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Show GIRL STUNT FLIER KILLED Dangling By Rope From Airplane She Is Dashed to Earth. ei-EVEL.AXD, Tenn.. Oct. 14. (By the Associated Press.) Damping in mld-alr. unable to climb back to the airplane and afraid to trust to a lrop into a lake below. Miss Eva Moss, Chattanooga, stunt flier. Friday ;irtcr- noon was fatally crushed when the' aviator was forced to descend. Scorning th fact that thn day was Friday and the dale tho thirteenth. Miss Moss wont up for an c.hib.:lon flight, and had clambered out onto the win? of the plane, then let herself her-self down the 25-foot rope ladder, where she was suspended in mid-air by her tooth. When the time rame for the young woman t' climb baei to the airplane, either by reason of exhaustion or through becoming entangled in the rope of the ladder, she was unable to do so. Tho pilot, sec-Ins her predicament, pre-dicament, flew out over n lake and circled about as low as possible, at the same tlmo railing and signalling for her to Jump Into the water. Whether through four or inability to do this Is unknown, but she remained re-mained clutching at- the end of the rope. In the meantime, the mechanician, observing the tragedy which was beJ Ing enacted In the air, hurrldllyl summoned an ambulance and physicians, phy-sicians, which were waiting when the plan-- ftnally dscendod. I I fUUI K IW.oYV. In landing the young woman was thrown against the ground with a terrlfi.- Impact, after which she was dragged for fifty or a hundred feex hefnre the plane came to a stop. She lived for 20 minutes, but never regained consciousness. Aviator Peebles, with whom Miss Moss was flying, is heartbroken over the tragedy. He has announced his Intention of never again flying. PI IRMER ErTENOORAPHJ It. CHATTANOOGA. Tenn.. Oct. 14. The body of Miss Eva dell Moss, who was killed at Cleveland late Friday Fri-day afternoon while doing a stunt on a rope ladder hanging from an airplane, air-plane, was brought to Chattanooga. It was stated by a member of the family here that an effort had been made t-y the girl's mother, Mrs. T. R. Moss, to persuade her to give up her hazardous haz-ardous calling. She was formerly employed by the Chattanooga Hallway & Light coni-jpany coni-jpany as a stenographer. |