AIR CRASH KILLS S. A. MAN.

21 OTHERS DIE IN PLANE MISHAP.

Chicago, July 17 (AP) -- An airliner coming in low for an instrument landing at haze-shrouded Midway Airport clipped an electric sign over a gasoline station and somersaulted in flames today, killing 22 of the passengers and crew and injuring 21.
The dead included a San Antonio, Texas, Naval Reservist.
Many of the victims were Air Force and Navy reservists, en route to and from summer training camps.
On Instruments.
The pilot -- Capt. ALLEN TOBIN of Dallas, who is among the dead -- was landing on instruments because of a low fog which limited visibility to a half-mile. But the plane's course was several hundred feet too far to the right of the runway and too low.
The plane ticked against the 15-foot high electric sign above a filling station across the street from the airport, crashed through a fence and spun onto its back inside the airport, one wing ripped off and the other afire.
"There was a rush of wind," said STANLEY J. WREBEL, 36, the filling station operator. "I heard the sound of the plane ticking against our sign. A moment later the plane hit the ground, so close I thought it was in the street. There was a ball of flame, a great sound of a blast, and I thought the gasoline station was going up. A moment later I could see the airliner burning inside the airport. I guess the plane was falling out of the air when it went by our station."
The wreckage skidded nearly half a mile, to withing a few hundred yards of the airport fire station. Fast acting crash crews extinguished the gasoline flames within three minutes.
Some Die In Hospitals.
Several passengers died after they had reached hospitals. Of the remaining injured, only two were on the critical list tonight.
The two-engine Braniff Airways Convair -- flight 560 from Dalas[sic] to Chicago -- was filled to capacity.
The passengers included many college students on their was home after Air Force Reserve training at Bergstrom Air Base, Tex. There were also six Navy reservists en route to Norfolk, Va., for summer training.
Among the dead were CHESTER A. WYNNE, JR., 21, of Oak Park, Ill., a senior at Notre Dame, and TROY K. LINDSEY, an all-Oklahoma conference guard from Central State College who was to have reported to the Chicago Cardinals pro football training camp.
Stewardess Killed.
Stewardess MARY TEEL of Dallas also was killed. Co-pilot O. W. HANKS, a native of Des Moines, was seriously injured.
GEORGE BORNEMAN, 40, of suburban La Grange Park, found the body of his wife at the crash scene. He feared, his two young daughters also were dead, but after hours of searching the wreckage was notified thay had been taken to hospitals with injuries. They were returning from a visit to Austin, Tex., and BORNEMAN had gone to the airport to meet them.
Crash Dead, Injured Listed.
Chicago, July 17 (AP) -- This is a list of the identified dead and injured in the crash of a Braniff Airways plane at Chicago today:
Dead:
ALLEN TOBIN, Dallas, Tex., pilot.
MARY E. TEEL, 23, Dallas, stewardess.
Airman 1.C. LAWRENCE E. STUART, 24, Manteno, Ill.
LAURENCE H. NORTON, 49, Silver Spring, Md.
TROY LINDSEY, 23, Midwest City, Okla.
MRS. HENRIETTA BORNEMAN, 38, LaGrange Park, Ill/
CHESTER A. WYNN, JR., 21, Oak Park, Ill.
LOUIS CLARK GILLEY, 21, Wichita, Kan.
PHILIP T. VEESART, 21, Chicago.
J. A. THORNBERRY, age and address unknown.
JAMES WHIPPLE, 27, Big Spring, Tex.
GEORGE HOFFMAN, JR., 20, San Antonio, Tex.
Cpl. ROBERT L. YOUNG, Rockford, Ill.
GERALD ALLEN STARTZMAN, 18, Wichita, Kan.
CHARLES E. NUNLEY, 45, Steubenville, Ohio.
MRS. DOROTHY HANEY, 51, 3904 Wallwerth Dr., Toledo, Ohio.
Six of the victims were tentatively identified late Sunday as R. BENNING, MR. and MRS. VAN BULLIS, LEE CASTRO, ALLEN HOOD and MRS. CHARLES NUNLEY. No addresses were given.
Texans injured included:
ORVIN W. HANKS, 36, Dallas, co-pilot, compound fracture right arm, serious.
MRS. LOTTIE CLARK THOMAS, 62, Dallas, internal injuries, serious.
Pfc. GARY GLEN GOODNER, 21, Dallas, shoulder injuries.
MRS. BLANCHE ROGERS, 56, Austin, Tex., scalp cut.

San Antonio Express Texas 1955-07-18
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