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Show IKES ML FLIGHT Lieutenants D. A. Loomis and L. Stamps Burned to Death at Fort Sill. LAWTOX. Okls., Feb. 7 Lieutenant Pudlcv A. Loomis, pilot, and Lieutenant Lieuten-ant Loftin Stamps, observer, were burned to death this afternoon on the post field, Kort Sill, school of aerial observers, ob-servers, when their machine made a ncse dise from a height of 5t)0 feet and burst into flames as it struck the ground. Their bodies were burned beyond be-yond recognition. The engine failed and as the pilot attempted a special landing the machine ma-chine toppled over, dashing to the grouud. The plane was almost completely destroyed de-stroyed by the flames before the bodies of the men could be extricated from the twisted wreckage. Loomis was 22 years old and a native na-tive of Moscow, Idaho, and a student of Idaho. State university. He attended at-tended the training camp at Presidio, Cat. and was commissioned in tho field artillery and later assigned to the aviation avia-tion school at Fort Sill. Stamps enlisted en-listed at Atlanta, Ga., and was 24 vcars old. His wife had just joined him here. It was to have been his last flight, as he had finished his training as an observer when the accident occurred, oc-curred, j |