Duchesne Record | 1910-11-25 | Page 6 | Briliant Aviator Killed

BRILLIANT AVIATOR KILLED Ralph Johnstone Falls Fal s Five Hundred Feet in Exhibition Flight at Denver Denver Ralph Ralph Johnstone the lant young aviator holder of the worlds world's altitude re record ord dro dropped ped like a plu plummet from a height of feet into the at Overland Park aviation field d on Thursday when one wing of his machine crumpled crumpl d up and was instantly killed Every bone in his body was broken When the accident happened Johnstone Johnstone John John- stone clung dung to his ma machine hine and desp desperately desperately des des- p tried to right It but Jut to no avail Scarcely had bad he hit the ground when morbid and mad mad n-mad spectators both men and women swarmed over the wreckage fighting with with one one another another another an an- other for souvenirs o of the terrible oc oc- oc- oc caslon casion Even portions of of the deadmans deadman's dead deadman's deadmans mans man's clothing were carried away