Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-09-28 | Page 4 | Aviators Killed on Texas Field

AVIATORS KILLED-ON KILLED-ON TEXAS FIELD Another Injured and Two Airplanes Wrecked by Gusts of Wind. FORT WORTH, Texas. Sept. 27. Sec-or?d Sec-or?d Lieutenants George V. Killorin, Jr., of Wakefield. Mass., aged :2, and Herbert Huek of Wadesvllle, Ind., aged 24, were killed this afternoon when their plane fell near Taliaferro field. Both men were attached at-tached to the school of aerial gunnery. Lieutenant Killorin was the son of a prominent contractor living at 72 West Chestnut street. Wakefield, Mass. BRENHAM, Texas, Sept. 27. Lieutenant Lieuten-ant F. N. Carlson of Loda, 111., was seriously seri-ously injured and two airplanes of a squadron of eight machines from Ellington Elling-ton field, Houston, were badly damaged and one virtually demolished at Phillips-bur, Phillips-bur, six miles south of Brenham. at noon today. The accidents were due to squally weather, which forced the machines Into fences when they alighted. SACRAMENTO. Cal.. Sept. 27. Second Lieutenant Arthur J. Thigpen. who was killed yesterday by the fall of an army airplane near Ma'ther field, resided in Auburn. Ala., it was announced today. His wife is 111 in a hospital here. ' Second Lieutenant John A. Booker of Hampton. Ya.. who w-as also In the alr-nlane. alr-nlane. was slightly injured, but was expected ex-pected to recover.