The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 31, 1912, Page 1

hat cost forty “This says lone. not trimmed a joo trimmed the hat mr han a no better tri med t hig HEN camera, in The Star photographer's hands, clicked just the instant that Turpin's wildly careening aeroplane dashed into the crowd in front of the Meadows’ grandst injured. This is perhaps the most remarkable picture of an aeroplane accident ever taken. Notice the men and women crouching gint marked with a white cross. .There tt epo: Says “No Com- in Ohio With Presse Lessed Wire) May 31.~-That will go to Chi- ly to lead the fight ‘fomination by the repub- ‘convention is the be of well posted poli- “The former president re- Geny that such a move tely. Roosevelt denied BP prevent intention was to a ly on the floor of but when pressed, that he might change and make the trip OR McCormick and « heey both of [ilacis, B the former presi With Col. Roosevelt tox offices. *No Compromise.” Me set determinstion compromive what wil i t for the republic mm, Col Roowevel: toda Walter Brown, his , instructing him to RM fo proposition from the or telegram read seen a te B Presiden: Taft sent Ar Vorys declaring he would 5 any compromise in Dati! 1 saw this telecram 1 seen any suggestion Was to be any compro- Tassume such sugzestion the Taft forces. In the T would not corsent to } and in the next Ay ole by more than lar primary. Any Site Taft a single dele ‘no mean to sanc- le effort to defraud by trickery and to nul- will, Taft has, and equity, no claim {9 8 single Onio delegate this clearly made for the right of the peo Own candidates , their lave the delegates carry out 4 I! who attempts to yi tingle deiegate at large ptf Taft is openly taking Convention is not the will of the people, Politicians are to be en- a eittY Popular will and Gutrage on justice.” MAT PARMELEE HOULD DO Te TP nmELeEE in the machine, in- Mpin, there would have dead amateur pho hove arhare a broken 4 all. Turpin took . ‘yl his hands when he ine to save the life the camera. He know how far the ra, would swing the ma- 5 's too tender-hearted * ea tsiness, When i'm y Is it for granted that sant Sear, and if anybody Wa his own look. with a groan, hat, did you say? bucks?” “A It Though may be, VOL, 14 WILD NO. wreckage fell to the grow SEATT , pinning people underneath, — ONLY INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER IN SEATTLE LE, WASH,, FRIDAY, MAY 31, 1912. ONE CENT he Seattle Star HOME EDITION ON TRAINS AND NWS STANDS Be PEOPLE CROWDING AROUND TURPIN’S WRECKED AEROPLANE 7 taken just after the machine had fallen to the ground, ed about the machine, trampling upon hate and’wédps dropped by persons who n @ were picked up from the ground after the crowd cleared awa CAN’T BELIEVE I WAS TO BLAME,” SAYS CLIF TURPIN Cliff Turpin’s face was swathed and being told that a man wae lin bandages when interviewed at|dead. Then I was in an.auta And | bumping over ro’ wogds. 1 must the Washington hotel this morning. | PumPINE over Tonghoroney le way The doctor had just gone. The avi- jig notet. ator’s face is terribly lacerated, and| atéident has taken the heart he may be disfigured for life, BOX! out of me. But I can't belleve that his hurts are not jewlis. Hel; was to blame. 1 took a risk talked with difffeulty, and occasion- when I tried to save a man whose ally wineed with pain as he wade death would have been on his own the Tollowing statement: head if I had chosen to run him | down In avoiding an accident, a BY CLIFF TURPIN wouke end he , vi d d ppened. Since the accident, I have asked D j : : covet if lam in any way to blame. There was only one to blame . Perhaps 1 should have ‘sacrificed |f00! with | a kodak camera—an¢ th n with the kodak, but I with a fool's luck, he escaped with- he ma ; , ut a scratch, thought 1 could avoid accident by |OUt * scratch FOR ARCHBALD should again arise, I would meet it jn the game way. I could not know—no aviator) could—that the machine would swerve too far, When | saw I was (Hy United Press Leased Wired WASHINGTON, May 31.