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Aviation Victims Now Number 100. Berne, Switzerland; October 14, 1911. Hans Schmidt, an aviator, was killed today while making an exhibition flight. His machine fell 150 feet, the gasoline exploded, and the aviator was incinerated. The progress in the science of aviation has been costly in human life. With the death of Hans Schmidt at Berne, Switzer-land, yesterday the number of persons killed in aeroplane accidents has reached an even hundred. Beginning with the death of Lieut. Thomas E. Selfridge, the first person killed in an aeroplane, in 1908, the list of fatalities has rapidly increased, especially in the present year, when the deaths almost double,1 the combined number for the three preceding years. In 1908 one man lost his life, in 1909 four, in 19101 thirty-two, and to date for the present year sixty-three persons have been killed. Aviation's victims include sixteen Americans: Lieut. Selfridge, Eugene Speyer, Ralph Johnstone, Walter Archer, John B. Moisant, William G. Purvis, Lieut. George E. M. Kelly, A. V. Hardie, William R. Badger, St. Croix Johnstone, J. J. Friable, Louis Rosenbaum, Frank H. Miller, Dr. Charles B. Clarke, and Cromwell Dixon. France has contributed more victims to the list than the combined numbers of America, Germany, and Italy, her number totaling :47, including a woman, Mine. Denis Moore, who fell at Etampes on July 21 of the present year. Another woman, the Baroness de la Roche, had a narrow escape at the Rheims meet in July, 1910, when she fell 160 feet, breit,k-ing her arms and legs. German airmen who lost their lives number 12, Italian 8, English ?, and Russian 5. The others represented in the list were Peigiana, Peruvians, Spaniards# t has be6n pointed out that whereas in the earlier days only the most fitted, mentally and physically, dared flights, nowadays great numbers of amateurs do so. The deaths for the present year include a number of aviation pupils, the most recent being Dr. Charles 13. Clarke, an amateur who had not obtained an aviator's license, but who made a flight in a borrowed monoplane against oiklera at the Nassau Boulevard, Long Island, aviation meet. Dr. Clarke, whose real name was Charles Clarke Bunting, was once a famous bicycle rider, better known in vaudeville circles for his 4 a Globe of Death " act. lie had helped to construct aeroplanes in the Queen Aeroplane factory and he was anxious to learn to fly. During.'the Nassau meet a Queen aeroplane, equipped with a powerful Gnome motor, a different affair from which Clarke had learned to fly, had been entered by Earle Ovington, and it was in this machine that Dr. Clarke made the flight which cost his life. Double fatalities. in which rider and passenger were killed, were common, seven having occurred, while on June 18 of the present year three Frenchmen, Capt. Prineeta.u, T. Le Martin, and M. Landron, were killed near Paris at the start of the European circuit race, which was won by Lieut. Conneaut (Andre Beaumont.) Capt. Princetau's motor exploded in midair, flooding him with gasoline and burning him to death, and M. Landron met the same fate when the benzine pi the reservoir exploded. M. Le Martin wts killed when his biplane pitched into a tree, the motor of the machine crushing his head. on two occasions aviators had been goaded to ascend by the Jeers of spectators. On Sept. I last, at the Norton County (Kansas) Fair meet, J. J. Frisbie went up in a crippled biplane which had met with an accident the - clay before, driven by the taunts of the crowd. When up about 100 feet the machine tipped while making a turn and came down, crushing him underneath. Under the same cir-cumstances Frank H. Miller, Toledo aviator, was forced to fly at the Mans-field (Ohio) Fair by spectators, who called him a coward. Miller had barely circled the field, 200 feet up, when the gasoline tank exploded, setting fire to the ma-chine. and burning its driver to a crisp. Two other victims were lost while making flights and their bodies have never been recovered. They are Cecil Grace, a nephew of ex-Mayor Grace of New York, and Lieut. Dague, a French aviator. Grace disappeared in a fog over the North Sea on Dec. 22, 1910, while attempting a return flight from Calais to Dover for the Baron de Forest prize of $20,000. He was never heard of again. His cap, gloves, and what was supposed to have been the wreckage of his aeroplane were picked up a month later in the North sea. off Marla-kerke, Belgium, and later, on March 14, a greatly disfigured body was brought to the surface at Ostend. 18elgium and was thought to resemble the 'lost aviator, The executors of Grace's estate obtained leave from the London Probate Court to pre-sume his death on March 27. Lieut. Bague started from Nice on June 5 for el trip to Corsica, a distance of a little more than 100 miles, but nothing had ever been heard from him again. Torpedo boat destroyers sent out to search could find no trace of him. Bague carried carrier pigeons with him, and it is supposed that the aeroplane capsized so suddenly that he was unable to set them loose. Just three months before his disappearance, on March 5, Lieut. Bague had established a new record for an over-sea flight by flying over the Med-iterranean from Antibedes to the little island of Gorgona, a distance of 124.5 miles. Conflicting currents In the atmosphere which cause upward and downward mo-tions of the air and which have been de-Scribed by experts as " holes in the air," have been responsible for many of the fatalities. It is the downward currents that are particularly dangerous to avia-tors and which cause the airman to make a sudden drop from a great height to within a few feet of the ground or death, Observers on THE TIMES'S special train which followed Glenn Curtiss in his flight from Alhanr, noticed that on several oc-casions he dropped from a height of more then 11.9 feet to wIthin 5 feet of the ground. Wilbur Wright stated that in his flight up the Hudson during the Hudson-Fulton Celebration, there were times when the air seemed to boil and was full of bumps like a rough road. The month just ended has been a, rec-ord-breaking one for aeroplane fatalities, 16. deaths having been recorded for September, two better than the previous record of 14, which occurred in May, 1911.
Here is a list of those killed:

