Show I I B RUNS AEROPLANE IE INTO GRAND GRANO STAND STANO IN ENDEAVOR TO AVOID COLLISION COLLISION COLLIS COLLIS- ION WITH MAN AVIATOR KILLS ONE AND INJURES SEVERAL Machine 1St Struck ruck Tier of Boxes In Front of Grand Stand and Fell Upon Heads of People One Mans Man's Face Being Cut Off by Propeller Seattle Wash While Aviator Cliff Turpin in a Wright aeroplane was wassailing wassailing I sailing salling down the field at The Meadows Meadows Mead Mead- I own at a sl speed ced of fifty an hour I Ion on Thursday an unknown man rushed across tho the track and would have been beheaded by the machine but for the quick action of the tho aviator who turned turned turn turn- ed eI upward and toward the grand grandstand stand which was crowded with people I It seemed to the occupants of the thc stand that Turpin's aeroplane would dash among them but he checked its speed and lowered 10 its direction so that the machine struck the tier of boxes In front of the stand Person Persons in one of f the boxes were hurt and the aeroplane aeroplane aero aero- plane its power shut off and and its momentum momentum momentum mo mo- cut short by the collision with the stand fell upon the heads of the crowd of people standing in front of the grand stand and overlooking the old race track track where the ascent was was ws being attempted George Quinby aged 25 died soon after his removal to a hospital Identification was almost Impossible impossible impossible sible as his entire face had been cut cutoff cutoff off orr by the propeller of the aeroplane and it was not until a friend recognized recognized recognized a ring and the laundry marks on his clothing that his name was known Quinby was a wireless operator and and had ud Just returned from Alaska on the steamship Bertha on which he served for one round trip |