~That } ng Judge Robert Archbald of the com pile coheed ahsspet lama Biba merce court had no fllicit dealings thé wings began to scrape the|with the Lackawanna railroad In succeeding in a measure—when president W. H. Truerdale and the machine caught on the fron | Vice President Loomis of the Lack pipe on the judges’ stand. The awanna, before the house judiciary J don’t remember what happened (officials absolved Archbald of any lthen. | am glad I don’t. I have a improper overtures in connewion hazy recollection of getting down ‘with the culm negotiations. 9 “J wheeling over, 1 tilted the right plane to right the machine, and fence, and | waa trying to get back negotiating for the puret of to the middle of the track—and culm piles was testified today by next instant | had «wang into the committee, which ts Investigating crowd. * the charges against Archbald. Both aoe ‘The biack arrow polats to the broken rowly escaped. ~ LIST OF DEAD AND INJURED THE DEAD” George Quinby, Monmouth, Ili., civil engineer, who lived at the Hotel Rhein. THE INJURED AT COUNTY HOSPITAL Raymond Chapman, 10 y old, fractured skull; dying. John Wall, 17 years old, of Everett, “hurt about hips; better this morning. AT CITY HOSPITAL— Mra. 8. C. Hoover, 2601 Eastlake av., leg broken, internal in- juries; no change at noon. : AT SEATTLE GENERAL— Mrs. E. B. Lang, 1351 30th ay. 8. left hand crushed so badly it had to be amputated. Was suffering from shock, but otherwise fairly improving today. AT HOMES— . Mra. F. H. Wiiheim, 3009 South Seventh st., Tacoma, minoi scalp wounds; better today. Thomas Chapman, Starbird-court, crushed; not serious. Clifford Turpin, aviator, who was driving machine, badly cut on face; better, Arthur Steendah!, 2257 15th av., leg Injured; not serious. Lester Johnson, 4037 Latona avy badly bruised about head and body. Paul Heilig, Hotel Otis, cut on face and head; feeling better today. si Mis. David Reibstein, 116 16th av. head and arms bruised; not serious. . by Reibstein, scratched and bruised; better, Miss Netta M. Waite, 900 17th av., ribs broken; condition seri- ous, 1812 Boylston av., hand Waite, back hurt; not serious. scalp wouhds. Many others were painfully hurt and cut, but left without wait- ing for assistance, and their names were not obtained, railing at which point Pe “diemembered finger and a woman's bloody the aeroplane was “THE MAN IN | CHARGE” TALKS | BY DEPUTY SHERIFF F. E, HART Director of the King County Fair Association charge of the police ar rangements of the meet The crowd was troublesome on both days—especially the amateur pho- tographers, Shortly before Turpin started his flight, | 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 I conducted possibly raphers to the r hine, and when they had taken their snapshots they left without making any trow ble, The track was absolutely clear when Turpin started. A few 50 photog | minutes before I personally put off the track the folly caused man whose reckless the accident He saw a chance to get a ture, however, jumped the fence and darted into the middle of the track, The biplane was approach ing faster than he realized. I saw him duck just as Turpin tilted the plane. I am not sure | would know him again I had 20 officers controlling the crowd, he * ORO tO ok Fair tonight; Saturday, showers; moderate southerly |* winds, Temperature at noon, * iw 58. * KAKA RRR KKK RRR KER * * a pic-| The meanest man lives in St He exposes his wooden ssquitoes and then 1 laughs as the poor out Louis leg to the sits back things their try spears to straighten eee y stand yesterday afternoon, when one person was instantly killed and a score se- down to escape the speeding machine as it grazed along only a few feet from the ground. The aeroplane struck KODAK FIEND WAS CAUSE OF ACCIDENT WHEN AVIATOR TRIED TO DODGE CAMERA MAN HE TILTED j MACHINE TOO MUCH AND IT CRASHED INTO CROWD, KILL- ING ONE AND INJURING TWENTY—LITTLE BOY DYING FROM INJURIES, Raymond Chapman, the 10-year-old boy whose skull was fractured, was reported, late this afternoon, to be dying at the county hospitay His parents are at his bedside A kodak-flend stood in