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Show A5I10NAUI: vIS KILLED! SAN JOSE, Cal., July 18. With women j fainting and men; sobbing. Daniel Ma- j lor.cy, who haas made numerous public I ascensions with ' Prof. Montgomery's j aeroplane, fell 3000 feet- to his death at I Santa Clara this morning. Two thousand people watched the huge machine as it shot up from the college garden attached to a huge balloon. At a height of 4000 feet Maloney cut loose and began maneuvering maneu-vering the aeroplane. Suddenly the ma-' chine swerved, hesitated and turned completely com-pletely over. It righted itself, sank down a considerable distance and turned over again. ... Maloney was clinging desperately to hla seat and evidently endeavoring to regain hla control, but all hla effort were in vain. Again the aeroplane turned in the air, and thin time the wings came together to-gether and the man and machine plunged straight downward, while the horrified spectators gazed helplessly upward. Ma-loney's Ma-loney's head was fractured and blood was flowing from his ears .and mouth. He expired within - a short time. The aeroplane, which wan constructed of the toughest oak procurable, was ground Into small fragments. x ' - |