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Show 1. . j AVIATOR ;! ) DAYTON, Ohio, Sept. 22. -r Forced Into tho air by the f Jeers of thousands, who called !' him a coward, Frank H. Miller, J -f 23 years old, a Toledo aviator, -f i-f- shot into the skr at twilight thlB evening, and when two hundred feet up was burned to ,-j death before tho eyes of tho -f 1' spectators on the Miami conn- --4- ty fair grounds at Troy, near hero. Miller had circled the race track and wbb Just Btarting on a spiral glide l Into a neighboring cornfield when if something went wrong. Ho could he f eon making a frantic atfompt to get .? his machine under contrpl, when Bud-t Bud-t denly the whirring of thf propellers $ ceased. Tho craft then dropped like f a shot for 50 feet, a tiny blue flamo coming from tho engine, and in au Instant the gasollno tank exploded. The machine Was wrecked, debris being hurled hundreds of feet. The aeroplane and its driver werO burned ajmost 'to a crlRp as they dropped rapidly to the earth. It was Millers second flight, of the day and the flftn and last of tho week. In a flight shortly after noon today his machine acted unsteadily and he did not care to go up again. |