Show AIME FILLS THREE ME DEAD FORMER AIR MAIL HEAD AND passengers KILLED IN CRASH NEAR SALT LAKE CITY machine la Is total wreck heavy west wind Is probable cause of machine going into dizzy tailspin salt lake city arlen claron nelson 30 years yeara ot of age former superintendent in of the western division of tile the air mall mail service and a world war aviator and two passengers grant christensen Chrls 15 1 north west temple street and russell do de logo loge 15 north west temple street wore were killed may shortly after 1 when the unger aircraft company plane piloted by nelson crashed near the woodward aviation field the standard jl J l 1 plane in which the boys were carried without charge by nelson took ott off in the face of a strong west veat wind A quarter of a mile from the hangar the plane side slipped went into a tailspin and crashed nose downward from an altitude of feet to a flaming destruction just south of the sa atair speedway W a tile the plane burst into flames and tile the unconscious pilot picot and boy passengers were so badly burned that identification of the charred bodies was difficult the pos position itlo of nelsons belsons Nel sons body showed that ho he had made a heroic effort to right the plane efforts were male by Ner kenneth ineth R unger william F erickson william maxfield and 11 II G darko air mall mail mechanics and carl helberg elberg li to rescue nelson and the two boys nelson was first taken from the blazing ruins and the bodies of tile the two boys were recovered just before tile the auxiliary gas as tank exploded with a force that sent a blast of lames flames from thirty to forty feet the rescuers endangered their lives in butil but heroic efforts to extricate the bodies from froin the gasoline ignited in ferno nelson and the two passengers died from ijuan s but all three were unconscious after the plane struck the ground examination by dr DD rr john J galligan attending surgeon lit a t the emergency hospital showed 4 that the skulls of both boys were fractured and that nelson net on sit suffered f f r d a 1 concussion of the lie brain and possible internal injuries death Is believed to have come quickly to the boys nelson died in about twenty a without regaining consciousness the standard jl J l 1 plane mado made by the standard aircraft corporation and equipped with a KC K C 6 curtiss motor had not been in tho the air more than five hours mr unger owner 0 of tho the plane piano said mr nelson was not employed by tho the unger aircraft con company 1 ile HB was an experienced aviator and on oil saturday lad had taken a flight in the plane with mr air unger the two boys had long wanted to take an airplane ride and had walked to the aviation field after waiting around tor for a halt an hour the two youngsters who lind had been befriended by mr air nelson in the past readily accepted the kindly offer of claron to take a ride A quarter of a mile had been covered d when a strong gust of wind caught the plane turning to the southwest A sideslip side slip followed tho the plane went into a tailspin tall spin revolved but once and crashed nose downward tor for feet |