The Seattle star. [volume], May 31, 1912, Image 1

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WHEN WILD AEROPLANE SMASHED INTO CROWD
The camera. m The photographers hands, clicked juat the inatant that Turpin's wildly careening aeroplane dashed into the crowd in front of the Meadows' grandstand yesterday afternoon, when one person was instantlv killed and a score se
■Nif rnjared Tftis is perhaps the most remarkable P>cture of an aeroplane accident ever taken. Notice the men and women crouching down to escape the speeding machine as it grazed along only a few feet from the ground. The aeroplane struck
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VOL. 14. NO. 78
PEOPLE CROWDING AROUND 1 URPIN'S WRECKED AEROPLANE
This picture was taken Juat after the machine had fallen to the ground. ,T*e black arrow polota to tl* brokan railing at which point the aeroplane was
Hundred* of p4*>pie crowded about the machine, trampling upon hata and w&pa dropped by persona who n « rowly escaped. A diamembered finger and a woman a bloody
glove were picked up from the ground after the crowd cleared away. . _
"I CAN'T BELIEVE I WAS TO BLAME,"
SAYS CLIF TURPIN
Cliff Turpin's face waa ewathed
In bandages whan interviewed at
the Waahington hotel thla morning.
The doctor had juat gone. The avi
ator's face la terribly lacerated, and .
he may ba dieflgured far 11#*, ho*
hla hurts are not d»wfl*r»oe. He
talked with difficulty, and occaeion
ally winced with pain aa he wade
the following statement:
BY CLIFF TUHPIN
Since the accident, I have asked
myself If I am In any way to blame, j
t'eihaps I should have aacrlflced
the man with the kodak, but I
though' I could avoid accident by
tilting the toft plane. And I hon-1
estly believe that, If a similar crisis
should again arise, I would meet It
,jn the ijarue way.
I could not Vnow—no aviator j
! could that the machine would
swerve too far. When 1 saw I was
; wheeling over, I tilted the right
plane to right the machine, and
'so swung back toward the grand
staud.
Thi wings began to scrape the
fence, and I waa trying to get back
to the middle of the track and
succeeding In a measure —when
the machine caught on tho Iron
pipe on the Judges' stand Th«<
next Instant I had swung Into the
crowd. •
I don't remember what happened
then lam glad 1 don't. I have a
1 hasy recollection of getting down
The Seattle Star
find being told that ■ man was
dead. Then I was In an »«'d And
humping over rough mad* I must
have 100 ro»*elousne*s on the way
to tto* 4tot«t
gf-cidenl has taken thr heart
out of me. Hut I ran t believe ihat
I waa to blame. I took a risk
when I tried to save a man whoae
death would have tieen on hla own
head If I had chosen to run him
down. In avoiding au accident, a
wora<> one happened.
There wan only one to blame —a
foot with a kodak camera and.
with a fool's lurk, he escaped with
out a scratch.
TESTIMONY
FOR ARCHBALD
(Br I nlfe«l t'remm I,ci»*e«! \%lrr»
WASHINGTON. May 31.-~Thnt
Judge Robert Archbald of the com
merce court had no Illicit dealings
with the Lackawanna railroad In
negotiating for the purchase of
calm piles wag testified today by
('resident W. H. True dale and
Vice President Loom Is of the l.aek
Hwanna. before the house Judlclnpy
committee. which Is Investigating
the charges against Archbald. Both
officials absolved Archbald of any
Improper overtures In connection ,
with the culm negotiations. (
ONLY INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER IN SEATTLE
• SEATTLE, WASH . FRIDAY. MAY 31. 1912
THE OfAD "
George Quinby, Monmouth, 111., civil engineer, who lived at
the Hotel Rhein.
THE INJURED
AT COUNTY HbSPITAL—
Raymond Chapman, 10 ycara old, fractured skull; dying.
John Wall, 17 yeara old, of Everett, hurt about hipa; better
thl* morning.
