Show 1 0 MEET DEATH IN AIR TRAGEDY Passenger Plane Hits Tower in Fog Explodes and Falls in Flam Flames s By Dr United Pre Press Belgium Dec 30 30 A imperial airways passenger passenger pas pas- plane flying low through heavy fog crashed into a wireless tower today and in the tho ensuing explosion ex cx- and fl flames 10 persons one possibly an American lost their lives The plane named Apollo had left Brussels bound for London with witha a passenger list of eight and was due at Croydon field at p. p m. m Flying extremely low over it emerged suddenly from a heavy helvy bank of mist mit and fog and before before be be- fore lore the eyes of horrified witnesses crashed headon into a high wireless tower Plane Dane Falls Fails In Flames The Apollos Apollo's collapse was It fell to the ground in explosive ex cx- plosive flames and in the furnace it made there was no chance for tor survivaL survivaL sur sur- vivaL All but one of the 10 bodies ing ng those of the pilot listed as J. J Gittins Git Git- tins Ins and his mechanic were burned to o cinders Five of the wrel wireless sta sin tion ion rushed from their shelter and md attempted to reach the burning pas pas- Some of them thorn suffered from burns on faces and hands and one was taken to the hospital badly burned They They Had Had No Chance There was not a chance for tor or any of the thc passengers eyewitnesses de do dared Although every en of the wireless station did his utmost to rescue them the whole machine w was reduced to a mass of white-hot white wreckage wreckage wreck wreck- age within a few moments The bodies had to be left in the debris LIt It was vas horrible one of 01 the wireless wire wire- less ess operators said The force of the planes plane's collision was wa-s so great that the he entire top of the wireless mast was vas sheared heared off oft A passenger l listed ted under the name Young who booked his seat scat eat from Crom rom Cologne to Croydon Is thought to o have been an ln American but confirmation con con- was lacking |