Newspapers - Dead Sill Aviator - Logan County, Oklahoma 

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The Guthrie Daily Leader
February 9, 1918

Dead Sill Aviator Member Rite Class

Lieut. Dudley Loomis, who was burned to death when his airplane fell at
Fort Sill, Thursday evening, was a member of the first soldiers consistory
class in Guthrie.  Loomis and Lieut. Feftin Stamps were trying out their
machine on the aerial ground near Sill.  The machine took a nose dive from
a height of 500 feet and burst into flames as it struck the ground.  Both
men were killed and their bodies were burned beyond recognition.  Loomis
came from Missouri.