Show I NY P PlAN LilE I CRASHES CRA H I L IN S L L. L E. E Whitmore Banker I of Price Is Seriously Hurt When Ship Bits lits I Live Electric Wire APTER tAFTER tl thrilling lili r jo from Price to Salt Lake Lakeover Lakeover Lakeover over the Wasatch mountains at atthe atthe atthe the rate of miles an ho hour r in one of the smallest monoplanes yet made L. L E. E Whitmore of ot Price I Utah riding with Pilot McBeth formerly formerly formerly for for- merly a Payson High school athlete crashed at the local air mail mall landing field at 1 30 o'clock today Whitmore sustained a bad puncture of the chin and a badly sprained back buck but his injuries are aro in no way considered fatal l I McBeth Beth escaped I without Injury i MANY SEE ACCIDENT The h heralded arrival of the diminutive diminutive diminutive tive plane brought a considerable group of spectators to the field They watched the plane descend from the upper altitudes after it crossed the mountains and circle twice rapidly around the field as us McBeth a newcomer newcomer new new- comer corner sought the l landing As he came near the the ground ground McBeth McBeth Mc Mc- Beth encountered a line of high tension wires but noticed them in time to zoom over them only only- to crash direct direct- directly ly ii into another line on the other side net near the west side o of the field ON LIVE WIRES For a moment th the machine h hung ng suspended In the powerful voltage wires while whilo great blue sparks flew forth forth lIl and the ship seemed to be en enI enveloped en- en I I in flames Then with a crash the whole thing fell tell to the ground I Pilot McBeth's cBeth's sister who wh had cometo cometo come conic to await his arrival broke brol e into hysterical hys hys- I screams screams screams' until she saw her herI brother emerge merge from the wreck un un- un I injured Spectators running ti 10 Ld the plane piano I dragged Whitmore re forth bleeding andall and andall andall all but unconscious The plane was wasa a total wreck Whitmore was hurried to the hospital where It was was was' found that his injuries although serious could not be considered fatal SAW THE TI-fE WIRES I saw the second line Une of wires said Whitmore although McBeth could not I braced myself for lor the shock and nd that is probably what I saved my life I I Tire The tr trip of miles from Price I was marie made in minutes The hew I monoplane was made in iii Lincoln Neb from whence McBeth h had d brought It Iton iton I I on his way t If the coa coast t. t I |