MAN'SHEAD SPLIT OPEN
BY BALLOON PROPELLER SHOCKING SCENE AT ASCENT IN ROME. SPECTATORS INVADE INCLOSURE 3y Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received November 3, 0.0 a.m.) ROME, November 2. A terrible fatal accident occurred here yesterday while the military airship Rome was being given a trial flight before a large'crowd of spectators. The balloon was just beginning to ascend when tho crowd commenced to close in, and an officer, Lieutenant Rovetti, in endeavouring to keep the too-curious people back, came in contact with the propeller. This was revolving at high speed, and the blades split tho officer’s head open, so that death resulted instantaneously.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 6965, 3 November 1909, Page 5
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101MAN'SHEAD SPLIT OPEN New Zealand Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 6965, 3 November 1909, Page 5
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