The Archive · 1930

The Southern Cross Given to Backer

Santa Maria, Cal., July 9

Wing - Comminder - Kingsfdrd mith arrived here -to-day in the Southern Cross, which he presented to Mr. Gallen Hancock, the backer of his Pacific Aight.

The Southern Cross will be ex-

The only ones who were saved! were three passengers who wore] Standing un the platform of the tram when the disaster occurred. They were picked up from the water suffering nothing worse than shock at_their sudden immersion.

The tram should have crossed by a two section time of the accident.

It is believed that the driver, his vision obscured by the heavy fog ing, did not see that the]

ige was open and ran the tram straight into the river.

The three passengers who were saved were standing on the rear platform of the tram when if hurtled

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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