Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-03-10 | Page 16 | Aviator is Killed in 75-Foot Fall

AVIATOR IS KILLED IN 75-FOOT FALL SAX ANTONIO, Texas. March P. Lieutenant Leslie G. Chandler of Hinsdale, Hins-dale, 111., was killed in an airplane accident ac-cident at Kelly Field, early last night. Cadet Henry K. Huher. in the plane with him, escaped with slight injuries. The airplane iu which Chandler and Iluber were flying 'side slipped' ad crashed seventy-five feet to the ground when the motor stopped. Lieutenant Chandler came to Kelly r'ield from the University of Illinois ground school. He was commissioned last December and had been acting as instructor in the dual flving stage for cadets. Chandler's death is the sixth at Kelly Field since its establishment nearly a year ago. DALLAS, Texas, March P. The death of Lieutenant Chandler, in an airplane accident at San Antonio today makes a total of fifty-five airplane fatalities fa-talities in the Texas camps, according to unofficial records. Fort Worth with the greater number of deaths iu the British ca-mp of the Royal flying corps, has had a total of thirty-six deaths, Houston is second with eight, San An tonio six, Love Field, at Dallas has had three, Wichita Falls, one, and Waco one. Two deaths while flying were reported re-ported from Fort Sill, near Lawton, Okla., March 4, when Lieutenants Fauly and White were killed.