Seventeen persons were killed nea here to-day as a luxury" passeng? plane of the "American "Airline crashed to earth. The disaster, apparently caused " by engine-trouble, was the first major American air acident in several months.
The dead included fourteen passengers and three members of the crew. They were Mrs. Samuel Horowiz, Mrs. B. Horowitz and Seba Horowitz, S-year-old girl, all of Ros ton; Mr. Julius Cohn, of Los Angeles Mr. Charles Althchul, of Gle Cal; Mr. F. C. Hart, of New York City; Mrs. J. S. Gremitlion, of Knox~ ville, Tenn; Mr. R.A. MeNalr and Mr. 'W. R.. Dyes, of Little Rock, Ark; Mr. Sam' Schwartz, of Atlanuic City, Na-Mr. W. S. Hardwick and Mr. A.D. Chermus, both of Memp! Mr, 'M. Porter, of Philadelphia; Mr. H, W, Plate, of Laredo, Tex.; the plot fof the plane Mr. Jerry Marshall; the fcc-pilot, Mr. Glenn "Freeland, and the. stewardess, Miss Perla Gasp: ini, the larier three of Fort Worth, Tex'—United Press Alexandria, Jan. 15, Keen questioning by the Coroner concerning the time which elapsed before n search was made for the City of Kharlour, the illfared Imperial 'Airways! liner which plunged into the'
near Alexandria on December 31 with a folal loss of twelve lives, was the main feature of the resumed inquest on the victims here to-day.
Mr, MeMecking, who was super~ Intendent of the air base here on the right of the disaster, slated that he was told at 8 p.m. that the flying-boat had not yet landed. He went to the Janding stage to see whether there were any signs of the machine, and then returned to his amice and asked LieutComdr, St, J. A, Micklethwait, of the destroyer "Beagle, who was wailing fo meet a passenger travelling by the "airliner, to put to sea for a search. This Was at about 815 p.m, about an hour after the accident, The Commander-In-Chief of the British Fleet at 052 pin, gave permission to It-Comdr, Mickiethwalt to ut to seo, 'The Beagle started at 0.35 o'clock. 'The delay was occasioned by a desire to obtain the latest Information from the pilot of an Imperial Airways' plane which had just arrived, The crash occurred while the City of Khartoum was proceeding Alexandria from Crete, Mr. V. G. Wilson, the pilot and lone survivor, was rescued by a British warship after having been in the water six hours, Of the twelve victims, eight died from fractured skulls and three others were drowned, The body of the twelfth victim was not recovered.—Reuter,
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