the track at the Meadows yesterday after. noon. He carried a smali camera, cpen and ready, in his hands, and hopped up and down. An aeroplane was charging upon him, its pro- peller whirring with a venomous roar, like the hum of a million an- gry bees. Behind him was a mass of people packed against the grand stand Jered ed this man from a good picture. ack, and hi saw the danger, but the biplane Would it ar the d to the “finder,” and It would be a great could give a promi- as among the finest ow it to h der ui ection. wa shouted tc was deaf to warnings of 1 the pict now t ak-f t plane aA he acted promptly, he would not So he to the nkenly or not vated the ri The giant mechar bird swerved sicken swerved just enough so that the left aileron ca lon the little stand at the edge of the track still tr he machine would plane. ly to the left— ght on an iron pipe in- open. field {plane have turned turtle t was still hopping and now, the kodak tt MAMMOTH PARTRIDGE artridge “wing n flight of the & and the pre LIKE A oth machine t below bolt- 1 he press was making 1,200 revolu- Like a mar » the pwd in fr The mo min led in box tho: 1s working er ns a the Immediately r the accident at crowd in t rand stand surg- 1 ed down to get a closer view and to hunt souvenirs of the disaster, They stripped 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 & rope could be stretched around the biplane George Quinby Killed. | "Unlike most aeroplanes, Turpin’ Automobiles were utilized to car- has the propeller in front. It is an| fy the injured to the county and the | Seattle General hospitals. The dead engine of destruction | Se: | ‘The blades struck a man In the}™man taken to Butterworth & morgue, where, at 8 o'clock }face and sliced it off clean. He died | Sons | instantly Plunging on, the ma-|/Jast nigh the body was identified \chine knocked a boy down, and the| A. F. King, a friend, as that of blades crushed his skull, He is dy-| George Quinby, a civil engineer, liv- ing. A woman threw up her hand|!ng at the Hotel Rhein, on Union in an instinctive gesture of self-de- | 8t lfense. The blades chopped it at| Raymond Chapman, the 10-year- the wrist jold boy whose skull was crushed, The blades sliced off fingers and|¥88 taken to the county hospital, a nose, and they, too, were found| Where it was stated this morning later, | They broke bones and|that he could not recover. rushed flesh into pulp. Mystery surrounds the identity of Then the Engine “Died.” the woman whose hand was chop- And finally the engine “died” and | Ped foonake ie ia oe An |the propellers stopped. And Turpin! was with friends, who hurried her |removed his goggles and got down /1o'q Yoctor. Cle a |from his seat. His face was a : ; 8 folly is: the havoc his machine had wrought. Gnk mean dane When told that a man was dead P opengl wows ia y dying. and a boy dying, he sald: =“ Fifteen persons couldn't help it, A fool with a ko-) injured dak got in my way and | tried to/ se AR 5 save him, | tilted my left plane to| Re A AKK KR ER ARR RR gain the open field, hut it threw | ® me too much, so | tilted the right, * The remfrkable action pic- ‘hoping to regain my balance. And/* tures” of yesterday's aero- || don't remember what happened | * plane wreck were taken for after that, 1 wish I had died my-/% The Star by Jacobs, whose,stu- sif.” |* dio is on the second floor of Soon after that the aviator col-|* the P.1. building. Persons de- lapsed and was hurried to the city|* siring excellent prints of these and to the Hotel Washington, He|* photographs can obtain them was unconscious when the hotel|* from Jacobs’ Photo Shop. lwas reached, J | Whahedialaed daloiatcln latencies 'e fhe blades went through wd like a reaper throw the [In 10 seconds it reduced the Jarea to a shambles. An Engine of Destruction. owd saw the machine com Some threw them their faces, and so injury from the whirling propeller, only to be trampled on by ® panic-stricken |mob, Others, thinking less swiftly jstood stupefied by fright, in the |path of the biplane. ing o late jselves flat on Jescaped serious frightfully SAOeeeeeene