AT CITY HOSPITAL—
Mrs. S. C. Hoover, 2AOI Eaatlahe av., leg broken, internal In
jurlea; no change at noon. *>
AT SEATTLE GENERAL—
Mrs. E. B. Lang, 1351 30th av. 8., left hand crushed ao badly
it had to be amputated. Wat suffering from shock, but otherwise
fairly Improving today.
AT HOMES—
Mra. F. H. Wllhelm, 3009 South Seventh at., Tacoma, minor
scalp wounds; better today.
Thomas Chapman, Starblrd court, 1512 Boyiston av., hand
cruahed; not serious.
Clifford Turpln, aviator, who was driving machine, badly cut
on face; better.
Arthur Stesndahl, 2257 15th av., leg Injured; not serious.
Leeter Johnson, 4037 Latona av« badly bruised about head
and body.
Paul Htilig, Hotel Otis, out on face and head; feeling better
today.
Mrs. David Relbstein, 115 16th av., head and arms bruised;
not serious.
Baby Relbstein, scratched and feruiaed; better.
Miss Netta M. Waits, 900 17th av., ribs broken; condition serl.
ous.
E. H. Walts, father of Miss Walte, back hi*t; not serious.
S. C. Williams, 2310 E. Pike, scalp wouhds.
Ttfany othera were painfully hurt and cut, but left without wait
ing for aasistance, and their names were not obtained.
LIST OF DEAD AND INJURED
ONE CENT HOME EDITION
"THE MAN IN
CHARGE" TALKS
BY DEPUTY SHERIFF F. E. HART
Director of the King County Fair
Association
I had charge of the police ar
rangements of the meet. The
crowd wan troublesome on both
days especially the amateur pho
tographers. Shortly before Turpln
started his flight. I announced that
photographers wishing to snap the
machine would be given 10 minutes
In which to do so. and that after
that they would not be allowed on
the track.
1 conducted possibly 50 photog
raphern to the machine, and when
they had taken their snapshots
they left without making any trou
ble. The track was absolutely
clcnr when Turpln started. A few
minutes before 1 personally put off
the track the man whose reckless
folly caused the accident.
He saw a chance to get a pic
ture, however, jumped the fence
and darted into the middle of the
track. The biplane was approach
init faster than he realized. I saw
him duck just as Turpln tilted the
plane lam not sure I would know
him again
I had 20 officers controlling the
crowd.
* Fair tonight; Saturday, *
* showers: moderate southerly *
* winds. Temperature at noon. *
* 68. *
KODAK FIEND WAS
CAUSE OF ACCIDENT
WHEN AVIATOR TRIED TO DODGE CAMERA MAN HE TILTED
MACHINE TOO MUCH AND IT CRASHED INTO CROWD, KILL
ING ONE AND INJURING TWENTV—LITTLE BOY DYING
FROM INJURIES.
Raymond Chapman, the 10-year-old boy whose skull was fractured,
ass .reported, late this afternoon, to be dying at the county hospital*
His parents are at his bedside.
A kodak-fiend stood in the track at the Meadows yesterday after
noon. He carried a small camera, pin and ready, in his hands, and
■ hopped up and down. An aeroplane was charging upon him. its pro
pellet whirring with a venomous roar, like the hum of a million an
ijry tees. Behind him was a mass of people packed against the grand
i stand.
S' v ral time* previously toe poilce lad ordered this man from
;he trick. Hut he was a kodak-fiend. He wanted a good picture, at
'close range. So > ach tim he returned to the track, and hopped in
-1 sanely, with his camera ready
Cliff Turpin was at the wheel and saw the danger, but the biplane
wan gathering momentum and beginning to rise. Would It clear the
kodak-fiend? The kodak-fiend's eye* were glued to the "finder." and
hi !>t« • *oltemei)t he ho,.ped har<!"r thii:i ever. it would be a great
picture. He could show It to his friends. He could give it a promi
nent plan- in his "den." He would gloat o\er it as among the finest
i snapshots in hlc collection.
