son of Joseph Reese Eidson & Frances Bray∼Name: Henry Tice Edison
Birth Date: 4 Sep 1902
Birth Place: Bowie, Texas
Gender: Male
Race: White
Residence: Dallas, Dallas, Texas
Father: Reese Edison
Mother: France Bray
Age at Death: 47
Death Date: 29 Nov 1949
Death Place: Dallas, Dallas, Texas, USA
28 DIE IN DALLAS AIRLINER WRECK
18 Survive Crash
By United Press
DALLAS, Tex., Nov. 29 - Twenty-eight persons were killed Tuesday when an American Airlines DC-6 passenger plane, doomed by engine failure, crashed and burst into flames as its pilot tried to land at Love Field before dawn.
There were 46 persons aboard. Eighteen, including plane Capt. LAURENS (TOMMY) CLAUDE and two of his fellow crewmen, escaped, even as the angry, red fire spurted through the wreck and snuffed out the lines[sic] of the trapped.
Most of the 18 who lived to tell of the crash had seats in the central-forward part of the cabin. Expert aviators said two things worked for them: the plane's speed was slowed by an initial brush with one of three buildings it ignited, and the cabin broken open, when it crashed, behind the wings, giving exit barely ahead of the fire.
Those in the rear and extreme forward sections of the cabin were either trapped or too dazed to fight their way out in the brief time they had a chance.
Henry was one of the passengers who died
son of Joseph Reese Eidson & Frances Bray∼Name: Henry Tice Edison
Birth Date: 4 Sep 1902
Birth Place: Bowie, Texas
Gender: Male
Race: White
Residence: Dallas, Dallas, Texas
Father: Reese Edison
Mother: France Bray
Age at Death: 47
Death Date: 29 Nov 1949
Death Place: Dallas, Dallas, Texas, USA
28 DIE IN DALLAS AIRLINER WRECK
18 Survive Crash
By United Press
DALLAS, Tex., Nov. 29 - Twenty-eight persons were killed Tuesday when an American Airlines DC-6 passenger plane, doomed by engine failure, crashed and burst into flames as its pilot tried to land at Love Field before dawn.
There were 46 persons aboard. Eighteen, including plane Capt. LAURENS (TOMMY) CLAUDE and two of his fellow crewmen, escaped, even as the angry, red fire spurted through the wreck and snuffed out the lines[sic] of the trapped.
Most of the 18 who lived to tell of the crash had seats in the central-forward part of the cabin. Expert aviators said two things worked for them: the plane's speed was slowed by an initial brush with one of three buildings it ignited, and the cabin broken open, when it crashed, behind the wings, giving exit barely ahead of the fire.
Those in the rear and extreme forward sections of the cabin were either trapped or too dazed to fight their way out in the brief time they had a chance.
Henry was one of the passengers who died
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