U.S. AIR DISASTER
THREE 1 PLANES CRASH
12 PERSONS KILLED
(Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) VANCOUVER, Dec. 25. Twelve deaths as the result of aeroplane accidents marred Christmas. Floyd Delong disappeared in the rugged country between Elko, Nevada, and Mountain City. Aboard tho piano were three children who had visited Elko to participate in the funeral of a school chum. Rescue planes found all dead where the plane crashed on a hillsid'e in snow-clad country. Russell Riggs, a veteran air mail pilot, crashed "on the mountainside in a snowstorm in the Tennessee mountains.
Hope is abandoned for the seven occupants of another aeroplane which fell into the Gulf of California between Mazatlan and La Paz. The dead include Dr. Spaeho, engineer for the construction of the great ocean piers of La Paz.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18589, 27 December 1934, Page 5
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