’PLANE WRECKED
FATAL CRASH IN KANSAS SIX KILLED; EIGHT INJURED [BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] (Rec. April 1, 9.40 a.m.) NEODESHA (Kansas), March 31. A private aeroplane, carrying the Canadian Toilers’ basketball team, of Winnipeg, the champions of Manitoba, and party, fourteen in all, crashed near here to-day, killing six and seriously injuring eight. The Toilers are the present Dominion champions, pending this year’s approaching play-offs. They had been playing at Tulsa (Oklahoma), prior to taking part in the play-off for the Dominion championship. Those killed were: A. H. Hakes, pilot; H. E. Egges, co-pilot; J. H. O’Brien, of Minneapolis, the owner of the plane; Mike Shea, a player; Joe Dodds, a player; and R. H. Bonynge, the business representative of the team. George Wilson, the manager, is believed to be dying. Allan C. Sampson, the president, is not critically injured. The others were injured in varying degrees.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 1 April 1933, Page 7
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