Men In the crowd shouted to him. but he was deaf to warnings of
danger. He wnnted the picture
4nd Turpin knew by now that, unless he acted promptly, he
: would not clear th• kodak-fiend.
So h> tilted the left plane, holing thus to guide the midline in
to the open field. The biplane lurched drur.kenly and would have
; turned turtle had the operator not elevated ihe right plane.
The giant mechanical bird swerved sickenlngly to the left—
swerved just enough so that the left aileron caught on an iron pipe
,on the little stand at the edge of the track.
It ha<l passed, by now. tin koda>* fiend. who was still hopping and
still trying to looate the biplane with his "finder
LIKE A MAMMOTH PARTRIDGE
I.lke a mammoth partridge • w ng»d in flight, the machine bolt
ed into the crowd in front of the grand stand. Just below the press
bo* The motor whs working; the propeller was making 1.200 revolu
tions a minute.
The blade* went through the
crowd like * reaper through wheat!
In 10 seconds It reduced that packed
area to a shambles.
An Engine of Destruction.
The crowd saw the machine com-:
Inn too late Some threw them -j
selves flat on their faces, and so
escaped serious Injury from the;
whirling propeller, only to be j
trampled on by it panic-stricken:
mob. Others. thinking leas swiftly, 1
stood stupefied by fright. In the
path of the biplane.
Cnllke most aeroplanes, Turpln's
has the propeller In front. It Is an
engine of destruction.
The blades struck a man In the
face and sliced It off clean. He died
Instantly Plunging on, the ma
i bine knocked a boy down, and the
blades crushed his skull. He is dy
ing. A woman threw up her hand
in an Instinctive gesture of self-de-l 1
fense. The blades chopped It at i
the wrist
The blades sliced off fingers and |
a nose, and they, too. were found
later. They broke liones and
crushed flesh into pulp.
Then the Engine "Died."
And finally the engine "died" and
the propellers (topped. And Turpin
removed his goggles and got down
from his seat. His face was a
bloody mass. He stared dazedly at;
the havoc his machine had wrought.
When told that a man was dead
and a boy dying, he said: "I j
couldn't help it. A fool with a ko
dak got In my way and I tried to
save him. I tilted my left plane to
gain the open flel<«, h"t it threw
me too much, so I tilted the right,
hoping to regain my balance. And
I don't remember what happened
after that. I wish I had died my
slf."
Soon after that the aviator col
lapsed and was hurried to the city
and to the Hotel Washington. He
was unconscious when the hotel j
was reached. 0
The meanest man lives in St.
Louis. He exposes his wooden
leg to the mosquitoes and then
sits hack and laughs as the poor
things try to straighten out
their spears.
Immediately after the accident
the crowd In the grand stand surg
ed down to get a closer view and to
• hunt souvenirs of the disaster.
They stripi>ed the broken machine.
! gathered splinters from the ground,
and even snipped off bits of wire.
They got In the way of those car
ing for the Injured, and the police
finally used rough tactics to drive
back the morbidly curious, so that
a rope could be stretched around
the biplane.
George Quinby Killed.
Automobiles were utilized to car
ry the injured to the county and the
Seattle (teneral hospitals. The dead
man was taken to Hutterworth &
Sons' morgue, where, at 8 o'clock
last night, the body was Identified
by A K. King, a friend, as that of
(leorge Quinby, a civil engineer, liv
ing at the Hotel Rhein on t'nlon
Ist.
Raymond Chapman, the 10-year
j old boy whose skull was crushed,
was taken to the county hospital,
where It was stated this morning
that he could not recover.
Mystery surrounds the identity of
the woman whose hand was chop
ped off. She cannot be located "at
the hospitals. It Is possible she
was with friends, who hurried her
to a doctor.
Summed up, the price paid
for a kodak fiend's folly ia:
One man dead.
One boy dying.
Fifteen persons frightfully
injured.
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