Deaths in table

Annotated deaths sorted by date

1908.

• 01. September 17, 1908. - Lieutenant Thomas Etholen Selfridge, Signal Corps U.S.A., killed at Fort Myer, Indiana, while flying with Orville Wright in a Wright biplane. Wright had a narrow escape and was injured.
  

1909.

• 02. September 07, 1908. - Eugène Lefebvre, a French aviator, killed at Juvisy, France while flying in a Wright biplane.
  
• 03. September 22, 1908. - Captain Louis Ferdinand Ferber of the French Army, killed at Boulogne-sur-Mer, France, while flying a Voisin biplane.
  
• 04. September 22, 1908. - Ena Rossi killed in a machine of his own make when flying near Rome. Note: Very little information is available on him and he may be the same person as Enea Bossi, Sr., who was an aviator, who did not die in 1909.
  
• 05. December 09, 1908. - Antonio Fernández Santillana, a Spanish aviator, but a French citizen, killed at Nice, France while trying a machine of his own construction, designed after the Wright model.
  

1910.

• 06. January 04, 1910. - Léon Delagrange, one of the most famous French aviators. killed in a Bleriot monoplane near Bordeaux, France.
  
• 07. April 02, 1910. - Hubert Le Blon, another well known French aviator, killed near Sebastian, Spain, while driving a high-powered Bleriot monoplane which turned turtle.
• 08. May 13, 1910. - Gabriel Hauvette-Michelin, another French aviator, killed at Lyons, France, in an Antoinette monoplane.
• 09. June 02, 1910. - Aindan Zoselley, a Hungarian aviator killed by fall from a machine of his own construction at Budapest, HUngary.
• 10. June 17, 1910. - Eugene Speyer, a seventeen-year-old boy, killed by 50-foot fall at San Francisco, California.
• 11. June 18, 1910. - Thaddeus Rohl, a German aviator, formerly a professional bicycle rider, killed near Stettin, Germany, while flying a Farman biplane.
  
• 12. July 03, 1910. - Charles Wachter, a French aviator, killed at Rheims, France, in an Antoinette monoplane.
  
• 13. July 10, 1910. - Daniel Varlet, a Belgian aviator, fell in Ghent, Belgium, while flying a Farman biplane.
  
• 14. July 12, 1910. - The Honorable Charles Stewart Rolls youngest son of Lord Llanitattock, killed at Bournemouth, England, while flying a Wright biplane.
  
• 15. August 03, 1910. - Nicholas Ethel, a brother of Pastel Ethel, killed by fall of 100-feet at Liege, Belgium.
  
