Show AIRSHIPS FALL ARE KILLED KILlE i FLYER MEETS DEATH IN FLAMES WHEN PLANE CRASHES PASSENGER PASSENGER PASS PASS- ENGER ESCAPES International Air Races At Mitchell Flying Field Is Scene of Death When Airplane Falls To Earth Chanute Field Rantoul First First Lieutenant William L. L Wheeler 34 an officer of the air service at Canute field was burned to death when the airplane which he was piloting burst into flames twenty-five twenty feet in the air crashed to the ground a mass of fire Cecil S. S Burger private first class his passenger leaped to the ground alighting on his face but sustained only minor injuries Mitchell Field L. L I. I One I.-One One aviator was killed and a second seriously in injured injured injured in- in in a crash during luring the first event of the International air races held here Two men men Clarence Clarence D. D Chamberlain Chamber Chamber- lain a pilot and Lawrence a n passenger were passenger were in the machine when it crashed several miles away from the judges stand Buranelli died in the wreckage of the machine a few minutes after the crash Chamberlain was brought to the Mitchell field post hospi hospital l and was immediately placed upon the operation oper oper- op table His His- right leg was fractured fractured fractured frac frac- his scalp deeply lacerated and he had sustained concussion of the brain Major I I. I B. B Marsh flight surgeon I in charge said be probably would recover The machine crashed so far from the field that the accident was no not t witnessed by spectators 5 and it was first reported by telephone Buranelli's two brothers were e present for the race One Vincent Vincentis is the designer of the plane in which the two men were flying The other Prosper is a feature writer for a aNew aNew New York newspaper Lawrence Buranelli is an inspector r of airplanes Chamberlain is is' the owner of a an n airplane service with h headquarters in Heights He has been n frequently employed by New York k newspapers He is considered a professional aviator of skill Chamberlain and Buranelli too took k off with five other machines and were e to fly twenty laps around a mile five e course e marked by three pylons one on onon on Mitchel field another at Meadowbrook Meadowbrook Meadow Meadow- brook and the third two miles south sout h of Meadowbrook They were at an altitude of about feet when th the plane from a cause not at first determined plunged to the earth The Bellanca CE 2 was a monoplane monoplane monoplane mono mono- plane of peculiar construction Its wings were supported by struts which joined them at the top and ran upward upward upward up up- ward to a framework surmounted on the fuselage f |