Show MAIL T TC C RASHES A H O IN T M 1 Flier Strikes Mou Mountain tain Ledge in Daring Attempt Attempt At At- tempt tempt to Reach Cheyenne Chey- Chey t enne in Snowstorm Wyo Nov 8 s- s x G Blin Blinded e by a raging snowstorm snowstorm snow snow- storm storm an and fl flying ing low Jow over the railroad tracks in ill an au effort to tol Wood Wood- l cp his lis course John P I jd United States air mall pilot lost l hll 8 life Ufe Saturday afternoon when he cJ crashed shed his plane pianO into a mountain ledge ri near r Tb TIc Siding forty miles west of of V Cley Cheyenne and about fifteen miles mites south of S SEEN EEN AT LARAMIE 1 Woodward was en ea route from froni Salt Jako to Cheyenne when he encountered red the storm lIe He was last sighted over ver verie ie at 2 30 30 o'clock Saturday aft af- af t n. n He left Salt Lake at 1130 11 30 a a. m m. Saturday and was scheduled to arrive here on the return trip yesterday afternoon at 3 o'clock A searching party which had bad been dispatched from Laramie found the wrecked plane in a ravine of the mount mountains moun moun- t near the railroad tracks The bady of the pilot was still strapped in inthe inthe the rear cockpit The motor of theDe the tho big bis De Haviland Ha had been driven back- back iV rd by the force of the impact killing the flyer instantly It is believed ACCOMPLISHED FEAT I ec Woodward flew lew through a avy y UM vy snow mist successfully by by- fol- fol tIng lg the railroad tracks It is beed be- be ed he was attempting to perform th same feat Saturday wh when n he mo- mo lost his course and crashed led p. p into a ledge of rock rising sev- sev pI jl 1 hundred d feet in the air near the thet t lad the pilot c cleared ared the bluff buff he uld have had a clear downward Urse rae into Che Cheyenne enne lad Woodward was 26 years old His Hisle le ne e was at Mitchellville Iowa lowa Hes He I s one of the first air mail mall pilots as- as asI I neel to the Salt Lake Lake-Che Lake Cheyenne en di- di I di-I 1 STion ion and was regarded a one of the thet 1 fet t pilots in the service I Ells His liz body was taken to Laramie i |