• 16. ???????????????. - Lieutenant Nfarqula Vivaldiof the Italian army, killed near Rome in a Farman biplane.
  
• 17. August 27, 1910. - Van Nfaasalyk, a Dutchman, was making a cross-country flight in a Sommer biplane when the motor stopped, causing the machine to turn turtle.
• 18. September IL - George Chavez. a Peruvian, had flown over the Alps from Brig., Switzerland, for a prize of $520,000 for a flight to Milan. He tried to make a landing within thirty miles of Milan. He was within thirty feet of the ground when the wind caught his Blerlot machine and dashed It to the ground. Chavez died Sept 27.
  
• 19. September 21, 1910. - Edmond Poillot, a Frenchman, killed at Chartres, France, while flying with a passenger who escaped with slight injuries.
  
• 20. September 28, 1910. - Flockmann. a German, had a fall of 150 feet at 3fuhlhausen, Germany. He died the next day.
  
• 21. October 01, 1910. - Herr peas, another German, killed at Wellen, Germany.
  
• 22. October 07, 1910. - Captain Maziewiteh of the Russian Army, fell 1,640 feet at St. Petersburg.
  
• 23. October 23, 1910. - Captain madtot of the French Army, fell 100 feet at lineal, France.
  
• 24. October 25, 1910. - Lieutenant Monte of the German Army killed near Magdeburg, Germany.
  
• 25. October 28, 1910. - Fernando Blanchard, a Frenchman, killed at Isey-tee-Mollneux, France. He team preparing to land at the Neigh of a 140- mite (light from Bourget He was going great speed, 120 feet up, when he Mat control of Ills monoplane. br>
• 26. November 27, 1910. - Lieutenant Saglietti of the Italian Army, killed at [[Contoeelle, Italy], The aeroplane tipped and Saalfetti was unable to right it.
  
• 27. November 17, 1910.- Ralph Johnstone, flying partner of Hassey, fell ??-feet at Denver, Colorado. He was making a spiral glide when the lower left plane of his machine broke.
• 28, 29. December 03, 1910.- Lieutenant Cammamta of the Italian Army, while flying with a soldier near Rome in a Farman biplane, lost control of the machine and It dropped. Both were killed.
  
• 30. December 04, 1910. - Walter Archer, killed at Salida, Colorado.
  
• 31. December 22, 1910. - Ceell Grace, a nephew of ex-Mayor William Russell Grace of New York City. ...eared while filing an a return trip acme the English Channel from France. He was flying a Wright biplane.
  
• 32. December ??, 1910 - Piccolle killed in an Antoinette machine at Sao Paulo, Brazil.
  
• 33, 34. December 28, 1910. - Alexander Laffort fell 200-feet at Ism% France, on what was to have been the start of a flight to Brussels In company with NI. Poin, who owned the machine. The latter was also killed.
  
• 35. December 30, 1910 - Lieutenant Gement of the French Army Aviation come fell 60-feet while testing a new monoplane at Versailles, France.
  
• 36. December 31, 1910. - John B. Moisant killed at New Orleans, Louisiana, while trying for the Michelin prize.
  
• 37. December 31, 1910. - Arch Hoxsey, the famous Wright aviator, killed at Los Angeles, California.
  

1911.

• 38. January 9, 1911 - Edouard Rusjan (1886-1911), killed at Belgrade, Serbia.
• 39. February 0.-Lieut. Stein of the German Military Aviation Service. killed at Dolmens, Ger-many, by it fall of 05 feet. di'.
  
• 40, 41. February 9.-Noel and Delatorre killed while conducting trial of military aeroplane at Donal. France. Noel was aviator and Dela- torn; passenger. •2. Starch 8.-Arturo Vitiate, killed at Madrid, Spain.
  
• 42. March 28.-Joseph Cot, killed by 2,204 foot fall at navies, France, while attempting a flight over the Seine.
  
• 44. April I4.-French Naval Lieutenant Byasson, killed by fall at Chevreuse, France.
  
• 45. April 18.-French Army Captain Carron. killed by fall of 250 feet at Versailles, France. 46. April 20.-LoUlti Llere, killed at Mouemelon, France.
  
