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Show BEACHEV FALLS TO HI8 DEATH. Fair Visitors Witness Tragic End of Career of Daring Aviator. San Francisco. Tho spectacular career ca-reer of Lincoln Bonchoy, one of tho most daring of American aviators, was onded Sunday when ho fell to his death at tho Panama-Paclllc exposition exposi-tion in sight of thousands of spectators. specta-tors. Tho fatal fall was attributed to tlio fact that Beachey Intrusted his life for tho first tlmo to a new monoplane. Tho machlno wns at an altitudo of about 3,000 feot when Beachey shut off his powor. For Bovoral seconds it droppod head on for tlio earth and then the aviator grasped his control lover to adjust tho planes for tho graceful descent which had characterized character-ized his provious flights, At that point tho wings crumpled like a collapsed col-lapsed umbrella and the aoroplane, turning ovor nnd over in Its fall, plunged Into San Frnnclsco bay, narrowly nar-rowly missing a vesBol lying at the government transport docks. Beachey's body was recovered about two hours after tho accldont. Divers, searching tho shallow In shoro wators of the bay, founr" tho crushed form of tho airman entangled In tho twisted rods and torn canvr j of tho machine Doctors Lollevo Beachey waut slight ly Injured by tho fall, and was drowned when ho wns pinned underneath under-neath tho wrecked machine. |