Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-10-21 | Page 37 | [Illegible] Officer Dies in Crash

AnD 1 IN CHA CRASH OlT Oct 20 2 AP Al' Al Lieu l Edward dward C C. C Snell Michigan tonal lonal n l guard officer who a a. few ha m ago alo leaped from an on an upper l h Leviathan fn in New York b r at at th tho dare daro of ot a tg 1900 1000 feet to his death In iii an to ane Jere tere e late today tod y when he heUs d to Us use a Parachute strapped lack Bellow I ellow low officer Major FloYd E. E pilot escaped death by br plug from from the falling plane accident oc occurred in the out- out hIe ts ti of f Detroit while the tho two me men mene e 3 lying here from Ann Arbor h. h lT In ln Ina a a. a national guard plane q wording to Major Evans they e flying at an altitude of about I feet when the right wing ot of Piano plane suddenly collapsed As plane pane started to fall Major MaJol MaJolI I ns S shouted to Snell Snob to jump and ald self lf prepared to leap Both had hadI flutes f-flutes utes strapped stra ped to their backs I 9 apparently excited ld baek an and ken with fear did not move his seat and Evans E after n Warning him to jump leaped arety his leis parachute opening In jt Ito to prevent him from being red red l tells lella body was war found In the Rage kage of th tho plane tenant Snell was a son of ot the I w Snell former state tor tor and wealthy Detroit dairy dairy- I