| Show AIRLINER 1 Plane Smashes Into Hill Near N ear t Cheyenne 9 Passengers Crew I Of 3 Die Wreck Spread Half Mile MileA y Sid l rr v i. i 1 1 Yr f j X y r v vi i y y r r f Y x a f r r S r y o n e C 6 i r J F a i LA r. r x nr f t 1 f R w ca d t dt 2 i i r fc a. a 1 w G i ia a y r r. r t j i r yr a s v C y y J f V A United Airlines luxury airliner of one shown in the above photo crashed near near Cheyenne Wyo early Monday morning killing 12 persons Below Belo is Halson Balson A. A Collison pilot o of the the ill-fated ill plane Cause of Crash Remains Mystery Weather Ideal and Pilot Noted For I SAN AN FRANCISCO Oct 7 AP AP Unite United Airlines officials announced today the Walter Walt r B. B Crandall who was wasa a victim of the trans transport transport P ort crash near Cheyenne early today was vas Robert H. H Re Rene Rene- e- e home borne 28 said hy by Inspector George Curtis to be he a fugitive from froin San Francisco police on bad check charges j J By Associated Press CHEYENNE Wyo Oct 7 7 Twelve Twelve persons persons- nine line passengers and a crew of three were three were crushed to 10 death early today as an Oakland New Oakland to New York United Airlines transport plane crashed on a a. a knoll on the rolling plains a a scant 15 miles west of f here The veteran pilot H. H A. A No Collision Collison apparently had started down clown from high altitudes in ideal weather tb r with his twin motored liner preparatory preparatory preparatory tory to a scheduled stop here when he lie struck the top lop to j of one hill lost his Ids propeller and plummeted against another hillside The plane smashed into the ground about out 2 1 a. a m m. mountain standard time It was torn and twisted twist v sted st- st ed but did not catch fire After a regular stop at Salt Lake City just b before fore midnight the cross-country cross liner had reported its progress by radio and asked ground round w wind ind inI just five minutes' minutes flying time west of Cheyenne Copilot George Batty and Stewardess Leona Mason Ma 1 Mason son were vere the fife other members of the crew on the U United Jed Airlines plane The p plane ne which carried mail as well as pass n Continued on Pace Pare Two 12 lUlled Killed lI When 8 Salt Lake ke Plane Falls Falls' in Wyoming y Y cc CI Continued from Pace One g gers rs was vas vas d title due e in ill Cheyenne en at 2 19 a. a m. m mountain ll standard t time luc 4 Five Fire minutes before he be was vas due clue to land Collison inquired inquire of of the airdrome here for ground wind in- in formation The Th plane apparently y struck the top lop of of one lull hill lost ost its propeller anti and engine and then b hO bounced u t ic ced d nose the of another hill hilI said Bill Bin H Hare Hoare first against top ar of United Airlines We have been unable to determine the exact cause of the accident Tb The weather was excellent and andt it t appear appeared d Collison had haa good flying speed When Collison did not land after 15 minutes we sent other planes out to o try to io locate locale him said bare loare They flew until dawn before the wreckage was sighted near the brow of a n hill just least east a t of the Silver CroWn roWn radio beacon NOTED FOR CARE Collison a former army a airmail an and a n mail fl flier fler er since ince 1921 won his sobriquet i for careful piloting He hell held many speed records of the early days of mail lying flying having participated in ill the flight of or half a ton tonof tonof tonof of mail from San Francisco to Chicago with four other pilots in 13 hours und and 38 minutes maintaining an average speed of miles an hour Over a roughly made trail by hy auto aulo and motorcycle motorcycle motorcycle motor motor- cycle Coroner Paul Worland rind and nd OO soldiers front from Fort Warren Wyo were vele dispatched to the time s scene ene Q of the disaster Be Before prying apart the wreckage of the giant silve hued silver hued airliner a representative of the depart lepart department ment of commerce stationed at the Cheyenne airdrome air air air- drome was hastily summoned The Thc soldiers f formed a tight circle about the debris NEAR SMALL STATION Time The nearest habitation to th the scene is a pumping station tation for the thc city cily of Cheyenne where e perhaps halfa half a i dozen persons live The airliner left Oakland Cal last night at 6 25 p. p m. m I Pacific standard time and was due to 10 arrive in iii 11 New York at 2 15 p. p m. m eastern standard time thue Pilot Robert Ferguson of ot the time U. U A. A L. L searching searching search- search ing ng fleet operating from Cheyenne was first to locate the he plane About 5 45 s A m m. mountain standard time lime Ferguson Jerguson sighted the wreckage from the airA airA air A dark mass of or debris was about all I could see said aid Ferguson I merely circled the time scene and nd re re- turned here P. P J. J Anderson of Wyoming Air service assisting assisting assisting assist assist- ing tile the searchers was the second flier over tIle the scene BODIES OUTSIDE OF PLANE It s seem seemed m d to me that hiat several bodies w re I ng outside the thc plane said Anderson on I had to come comedown down own fairly low because from higher altitudes the time wreckage might have been passed for a grazing herd of cattle T. T Joe Joc Cahill Cheyenne police chief whose pic pie career as a Wyoming pioneer has embraced virtually ev every ery type of orland land accident and disaster raced racedo to o time the scene by motor car and und described it in these words It wa was one of oft the most terrible sights you can imagine The Time bodies were like broken boxes The Time airliner had hail skidded several hundred yards along the hillside I Debris made a trail along a ravine at the foot of or the knoll The ship itself w was s ripped apart There age that the plane had attempted to climb but hut had baa hadeen been een shoved back by striking the hilltop as if ir a giant were vere some indications from the position of the time wreck wreck- laud 1 had pushed it into the ground |
