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Show MAIL PLANE AFIRE, FALLS WITHIN SACRAMENTO SACRAMF.NTO, CaL.Jan. 4 An airplane air-plane of the transcontinental mall air service caught fire and was destroyed in a forced landing two hlocks from the City hall today, but the pilot, S. s Boggs, of Oakland, was unhurt. Half Of the 280-pound mall cargo was bu I, si Soon nft r the airship took otf o:i Its flight the motor died and Pogga was compelled to descend, lie volpaned for a few moments, but unable to find s suitable landing pluco, he steered for a street Intersection. He crashed through a pair of trolley trol-ley wires which snapped and set bis machine afire and also pulled telephone tele-phone and light wires down with him. The machine sped for half a block along the street before it could be stopp. ,l The fire department extinguished extin-guished the blaze. |