'Plane Crashes Into Crowd

Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 174, 26 July 1938, Page 7

'Plane Crashes Into Crowd

Appalling Roll of Dead and Injured AT CENTRAL AMERICAN MILITARY REVIEW NARROW ESCAPE OF PRESIDENT AND SUCCESSOR United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. Received Monday, 11.20 p.m. BOGOTA (Colombia), July 25. At least 34 were killed and 150 injured when a military plane crashed into a crowd of 50,000 during a military review at the opening of the army camp. Physicians estimate the eventual death roll will be at least 50 because some of those injured are certain to die. The plane was performing aerobatics 90 feet from the ground when it attempted to pass between the diplomatic stand and the grandstand occupied by the President of the republic, Dr. Alfonso Lopez, and the president-elect, Senor Eduardo Santos. The tip of the wing hit the diplomatic stand and then struck the presidential stand. The steps of the latter were brushed off. The shrieks from the crowd were drowned in the noise of the plane ripping through the stand’s metal roof. There waa an explosion of the petrol tanks when the plane hit the ground and ignited. Immediately the crowds ran in all directions, but some were powerless to escape and those in the path of the propellers were decapitated as they cut through the bystanders like a scythe. Some of those injured were soaked by sprays of burning petrol and shrieked in desperation and pain. Dr. Lopez and Senor Santos were unharmed but the burning plane fell only a few yards from them. The wife of Julio Minoda, the Japanese Charge d’Affaires, was slightly injured about the head, while Isabel!, daughter of the British Minister, Mr. Montagu Paske Smith, had a narrow escape. The review marked the 155th anniversary of the birth of Simon Bolivar, the soldier, statesman and hero of South America’s nineteenth century struggle for independence. to the fence gave Australia the victory. Australia’s score was 107 for five wickets, beating England’s total by three runs with five wickets in hand. Scores:—

ENGLAND First Innings ., Second Innings Barnett, c Barnett, b McCormick .. 29 Edrich, stpd. Barnett, b Fleetwood* Hardstaff, b O’Reilly Hammond, c Brown, b O’Reilly .. 0 Paynter, not out Compton, c Barnett, b O’Reilly .i 15 Price, lbw, b Fleetwood-Smith . • 6 Verity, b Fleetwood-Smith .. .. Wright, c Waite, b Fleetwood-Smith 0 Fames, b O’Reilly 7 Bowes, lbw, b O ’Reilly Total Fall of wickets: One for 60, two for 73, three for 73, four for 73, five for 96, six for 116, seven for 116, eight for 116, nine for 123. Bowling Analysis. O. It. R. W. McCormick 11 4 18 3 Waite 0 0 9 0 O’Eeilly 21 8 56 5 Fleetwood-Smith .... 16 4 34 4 AUSTRALIA First Innings ,, ,, .. 242 Second Innings. Brown, lbw, b Fames .. Fingleton, lbw. b Veritv Bradman, c Verity, b Wright . . .. 16 McCabe, c Barnett, b Wright .. .. 15 Hassett, c Edrich, b Wright ., . . 33 Badcock, not out Barnett, not out .. ,, , Extras t .. Total for five wickets .. t # Bowling analysis: Fames one for 17, Bowes none for 8, Wright three for 26, v enty one for 24. Fall of wickets: One for 17, two for 30, three for 48, four for 48, 107.