Ogden Evening Standard | 1911-07-08 | Page 3 | Dog Endangered Aviators' Lives

ftVlHtuno LiUco a ATLANTIC CITY, July 7. The Curiosity Cu-riosity of a bulldog endangered tho lives of Harry N. Atwood and Charles K. Hamilton," the aviators, this afternoon, after-noon, and compelled them to abandon aban-don their proposed tlight to Washington. Wash-ington. As their biplane started lioni the ground, the dog, running across the beach, poked his nose Into one of the whirling propellers. The dog was killed, vhile one of tho blades of the propeller was slightly split. Hamilton succeeded in temporarily repairing the damage and another attempt at-tempt was made to ascend, but it proved a failure, as a stiff northeast wind was blowing from the ocean, making the air current exceedingly tricky. On a third effort to get Into the air, the biplane rose about 100 feet. Then the experts on the ground noticed that one of the propellers had a greater lifting power than the other, and the machine sailed along a trifle unsteady. The biplane was hovering over the edge of the ocean when a sudden gust of wind struck it, and before Atwood could right the craft it plunged downward down-ward into the breakers. For an instant in-stant the aviators were covered behind be-hind a cloud of spray, then a dozen life guards plunged into the surf and assisted the two men to free thein-sehes thein-sehes and hauled the, machine on the beach. An examination showed that the air craft had been damaged beyond be-yond immediate repair, and the aviators avia-tors announced that the flight was off for the day.