Jasper County MO Archives News.....THREE DIE AS PLANE CRASHES AT TULSA, OKLA May 27, 1930 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/mo/mofiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: William (Bill) Samuel BOGGESS http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00024.html#0005917 February 27, 2009, 2:01 am Associated Press Release In Several Natioal Newspapers, Including Jefferson City Post-Tribune May 27, 1930    THREE   DIE   AS        PLANE   CRASHES            AT   TULSA, OKLA.            ~~~~~     Two Young Missourians    Victims of Strange Acci-        dent Last Night            ~~~~~        BURNED BEYOND              RECOGNITION                    ~~~~~        Had   Made Night Flight    Over   City   and   Returned            To   Airfield.                      ~~~~~ Tulsa, Okla, May 27---(AP)---     Crashing as the pilot was landing on the lighted Garland airport, an airplane carrying Miss Ursa Ball, 28, of Tulsa, and Robert Hammond, 21, and George S Busboom, both of Carthage, Mo. Fell 50 feet here last night and burned killing the trio.     Bodies of the victims were seared beyond recognition. A half hour was required to extricate them from the smouldering wreckage. Friends of the three persons who had accompanied them to the field for the night flight witnessed the accident.     Busboom, a marble quarry owner, proprietor of the plane, and Hammond, his pilot accompanied by E J Peters, Tulsa marble dealer, flew here yesterday afternoon from Carthage. The ship was left at the field for some minor repair work. About 11:00 o'clock, Busboom and Hammond, accompanied by several friends, returned to the field and had the motor warmed up for a night flight above Tulsa.     Attendants at the [Garland] airport said the plane, after flying low over the city, returned above the field, dipped as if to land, and then zoomed over a hanger before falling.     The reason for the crash was unknown.     Two student fliers, both of Tulsa, also were injured yesterday in a fall near here. Paul Van Pelt suffered a broken back and other injuries and A M Hicks was less seriously hurt when their ship crashed from an altitude of about 250 feet.         Prominent at Carthage   Carthage, Mo, May 27--(AP)   In the death of George S Busboom, who with Robert Hammond and Miss Ursa Ball. was killed in the crash of an airplane at Tulsa last night, Carthage lost one of its most prominent citizens.     Busboom, who was president of the Carthage Marble Corporation, a $5,000,000 concern, came to Carthage three years ago from Fairbury, Neb. He is survived by a widow and one daughter, Margaret, 5-years-old.     Hammond, who was about 21 years old, came here only a few months ago from a small town near St Louis. He was granted a limited commercial pilot's license last week and had about 175 hours flying time to his credit.       Additional Comments: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~   1927 the Carthage Marble Corporation purchased and consolidated the F.W. Steadley and Company, Lautz-Missouri Marble Company, Carthage Marble and White Lime Company, Consolidated Marble and Stone Company, Spring River Stone Company and Carthage Marble Building Stone Company into one major producer.  Carthage Marble would grow to become the largest marble quarrying and finishing concern west of the Mississippi River. The above George S Busboom is George J Busboom, born about 1898 in Nebraska, who with brothers were stone and brick masons, married Margaret Muriel Haight of DuBois, Nebraska about 1922 in Nebraska. They are listed in Los Angeles county, Califorina and Jasper county, Missouri on the U S census of 1930. George Busboom's widow, Muriel Margaret (Haight) Busboom, of 1218 south Maple street, married widower Luke J Boggess (1899MO-1974MO) in Carthage, Missouri 6 April 1932 and died in Carthage 25 April 1983 at her home, 615 east Euclid avenue leaving a daughter, Mary Margaret (Busboom) Miller (1924NE-1992MO), wife of Joseph H Miller, one granddaughter Mikel Margaret (Miller) Cole and three great,grandchildren, Lisa, Eddie and Michael Allen Cole, and two step-sons, L Jack Boggess (1924NE-2001OR), married with three children and Willam Samuel Boggess, single. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mo/jasper/newspapers/threedie3nw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/mofiles/ File size: 4.3 Kb