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Show TRAGIC END TO AVIATOR . , IN MID-AIR t FUEL TANK EXPLOSION CAUSE OF FATALITY Lieutenant De Grallly the Victim Avlator"Had'Made'"More'Than' Om. HundredSuccessful Flights In the Clouds. ' - -Tro'yesi France, 'Sept."!!.' llefo're" the ' ' ' '-V- eyes of thousantlH of horroi-strlcken spoctatois tolla, Lieutenant De Gfnll- ly, one of v'sbt entjitnts In the aero- plntie nice utnoug.nrui) officers, was burned to death w)ille In uild-iilr, the explosion pt his fuel tank causing the fntallt). Tl)o accident occurred nt Rlguy-t.n-Noiuicuso, u.eiitfvi miles from Troys.i'fho man who tnut death hud madp moro, than 1 09 flights with. out nn acefdent. He w,as, , considered onu ,of the moflt expert, aviators in France. , ,. Tho accident to, Do Grallly had barely bcrin reported to, th otflclatB here, when word came, from .Trpusses-I.e-Noble that Cnptnln Do Cnmlue. nl no. tin)' hero of a hundred flights, had beYn killed by the falling ot his ma-chlno. ma-chlno. Captain De Cumlne, however, was fl)lng in an event distinct from that lp whlci De Grullly lost his, Ufa. The ascent pf the eight, mon In tho event, wilch termlnntet fatally for Do Grallly was, mado , from Troyes. . Tho lieutenant said before jinking, Ills beat In the machine thnt lie- was, going to make a distance flight. In a few tnln-u!3 tnln-u!3 he had risen to a height of 1,000 fccLuni) w;ns,heen to veqr to, U"' south' we,t. When above llgny, tweuty-flvo mllps, from (iei;e, thottn who wore wntchng tlia flight, oflvDo,OnIUy wqte hoirlfledito see the machine enveloped envel-oped In flame. A few Becouil1), , after tle sight of the, flame there, enmo a report,, thnt was likened to the burst-lug burst-lug of a bomb and tho spectators ro-allied ro-allied (hnt the burst of flnnm probt ably had been the explosion pf the, fuel t:mlc of tho machine that a minute before;, be-fore;, had b?eu soaring gracefully abovo them, , Downward Sweep Fans Blaze. Vith the speed of an express train, but guided by the forward planes, the hqrrlf led, spectators saw tho aeroplane cpmlnp ,cartjtwaid, with Jho man who hqd to( fho steering genr a i)assr of flames. .mi . The planes were burning and ri flc speed of tho dost Ward swe jn-tied jn-tied the blaze. was all ovefjn u ffttlonjr, than n .minute.. Thfi,,p)apo .cptlnp. ,jts coiirsq until thoitcanvas- Inn. i)jeen burned. 'Its very heat In tho 'almoin phbro1 fhr 'tho fraction'')f a'seibiiil'Hrid the tendency (o biroy" It1 'up,'"tl!oii, when half-way, (o t)tq ground, wltte, little less .than the framnjloft, tho law of'iRntvltntion, whloh had bemuover cdihd, dliilmed W for Its oW It 'drdfV' ped shoar to tho ground. Persons who rnn to the wreck rdtMiTElf utcnant Dor Oratllrdoad-and Kilrie(Ji'Thehaiidsi'lh;(l'hftd!gfpp6d tho steering wheel woro chnrrod upou the liacks, while thfM"j)alms showed Jtliat to tras" hojjJi'tuT tried fotputf tisojhlsMtnow'ledo of.avlatlon ajid-steer ajid-steer his machine to'lhn ground Tho accident thuL.casLa.glooiu.over jUifiofflcerfiM.aiid men of tho Klghth curasslersf wqs jfolTosvelj, by another, iif which Captain Ilo'Camine, coffsld-.erfiiL.oao.oL.Uiii.avIiitoraufflrat.rank. coffsld-.erfiiL.oao.oL.Uiii.avIiitoraufflrat.rank. In the French service, lost his life. His .machine fell for spno unaccount--able reason," killing him 'instantly. Captain Do Canilne hnd taken" part In all the aeVoplane'" maneuvers and was virtually nn Instructor of officers ' , 1 , ..I In this -branch of the service |