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Show BURNED TO DEATH IN AIRSHIP Aviator Loses Life After Being Forced Into the Air by the Jeers of the Crowd. Dayton, O Forced Into the air by the jeers of thousands who railed him a toward. Frank H. Miller, 23 years old, A Toledo. O.. aviator, shot hito the sky at twilight Friday evening, and when 200 feet up was burned to dealh before the eyes of the spectators spec-tators on the Miami county fa r grounds at Troy, nenr here. Miller had circled the race track and was just starting on a spiral glide into a neighboring cornfield wjjen somethlug went wrong. He could be seen making a frantic Attempt At-tempt to get his machine under control, con-trol, when suddenly the whirring of the propellers ceased. The craft then dropped like a ahot for fifty feet, a tiny blue flame was emitting from the engine, and In an Instant the gasoline gas-oline tank exploded. The machine was wrecked, debris wan hurled hundreds of feet. ThM aeroplane and its driver were burned almost to a crisp as the dropped rapidly to earth. I |