• 47. April 25.- William G. Purvis, died at Baton Rouge, Louisiana; fell on March a
• 48, 49. May 1.- Matievitch and brother, killed at Sevastopol.
  
• 50. May 4.-Cachaux, killed at Kiewit. Belgium.
  
• 51. May 10. - Rene Fallon. French aviator, killed by fall in Shanghai, China.
  
• 52. May 10.-Lieut. George Edward Maurice Kelly, U.S.A., killed by fall at San Antonio, Texas.
  
• 53. May 11.-Mane Bockentueller, killed at Johannisthal. near Berlin.
  
• 54. May 17.-A. V. Hardlr. an amateur aviator, killed by 100-foot fall at One Angeles.
  
• 55, 56. May 18.-Lieutenant Paul Durnis and Pierre M. Bournique, fell 250 feet at Rheims; both killed.
  
• 57. May 21. - French Minister of War Henry Si. Berteaux killed on aviation field at fear-:es-aplitriile.lneaus, neer Paris, by Aviator Train's cro
  
• 58. May 23.-711enunlin, killed by 200-foot fall at Stramburg.
• 59. May 25.-Benson, aviation pupil, killed widlcattempting turn at Hendon. England.
  
• 60. May 27.-Smith, British aviator, killed by fall of 125 feet at St. Petersburg.
  
• 61. Den 2.4.-Cirri. Italian aviator. killed when aeroplane catches fire at Voghere, Italy.
  
• 62. June 3.-Quares. killed at San Pablo. Brazil: fell an Jupe 1.
  
• 63. June 5.-]lancet Pennot, died at Havana fell on Jana I.
  
• 64. June 5.-Lleut. Baguet a French aviator, lost while attempting flight over the Mediter-ranean front Nice to Corsica.
  
• 65. Junt 5.-Marra, killed by fall of 800 feet at Rome.
  
• 66, 67.-June 0.-Schendei and Nfechanic Voss fell over 0,000 feet at Johannlethal; both killed.
  
• 68. June 9.-Vincenz Weisenbach, killed at Wcint r Neustaelt, Austria. nu,
  
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• 70, 71. Juno Prineetau. T. at Martin. and Minerva, killed near Park at ,tart of European circuit raee. Princeton and Landron wore burned to death In midair.
  
• 72.-June 29.-Lieut. -erection. killed while making first trip as pilot at Chalons-Sur-Marne.
  
• 73.-July 14.-French aviator Edouard Paillote killed making exhibition flight at Algiers.
  
• 74. July 21.-Mme. Denis Moore. a French woman, killed by 150-foot fall at Etampes. Franca.
  
• 75. July 21.-Soly, killed at Juvisy while making a flight In biplane. 70. July 25.-M. Shinansky, a passenger, killed at Tsarekoe-Selo. Russia, while flying with M. Slusarenkos; the letter woe badly in-ju7r.
  
• 76. Aug. 1.-Germal Napier, English aviator, dashed to ground at Bronklands. England; P08- censer escapes with injuries.
  
• 77. Aug. 15.-Witham R. Badger, crushed to death by his machine at Chicago aviation meet. Pit.
  
• 78. Aug. 15. - St. Croix Johnstone falls Into Lake Michigan from height of 1.000 feet during Chicago aviation meet. ea.
  
• 79. Aug. 18. Theodore Ridge, an English aviator, killed at Aldershot.
  
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• 81. Aug. 29.-Lieut. Zolotnehin. a Russian Mtary aviator. fell at St. Petersburg.
  
• 82. Sept. 1.-J. J. Friable killed by fall at Norton (Kan.) Fair Ground: went up In a crippled machine because spectators called him a faker.
  
• 83. September 02, 1911. - Lieutenant Jacques de Grainy, a French army officer, burned to death in his machine. which caught fire in midair, at lligny-la-Nonnelse, France.
  
• 84. September 02, 1911. - Captain de Camine, another French army officer, crushed by his monoplane at Nangis, France.
  
• 85. September 03, 1911.-French Airman :Waren killed by fall near Chartres, France.
  
