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The Dallas Morning News
DALLAS, TEXAS, SUNDAY, MAY 7, 1916--SIXTY-FOUR PAGES IN SIX PARTS--PART ONE

FAMOUS AVIATOR KILLED BY FALL YESTERDAY.
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[[photo - J. H. Worden]]
CAPTAIN J. HECTOR WORDEN.
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AVIATOR KILLED BY FALL NEAR DALLAS
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CAPTAIN J. H. WORDEN TRIES TO DO LOOP--MACHINE DROPS 2,000 FEET.
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  Unable to right his aeorplane after turning a loop, Capt. J. Hector Worden Jr., well-known aviator, plunged 2,000 feet to an instant death at Vickery Station, near Dallas, at 7:07 o'clock yesterday evening.  This was the fourth accident Captain Worden has had in the last few weeks, during which time he has been practicing aerial "stunts" in a machine he built in this city.  He escaped unhurt from two, was slightly hurt in one, and yesterday his body was crushed almost to a jelly.  Life was extinct when Dr. E. V. Herring, who had been watching the flyer, reached the machine.
  So terrific was the force of the machine that the large frame was driven fully three feet into the ground and it required the combined efforts of a dozen men to pull it from the earth.  Cylinders of the heavy engine were torn from the shaft by the impact.  Captain Worden was strapped in his seat, but his body was torn loose from its fastenings and hurled to the ground when the machine struck.