Show LIEUTENANT ROCKWELL WAND AND CORPORAL SCOTT SCOn ARMY AVIATORS FALL FAIt TO DEATH B By International Newa Service VIce V WASHINGTON Sept 30 Striking Striking tho around with terrific force when the gui guiding n re ropo o of their aeroplane refused to wor work Corporal Frank S. S Scott formerly formerly for for- merly of Ridgway Pa was instant instantly killed late lato Saturday and L. L C. C Rockwell who was waa in in charge of the Wright ht flyer so eo badly injured that he be died two hours ours later The accident occurred occurred oc oc- oc at the army aviation grounds of the College park twelve miles from fromI I Washington Corporal Scott was a a. passenger r inthe in inthe inthe the aeroplane The machine was totally totally totally to to- tally demolished Rockwell together to other with the tb-e body of Corporal Scott Scot was WIlS rushed to the tho Walter WaIter Reed hospital in inthe inthe the automobile of the school At the hospital itAl it was was found that Lieutenant Rockwell had bad sustained sustain cd double fractures fractures frac frac- tures of each leg leAr fractures of the and internal injuries from which he never nover recovered Making Test Fight Lieutenant Rockwell who had bad previously pre made one short flight ht was attempting attempting at tempting to moot meet one ono of t the tho o tests required ro- ro bv v the tho government before before- re- re his bis license as a a. military avi Ti ator The requirement rr was as that ho he should ri rise foot in is tho the air carrying one ono passenger and land within feet foot of a given point Rising in the tho air Lieutenant Rockwell and Corporal Scott waved to the tho assembled officers of the tho school shortly before they started their descent As the they came toward the earth the machine seemed to bo ho working perfectly perfectly per per- but just landing Lieutenant Lieutenant Lieu Lieu- ton tenant ant Rockwell was seen to attempt to Ii guide his hiR plane to a moro more gradual in in- cline The planes refused to work anc and Lieutenant Rockwell forgetting for to shut shutoff shutoff i off his en engines hit tho the ground at a speed of about miles mileS' an hour Both Doth men were wore thrown from tho the shattered chattered wreck of ot the tho aeroplane and lay still as M Captain F. F DeForest Chandler Chandler Chandlor Chand Chand- ler lor head bead of tho the school chool rushed to the scone Narrow Escape Before I Lieutenant Rockwell was flying the tho typo D aeroplane with which he narrowly narrowly narrowly nar nar- escaped instant death at the hydro-aeroplane hydro school not Quito quite two weeks a ago o. o The Tho same machine was used this morning shortly after daybreak daybreak daybreak day day- break bv by Lieutenant DoWitt DeWitt Milling who took as as' as his passenger Frederick Frederic Hennessy whom ho bo was instructing inthe inthe in inthe the operation of a Wright aero At that timo time the tho machine worked per per- This is the tho fifth accident that has bas occurred since aeronautics were introduced introduced intro intro- into the army and is the tho second to have bavo occurred at College Colle go o park within tho the l 1 last st three months Lieutenant B. B H. H and Charley Welch a professional Wright Wrig-bt aviator boin being killed outright t when a win wing wine crumpled crumple under the strain of a a. spiral glide Agitation has bas recent recently been l begun by bythe bythe bythe the officers of tho the aviation squadron of the tho army corps to secure increased pay and bi high h rank because of the danger to which they are arc daily subjected It has bas been confidently stated that the next session of congress con would double their pay Officers of oi tho aviation squadron are forced to cancel their life and accident insurance with all aU tho the tholar large lar insurance companies when they the tako take up the science of flying Describes Accident Captain Chandler in describing tho the accident said There is not much to tell teU because tho the thing came so suddenly Lieuten Lieuten- Lieutenant ant Rockwell had been coming down from a a. very safe incline and we were expecting that he be would shut off hi hien en engines which had bad already been slowed down Suddenly ho be increased his speed to the tho on engines engines' cines limit I am sure suro he must have bave intended to io rise riso again ain into the air Instead the tail flow flew into the theair theair theair air and be he struck the ground almost on one end Both men were thrown from the machine and buried beneath the debris Scott was one of the finest of our troops stationed hero here He had ever Increased In In- crea creased ed the tho interest in aviation Lieutenant Lieutenant Lieu Lieu- tenant Rockwell reported to the school on July 6 He Ho quickly attracted attention attention attention at at- by bv the ease case with which ho he handled machines On AU August lt 10 hewon he hewon hewon I won his bis pilots pilot's license and had bad always been anxious to pass ass the military aviators aviator's avia aVla tors tor's test which has bas as cost him his bis life |