Friday, July 19, 2013

19 July 1913

Francis L. Thayer, a parachute jumper known all over the west, was drowned July 19th, 1913 while making a descent from an aeroplane in Seattle. He jumped from a height of 750 feet and at 600 feet he broke loose and plunged into the water. He did not rise to the surface.

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