• 86. September 04, 1911. Loforresier, French aviator, fell 200 feet while flying In Spain.
  
• 87, 88. September 07, 1911.-Lieut. Newmann. a German military aviator. fell with passenger. M. Le-conte, In Germany; both were killed.
  
• 89. September 07, 1911. - Carlos 'related dins of injuries received last February in Peru.
  
• 90. September 12, 1911. - Lieut. Chotard of the French Army fell 300 feet at Villecoublay. France.
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• 91. September 16, 1911. - Édouard Nieuport, the French Army aeronaut, dies of injuries, fell at Verdun, France September 15, when wind capsized his aeroplane.
  
• 92. September 17, 1911.-Lieut. R. A. Cammell of the British Aviation School, killed while making a flight at Hendon, England.
  
• 93. September 19, 1911. fa-Louis Rosenbaum killed by 000-1 fall at Dewitt. Iowa.
  
• 94. September 22, 1911. Frank H. Miller burned to death in his machine at Troy, Ohio fairgrounds, crowd cheered him into the air.
  
• 95. September 22, 1911.-Tony Castellanos fell 500 feet at Mansfield (Penn.) fair grounds. I pa sem.
  
• 96. September 25, 1911,-Dr. Charles B. Clarke, once a :famous bicycle rider, went up In a borrowed monoplane at Nassau Boulevard (L. I.) aviation meet.
  
• 97. September 29, 1911.-Captain Englehardt. a German pioneer aviator, 1011cd at Johannisthal meet; passenger escapes with fractured skull.
  
• 98. October, 1911 - Cromwell Dixon, "the boy flier", who flew over the Rocky Mountains on September 30, killed by fall at Spokane, Washington fairgrounds, cross-current of air upset machine.
  
• 99. October 14, 1911.-10. Levee fell at Rheims with machine when 250 feet in the air.
  
• 100. October 14, 1911. - Hans Schmidt incinerated at Berne, Switzerland when making an exhibition flight. His gasoline tank exploded and his machine fell 150 feet.
  

Besides the above list, four persons have been killed and dozens injured by aeroplanes getting beyond control of aviators and falling among spectators. On October 18, 1909. M. Blanc, a French aviator, fell among the crowd at Juvisy, France, mortally wounded a woman and injured a dozen other persons. On August 1, 1910, Mme. Franck, a Parisian airwoman, while flying a biplane at Sunderland, England, struck a flagpole and the machine was dashed to the ground, killing a boy. Mme. Franck suffered a broken leg. A girl was killed at Limoges, France, on October 15, 1910, when M. Baillod steered his monoplane into a crowd, besides injuring several other persons. On May 21, 1911, the French Minister of War, Henri Maurice Berteaux, was killed and three other persons, including Premier Ernest Monis and his son were injured when aviator Train lost control of his aeroplane at the start of the Paris to Madrid race. James Kinney, on October 11, 1911, was struck and instantly killed at Joplin, Missouri, by a biplane built by the Joplin High School boys and piloted by Harold Robinson.

People

• 001 Lieutenant Thomas Etholen Selfridge (1882-1908) of the United States. He died on September 17, 1908 in Fort Myer, Virginia in Wright biplane.
• 002 Eugène Lefebvre (1878-1909) of France. He died on September 7, 1908 at Juvisy, France in a Wright biplane.
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• 014 Charles Stewart Rolls (1877-1910) of England. He died on July 12, 1910 in Bournemouth, England in a Wright biplane.
  
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• 036 John Bevins Moisant (1868-1910) of the United States. He died on December 31, 1910 in Kankakee, Illinois in his Blériot XI while trying to win the Michelin Cup.
• 037 Archibald Hoxsey (1884-1910) of the United States. He died on December 31, 1910 in Los Angeles, California.
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• 091 Édouard Nieuport (1875-1911) of France. He died on September 16, 1910 in Verdun, France.
• 100 Hans Schmidt. He died on October 14, 1910 in Berne, Switzerland.

See also

• File:Aeroplane Victims Now Number 200 in the New York Times on October 16, 1912.png
• File:Necrology of Aviators in 1911 from the Brooklyn Daily Eagle Almanac of 1912.png

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