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Show PLAT2E VIGTI.Vi j ITJ FATAL Fi'.LL AT OHIO FIELD Military Flier Make Un successful Attempt to -i Save Self by Use of Fara- chute. Which Tang!ed COLLAPSING WING BLAMED FOR MISHAP : Persons at McCook FielJ See 1 Flight Surgeon in Fokker Make Deaperate Attempt to Escape Death PATTON, O.. Bopt. II. Major K. L. Kapler, right surgeon at McCook Mc-Cook field, was Instantly killed today to-day when the Fokker plan he was driving- fel! to earth. The fall was witnessed by number of persons at the field, who said the right wing of the plane crumpled In tha air. After tha wing broke, the slilp, a single eeater Fokker, turned ovr In a barrel roll. Major Napier attempts at-tempts io use hie pnrarhute, hut the fast turning, of the ship precluded pre-cluded a Jump. He fell at MrCnnir field. SO yards from the main office, miteMs the ship, with the parai-hute opened, but tangled up with the plane. STUDENT "dITs GIRL INJURED. LINCOLN. Neb., Popt. 15. furl J. Hprlnger of Fremont. Nt-i, brother of a Chtrajro Y. M. C A. eecreiary, I da1 un1 Mi V lie Bormun. Jl, of Fi-emont. U aufiT-Ing aufiT-Ing from a fracturi tki the result of an suinmohi . r, .'-nt near Lincoln At 1 fri' M thM;uin-tna. thM;uin-tna. Springer died aim ii -tm'tiv, when the car, di ivm I y l-.tn e. Cira niter, overt nrre-l as It r'tmril a rornT on the re'l. irngT and lta Helen tott of Ihiuk W vo , who were rifling In t'e fiont maI With nun wer rut erloiiniy Injured. In-jured. The acci'ifiit tin fi a' a poinl hr " r -1 v t - tfiaded. It'Mirvlmff tin enner, rar went Into tn diith. turned or ! and pinned Mim 1 Wr man a nl 1 Hprlnger under It. The machine cauichi fire while (he vlrtlma were undei neath. Miaa Btott ran to a nearby farm Jiouee. aumnioned aid and fnrmers got the two from under un-der the car, whlrh waa burned. tfprtnger and Miaa Herman wers umwiiwlnui when rescued. They were ruahed to s Lincoln hospital by farmers but Hpringer waa dead when they reached the hospital. Hprlnger and alieaea Borman and fftott were Nebraeka university students, Bprlnger a senior. |