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Show SOLDIER IS KILLED BY FLYING BULLETS NEW YORK, Oct. 14. Bullets from a machine sun, presumed to have been inadvertently in-advertently fired from an army airplane in flight, killed ono soldier and wounded three others as the men were drilling in formation today at Camp Mills, Long Island. William II. Hall, private, Mclxransboro, 111., died from a wound in the head. Samuel M. Lowry, lieutenant, Summit, Pa., was shot in the arm. William H. Bivens, private, Avon, '111., was shot In the back. Lewis J. Simmons, private, Danville, 111., was wounded by a bullet. The army and aviation authorities had not succeeded ,atB toc,ay in identifying the airplane. Obeservers reported seems? an airplne in tho neighborhood flying verv high and which had come from. the ocean side of the island It was the theory of the aviation officers that the ihpl'ine while engaged in target practice prac-tice suddenly dropped, thus unintentionally' unintention-ally' directing a stream of bullets earthward. |