then had been conducting con-ducting experiments on the army reservation. reser-vation. Upon tho arrival of the aerial squadron several members snid they considered the various currents of air existing in and near the Wichita mountains moun-tains here extremely dungorous. The aviators had been aloft but a few minutes this morn in g when tho aeroplane suddenly was observed to be falling. Captain Knox aud his aide made desperate efforts to control the machine. Knox was It i lied instantly. Sutton was hurrif.d to the army hospital, hospi-tal, where an operation was performed in an effort to nave his life. The exact, cause of the accident has not been a certatned. PORTLAND. Ore., Aug. Ml. -Lieutenant R. B. Hut ton was appointed to West Point from Portland and is the son of J. X. Suttou, Kant Bidn agent here for the Southern Pacific iiailroad company. He is 'Jo years old and wns born at Redondo. Cut. Lieutenant Hut ton graduated from West Point in HM.'i and was appointed to the aero squadron at San Diego a year ago. His brother. Lieutenant James Sutton, met death at A nnapolis naval ;i cade my short ly a fter his graduation in 1007j the verdict, of an investigating eomrnium being Mini he was accidental v killed.