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AMERICAN OFFICER KILLED.
PASSENGER'S NARROW ESCAPE
(Received June 22, 5.5 p.m.)
New York, June 21
Ensign BJllingsley fell 1600 feet from an aeroplane in mid-air': into Chesa-. peake Bay. His body has not been found. Lieutenant Towers, who was a passenger, clung to the machine, and was carried under the water. He rose to the surface and was rescued in a state of nervous collapse. The machine overturned in mid-air, throwing Ensign Billingsley out.
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Colonist, Volume LV, Issue 13756, 23 June 1913, Page 5
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74AMERICAN OFFICER KILLED. Colonist, Volume LV, Issue 13756, 23 June 1913, Page 5
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