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Show I ins received a telegram from Wilbur Wrlsttf tonight, stating that he was leaving, in vompnny with Mrs, Johnstone John-stone for Kansas City, Johnstone's home, and In Jtiuctins Urooktirs to have his 1 bodr' Heni to thai city at I once. The measnse also requested Brookins to call off the meet providing provid-ing the Denver officials consented. At a late hour tonight, Biookins was in conference with promoter Harvey aud other officials of the meet trying to arrive ar-rive at a conclusion Brookins indicated indi-cated his personal deire not to make any more flights in Denver, but Hox- i sey said that he was willing lo con- I tlnuo. Sunday on his way to the scene of the aviation tnret, Federman said: "I suppose I'll rccclc a telegram on of these days to come after your remains." "Not mine." said Johnstone. "When I make a flight I have my plans well laid. Before I leave the ground T know exactly what I am going go-ing to do. Don't wrry about mc being be-ing Injured." Fedcrmann, said tonlcbt he would go to Denver and bring Johnstone's body here. Leaves Wife and Two Children. The dead aviator was horn here thirty years ago. His parents are dead. An Invalid sister, Miss Moy Johnstone, lives In Moberly. Mo- Johnstone" John-stone" wife and two children, a boy and a girl, are In New York. Johnstone was a trick cyclist before be-fore he became an aviator. Fifteen .years ago he used to entertain crowds In the streets here by giving performances perform-ances on a dilapidated cushioned tire bicycle. Fortune smiled on him and he became the possessor of a real bicycle with pneumatic tires. Was on a Vaudeville Stage. A few dajs later unannounced he went away and when he came home hp was in the employ of a vaudeville manager. He traveled extensively abroad giving exhibitions on his hi- j cycle. Me met In Berlin the girl who Inter became his wife. Six tnonths ago, Johnstone, through Roy Knabcnshue, secured an engase-ment engase-ment with the Wricht brothers. They llked his work and a few weeks ago he signed a contract extending It until un-til 1912. Johnstone had the greatest confidence In his ability to keep the world's record for height. He said while here that If any one broke the world's record which he held at the time of his death he would go even higher. gleofully away carrying his horrid trophv with the aviator" blood still dripping from it end. Frantic, the crowd tore away the canvass from over his body and fought for the very gloves that had protected Johnstone's hands from cold. Death Was Instantaneous. Tho machine fell on tho opposite side of the field from the grandstand and there were few near the spot, but physicians anil police were rusted across the field, physicians declared that death was Instantaneous as John- , THHE FLIGHTS OF THE DAY. j DENVER. Nov. 17. The flights in the aviation meet at Overland Park today which had a sad ending In the death of Ralph Johnstone, wero productive pro-ductive of the hightest flight ever made in this altitude. Arch Hoxsey, the first of the Wright aviators in the air today, started out to explore the current of the upper levels. Circling the course he mounted upward In gradually widening circles until he was flying far over the foothills to the west and over the city to the north. stone's back and legs were bioken. the bones of his thighs being forced through the flesh and the leather garments gar-ments he wore. Arch Hoxey, who in a previous flight this afternoon hud reached an altitude of 2 '.00 feet, had risen just before Johnstone began his fatal glide, and was in the air when the accident took place. As he swung around the other end of the course he saw that Johnstone had fallen and , guided his machine directly over the body of his friend. He descended as i soon as he could bring his plane to the ground and rushed to the wreck-1 age where he and Walter Brookins helped to lift tho mangled body into an automobile which brought it to the city. Woman Shrieks. Many of the spectators were watching watch-ing Hcxev's Hisht and did not see Johnstone's machine collapse, but a woman's shriek "My God, he's gone," drew every eye in time to see tho doomed man dashed to death upon the ground. The band In the grandstand blaring away under contract, never ceased to play and Johnstone's body was driven out of the enclosure with the strains of "A Orlzzly Bear" for a funeral march, '. It would seem that many Incidents had happened throughout the aviation meet here to worn the ill fatd aviator. avia-tor. Yesterday in alighting Johnstone ! broke the left wing of his machine against the fence. It was the same tip that gave way today and caused his death. Today when he started on his first flight one of the wheels on which the aeroplane runs along the ground gave way and he had to have it replaced. As he prepared to start for his last flight a Tox terrier that had broken through the fence stationed station-ed himself in the circle in front of the machine and barking frantically, refused to be ill I . en away. As the machine rolled down the track one of the wiugs swept a bore the dog which pursued the machine until it lifted into the air. Tried to O-jt-Do Hoxey. In discussing his flights in this rare atmosphere yesterday Johnstone declared de-clared he would attempt no "stunts" here as he considered it too dnncer-ous. dnncer-ous. Evidently however, he believed he had solved the problems of this altitude when he dropped bis machine, Hoxey's daring flight far over the foot hills seeiued to have fired him w.th a determination to out-do his teammate team-mate for the first spiral which he made safely was by fur the most daring dar-ing any of the aviators had attempted at this 3ieet Uncle Though Boy Would Get