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Show AEROPLANE I French Aviator Is Killed !H by Striking on jH His Head :H Nangls, France, Sept. 2. Captain do . Caminc o,m of the most experience 1 jH aviators in the French army, foil with i H his monoplane while flying here to- I'iI day and was Instantly hilled. The mI aviator struck on his head, which was til crushed. Tll Captain de Caminc ascended from i'l the aerdrome of Toussus-le-Noblo . early this morning with the inten IH lion of making a long-distnnce flight 4l He was a cool and intelligent aviator ll with scientific knowledge of a via- -il Boston, SepL 2. The first accident il in two years of aviation at Souunlum H occurred early this morning when Jo- seph S. Cummins fell two hundred jH feet in a Blerlot monoplane into Dor H Chester bay, but managed to dra himself out and swim ashore. He was il badly bruised, but expects to resume ' H flying next week. jH Cummins said afterward that tho I H sun had got Into his eyes and, beforo H he realized it, the monoplano wan ( H diving for tho water. H He was seen to make the plunge, jH and a boat pushed out and took him ' in. Cummings had worked himself I H free of his machine and was swimming . H for shore when picked up. ' H i iH Burned to Death. jH Buc, France, Sept. 2. Eight French 'H army officers left Buc in aeroplanes jH this morning for tho maneuvers of . H the seventh urmy corps near Chalons- !H Sur-Marne. Six of tho aviators ar- H rived at their destination, but tho H other two were missing. Presently Jl the news was received at headquar- s '-H tors that both were dead. Lieut. tjl Jacques Do Graillv, who today was j )H mentioned in the Official Gazette for H distinguished service and assigned to j fH special duty, was burned to death in H his machine, while the other officer, ( , jH Captain Do Caminc who was looked , M on as one of the best aviators In jH ihe French service, was crushed to ' :B death under his heavy motor after a B fall from a great helghL I -M |