11 KNOWN DEAD

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29269, 29 July 1960, Page 13

11 KNOWN DEAD

Helicopter Crash In U.S.

CHICAGO. July 28 A big helicopter, carrying 13 persons, plunged in flames into a suburban cemetery last night. Police found 11 bodies and were searching for the other two. Wreckage and bodies were scattered over a big area. Eye-witnesses said the aircraft suddenly stopped in the air, zigzagged a moment 'and then plummeted to the ground in flames. An officer of the helicopter company, Chicago Helicopter Airways, Inc.,'said the pilot of the aircraft was Captain Robert Meyers, aged 37. The names of the other victims were not immediately available, but a company spokesman said “No one of national importance was known to be aboard.” He apparently referred to the fact the Republican national convention was meeting In Chicago. The helicopter, with a capacity of 14 including a crew of two, was carrying passengers from Midway airport on the southwest side of the city to O’Hare international airport on the northwest side. The tail section of the helicopter was found sheared from the fuselage in a grassy part of the cemetery. The main section, carrying at least five bodies, was spotted nearly two blocks away in a mass of tombstones. Lieutenant S. Goldenberg, of the Cook County police, said searchers account for 11 bodies and had no hope for the other two persons reported aboard. This was the second helicopter crash in Chicago In recent months. A few months ago a helicopter, used to report traffic in the city, crashed On the west side, killing the pilot and a passenger.

Marder of Son Alleged.—A Polish migrant, Sygmunt Krawsyzk, was charged in Wollongong Court yesterday with having murdered his eight-year-old son. In an alleged statement read to the Court, he said he took the boy to Port Kembla beach, south of Sydney, and drowned him and then buried him in the said “because he did not want the sharks to eat him.”—Sydney. July 28.