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Show IIP STOPS BIPLANEj FLIT Machine Badly Damaged ! in Fall; Pilot and Me-chanician Me-chanician Injured. j TUCSON, Ariz., Nov. 26. The flight of i the Loughead biplane to Washington. ! b. C, was interrupted today following a j fall at Gila Bend, Ariz., in which Pilot j O. S. T. Myerhofer was slightly hurt ! and hj3 mechanician, Leo F. Flint, was ; severely injured. The machine was badly an rnased. Myerhofer's mechanician fs reported. seriously se-riously injured. Mverhofer was painfuliv bruised and a third man in the party, A. P. Bernau, escaped injury. An attempt v. ill be made in the morning to resume the flight. Tiie flight began ac Santa Barbara, Cal., .ast Saturday. The aviators planned to reach Washington with but two slops. They were compelled to land yesterday at Gila Rend because of engine trouble. A crowd assembled today to witness resumption re-sumption of the flight. Pilot Myerhofer and Mechanician Flint were strapped in the front of the machine and Assistant Pilot A. It. Be.rnau was so'ed in the tail, i The machine started nnd ran for about moo yards over the desert at a high rate of speed when the left engine went dead, permitting the left aide of the machine to drop down. The nose of the machine stuck into the ground and was burled. , the plane standing upright with its . tan in the ah-. The proreller and the : entire front of the machine were wrecked. Myerhofer and Flint, strapped In, were unable to escape the burning gasoline that spread over them. Before spectators could render aid, Flint was bfldly burned, about the head. He also suffered con-i : tuslons of the head, but will recover. ; ; Myerhofer was only slightly hurt. Bernau was uninjured. |