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Show JIB NIHIL PILOT DIES i CRASH John P. Woodward's Machine Hits Ledge During Snowstorm V vSHlN'tjTON. Nov. S. John P. . Woodward, an- mall Pilot, whose b$J ' was found yesterday in the wreckage of his plane near Laramie, Wyo niet bis death through flviiiK into a mountain moun-tain side In a dense fojr. said a report : received today by the postofflce de-, de-, parlinent. i The Salt Lake City landing field reporter! re-porter! thai a weather bureau warning 'of a fog was received s few minutes .iftei Woodward left the field en route in Cheyenne. Woodward's home was : in Mitchell. Iowa. i CHEYENNE. W'vo . Nov S John P Woodward air mall Pilot, was ! found dead In the w reckage oft his , plane at Tie Siding, forts hlllea weal of Cheyenne and fifteen miles south -ast of Laramie. W'yo.. late yesterday afternoon. Woodward was lat seen m the atr ov er Laramie at 2. 40 o'clock Saturday afternoon The pilot left Salt Lake at 1 1 30 a m Saturday and was scheduled to r ; rive here yrith mall at 3 o'clock yes-' yes-' terday afternoon. ! A snowstorm was jn progress dur-I dur-I ing this section Woodward's oody still strapped In I the scat of his wrecked machine, was .found in a BmOl p..ckel of rock by H search Ing part irom Laramie, i 'ther ! searcher.t during the clay had passed ! within ion feet. I indications were the plane had .crashed into b ledge of rock rising j barely 100 feet above, the railroad tracks, which it is presumed W'ood- ward was following. The machine fell into a ravine, 'i be engine was Jammed backw.iids through the forward cockpit cock-pit and Woodw -d seated in 'he re ir Cockpit, probaldy was instant!, crushed crush-ed to death. Coroner E. W. Johnson of AJban') couilty took charge of the body and It was taken to Iwiranle It Is presumed that the airman, living liv-ing very low In order to keep the 'tracks In view through a thick mist, lost sl?rht of them at the trun and while endeavoring to relbcati them crashed Into the mountainside The ! crest of Shej-inan hill rlse only about 500 feet above the railroad tracks and had Woodward cleareii the summit he I would have had a downgrade glide all the way to Cheyenne-. Superintendent E. Li. Dur.iphy of the Salt Lake division of the air mall service ser-vice has left his headquarters here for the seen' Woodward's body was taken tak-en to Laramie Woodward had been in this division of the service about a month. He was B6 ears old. Ids home was ,it .Mitch-ellvllle, .Mitch-ellvllle, Iowa. On October 2C Woodward made what was described as a daring flight fr -n Li . i J-pringa, W'yo. ,o Cheyenne flvlng the entire distance In a dense fog. On that occasion he followed the railroad tracks. |