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Show IVIATOR BOUND FOR UTAH KILLED IN NEVADA I Pi'of 5ooi fo Marry Crashes to Death in Tail Spin Near Elko 1 BAN FKANt-ISCO, Feb. 22.-..aPtain W. F. 1,...-.,,. air mail service pilot on the Reno to Salt Lake leg in the attempt to establish a recofel for rapid delivery between ban Francisco and New York, was killed todaj at Elko. Vv- wh?n his piane fell, according to advices received here Captain Lewis was pioting one of the two planes which left San Francisco at ' 80 a m Ho "UK eharfc oi i he plane at Reno, The message to air mail service headquarters heie said that Captain Lewis machine, in laklnc off from Elko, went Into a tall spin and crash-d to tne ground, tils altitude was not given in the messa i According to air mail officials here Captain Lewis ha- uerved in the American air forces durln the world war and had been in the air mall service a trifle less than two month-, flying usually between Reno and Elko The message said that the accident fulloTvod Captain Lewis' safe arrival at Llko from Reno with the mall. He transferred to another machine which loll with him. AVIATOR ADOUT TO BE MARRIED I RENO, Nev., Feb 22 Captain William E. Lewis, who was killed at Elko ;this morning while attempting to lower the time ot aerial mail delivery between be-tween San Francisco and New York, engaged an apartment here last night upon his arrival from the east preparatory to his weddlttfi to Miss M. E. j Bryant, of San Francisco, early next month, frier..!:- ol the piloi Btated todaj Lewis' ship went into a tall spin after "turning flat" during the take-off l at Elko at 9:3$ o'clock this morning and crashed to earlh. The pilot was killed Instantly, according to advices received here Ho left Reno at 7 10 o'clock with the mail ergo brought from San Francisco by Pilot Little. I who arrived at 7 o'clock behind Nutter. The mail was transferred at this point to another plane and was placed aboard a third plane at Elk.. Lewis had been in the mail service since early in January. He was an army flier, having enlisted during the early stages of the war at Chicago land was stationed niot of the time In the Hawaiian Islands. Before the war i Lew is was an electrical engineer. Ho was about 3k yen s old. SUCCESSFUL COMPANION ARRIVES SALT LAKE CITY, Utah. Feb. 22. Driven by Pilot Eaton, ail air mail plane which left San Francisco early today with a plane piloted by Captain V. Lewis, who died when his machine fell near Elko. Nev., arrived here at 12 33 o'clock. The planes were scheduled to participate in a test of night and day Hying. They stopped at Reno and Elko, Nev. on the way here. : Pilot Murray relieved Pilot Eaton in continuing the journey eastward, "taking off on the Salt Lake to Cheyenne. Wyo., leg of the journey. |