Killed. KANSAS CITV, Nov 17. When Ralph Johnstone, who was killed in an aeroplane accident in Denver to-day. to-day. started to leave the home of W. M. Federmann, his uncle here, last DARING AVIATOR MEETS DEATH DENVER. Nov. 17- With one wing-tip wing-tip of his machine crumpled like a piece of paper, Ralph Johnstone, the brilliant young aviator, holder of the world's altitude record, dropped like a plummet from a height of 600 feet Into the inclosure at Overland Park aviation field and was Instantly killed When the spectators crowded about tho Inclosure, reached him, his body lay beneath the engine of the biplane with the white planes that had failed him in his lime of need wrapped about it like a shroud. Nearly every bone In his body was broken. Was Game to the Last. He had gambled with Heath once too often, but he played the game to RaIph Johnstone the end, fighting coolv ?nd grimly to the last second to regain control of his broken machine. Fresh from his triumps at Belmont park, where ho had broken the world's record for altitude with a flight of 0,714 feet, Johnstone attempted to give the thousands thou-sands of spectators who stood with craned necks to watch him add an extra thrill with his most darins feat, the spiral glide, which had made the Wright aviators famous. The specta-j specta-j lors got their thrill, but it cost Johnstone John-stone his life It was bitterly cold and lloxrcy finally fi-nally turned back, sweeping down in beautiful spirals and figure eights. He made a beautiful landing, coming to the ground after a flight of 37 minutes, min-utes, so chilled he could hardly walk. While Hoxsey wa9 soaring high above Brookins and Johnstone flew around the course, jumping imaginary fences, dipping and turning, with machines under perfect control. Johnstone was first in the air for the second flights. He was followed a moment later bv Hoxsey, but Brookins Brook-ins had not 9tarted his macliine when Johnstone's planes crumpled and his fall put an end to all flights for the day. Hears of Husband's Death. NEW YORK, Nov 17. Johnstone's widow got the news of her husband's death from Wilbur Wright, who is In this city. She was'so prostrated that she denied herself to callers and Wilbur Wil-bur Wright said she had no statement for publication. Mr. Wright himself was without details de-tails of the tragedy until they were supplied him by the Associated Press. 1 'I cannot say anything about the accident except to express the grief I feel." he said. "The spectacle of the thing as it appears to the onlooker onlook-er or even to a newspaper man who has seen many flights and some accidents. ac-cidents. Is of no value to me. What I want is a dictation of how the thing happened from an aviator who saw it. "The altitude of Denver appears to have had nothing to do with it. Johnstone John-stone had said be considered the air I there -tricky. Perhans it was but Johnstone did not lose control, you tell me. I know that his left plane collapsed. "Wlhen Brookins and Hoxsey report, re-port, I can make an analsls of what can have happened. I supposed It j It will not he possible to tell much from the wrecked machine. That left plane was damaged yesterday, was It j not? Our men are careful but perhaps per-haps it was inadequately repaired." Wright Going to Denver.' DENVER, Nov. 17. Walter Brook- Second Flight of D3y. The fatal flisht was the second Johnstone had made this afternoon In the fllpht when he was In the air with Hoxey and Brookins he had gono through his usual pioprram of dips and glides with his machine apparently under control. Then Johnstone rose again and after a few Circles of the course to gaiu height, headed toward the foothills. Still ascending he swept back in a big circle and as he reached thf north end of the enclosure enclo-sure he started his spiral glide. He was then at an altitude of about Sun feet. Willi his planes tilted ;it an anule of almost 90 degrees he swooped swoop-ed down In a uanow circle, the aeroplane aero-plane seeming to turn almost In its own length. Lower Plane Gave Way. As be started the second circle the middle pur winch braces the left side of the lower plane gave way ami the wins-tips of Loth upper and lower planes folded up as though they had been hinged. For a second Johnstone ai tempted to right the plane by warping warp-ing the other wing-tip Then the horrified hor-rified spectators saw the plme swerve like a wounded bird and pluugo straight toward the earth. Johnstone was thrown from his seat as the nose of the plane swung downward. down-ward. He caught on one side of the wire stas between the planes and grasped one of the wooden braces of the upper plane with both hands. Then, working with hands and feet, he fought by main strengih to warp the planes so that their surfaces micht catch the air and check his descent. des-cent. For a second it seemed lo the white-faced "spectators almost under him that he might succeed, for the football helmet he wore blew off and fell much more rapidly than the plane Spectators Fled Wildly. The hope was only momentary, however, for when only about Sou feel flm the ground the machine turned completely over and the frightened spectators fled wildly as tin- broken plane with the teuse faced boy still fighting grimly in its mesh of wires and stays plunged among them with a thud and crash that could be heard over the big field. Scarcely had he hit the ground when sensation made brutes arid both j men and women swarmed over the wreckage fighting with one another for souvenirs of the terrible occasion. One of the broken wooden stas had thrust Its jagged end almost through Johnftone's hody. Before the doctors or police could reach Him scene one man bad t.rn this splinter from the crushed and mangled body and run |