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Show IDAHO WDi UIG AND PILOT PERISH Sky Mail Carriers Burned to Death When Machine Catches Fire MORRISTOWV, N. J.. Sept 1 i Two men, unidentified, were burned to death In a government all-metal (airplane which went down here ih! I morning The plane was flying at a low altitude and the pilots seemed to he experiencing trouble with Ihr engine Farmers saw the plane take a sudden dive and burst Into flximes. It hit the ground with a d thud and a tremendous explosion occurred, throwing mail bags hundreds of feet In every direct ion. Mil ill S BURNED OFF. Although the bodies were not 'charred beyond r cognition, helf clothes were burned nearly off and it was Impossible to identity them through ihis moi nc. A notebook found in the wreckage contained the name or T T Miller and a collar was marked "T K L." The mall bags bore the tags Jefferson Jeffer-son terminal Chicago, and carried mall for Ohio, Nebraska and South Dakota I A great portion of the mall was completely deal r&s ed. SVASH1NGTON, b pt 1 The post- office department received o brief report today from MorrlstOWfl N J;J on the accident which resulted in the destruction of a mall plane there and the death of Pilot M;i Miller and Mechanician Gliptave Rierson, No details de-tails were given beyond the fact that i the plane took fire In air. The plane was en route to Cleveland and Chicago from New York. Rletrsona home was In Troy. Idaho. Post office officials said Miller WAS i regarded a one of the most efficient' pilots in the service, H had a Blin-j ! liar accident in which his plane took fire some time ago, they said, but' -eattlngulshed the flames while stin in j air. The accident at Morrlstown was, the fourth cas. of a mall plane tattling tatt-ling fire, it was added, In HoO.ooo I miles of flying, liKCSMIJ-.H. O . Sept 1 Two a I- atoi-s, W. Iv Smith and Edward Uaight, both of New York, were se-verely se-verely burn'Cd when their airplane car-1 rylng mall from Chicago to New York I I brplfe into flaniea more than O.OoO feet above the earth near here yes- terday. I The cause of the fire has not been i , determined The plane was not bad-Llj bad-Llj damaged and the mail was un-' un-' harmed. The plane was one taken from the. i Germans and Is of a metal construe-, i tlon. |