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Show BRILLIANT AVIATOR KILLED. Ralph Johnstone Falls Five Hundred Feet In Exhibition Flight at Denver. Denver. Ralph Johnstone, the brll-lant brll-lant young aviator, holder of the world's altitude record, dropped llko a plummet from a height of 500 feet Into tho inclosure at Overland Park aviation field on Thursday, when ono wing of his machine crumpled up, and was instantly killed. Every bono in his body was broken. When tho accident happened. Johnstone John-stone clung' to his machine and desperately des-perately tried to right It, nut to no avail. Scarcely had ho hit the ground when morbid and sensation-mad spectators, both men and women, swarmed over the wreckage, fighting with one another an-other for souvenirs of the terrible 6c-caslon. 6c-caslon. Even portions of the dead man's clothing were carried away. |