CARL L. HAMILTON -1912

 

Army Airship Teacher Is Fatally Injured Carl L. Hamilton Falls Hundred Feet at College Park Chattanooga Tennessee, Daily Times, Tuesday, June 25, 1912 Transcribed by Bob Davis - August 21, 2005 Washington, June 24. - Carl L. Hamilton, of Connersville, Ind., an instructor at the United States army aviation school, College Park, Md., was perhaps fatally injured this evening in an aeroplane accident.      Hamilton was flying alone in a biplane and was up 100 feet, when the machine suddenly fell to the ground and was smashed to pieces. The aviator was pinned beneath the wreckage, but was extricated by signal corps men. He was hurried to a hospital here, where it was said his injuries might prove fatal..

 

Family of Hamilton Hear News of Accident Young Man Had Kept His Association of Birdmen Secret from Parents Chattanooga Tennessee, Daily Times, Tuesday, June 25, 1912 Transcribed by Bob Davis - August 21, 2005 Connersville, Ind., June 24. - News of the injury of Carl L. Hamilton, while driving an aeroplane near Washington, came as a double shock to his father, E. W. Hamilton, who lives near here. Young Hamilton's relatives supposed he was repairing typewriters, and were ignorant of the fact that he had entered the flying game. Relatives suppose that Hamilton sought to prevent worry by keeping his new vocation secret.

 

Carl L. Hamilton died in 1912.   Editor's Note: If you have any more information on this pioneer aviator please contact me. E-mail to Ralph Cooper

 

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