Flyer's Body Brought Here for Burial

"Flyer's Body Brought Here for Burial." n.p., [9 May 1919].

The body of Ensign Hugh J. Adams, who was killed last Monday at Rockaway Beach, L. I., along with Chief Machinist Mate H. B. Corey, of Binghamton, N. Y., when their seaplane fell, arrived in Pittsburg this morning and was at once taken to his home, 216 Goodrich street, North Side.

Tomorrow afternoon a military funeral will be accorded the dead naval officer, a guard of honor having been sent from the Rockaway Beach naval air station by Lieut. Commander Cabeniss. [Two] hundred blue jackets and naval airmen will march to Uniondale cemetery, from Central Presbyterian church, Sandusky street, North Side, where the funeral services will be held.

The funeral arrangement are in charge of Commander Denny, who has gathered together a number of naval officers who are in Pittsburg, and a number of sailors, to pay the last honors to Ensign Adams.

The accident which resulted in the death of Ensign Adams and Chief Machinists' Mate Corey occurred at 4:08 o'clock last Monday, just eight minutes after the machine which Ensign Adams piloted went into the air.

It was witnessed by several hundred persons including most of the officers and enlisted personnel of the station. Adams was considered one of the crack aviators of the naval service and had just completed what is known as "high bank figure 8," when the machine went into a spiral nose dive and crashed into the huge hydrogen tank which is used to inflate naval dirigibles. The machine was less than 200 feet in the air when it went into the fatal spiral nose dive.

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