A heavy fog hung over Kansas fields near Emporia one morning last week as Edward Baker, farm boy of Bazaar, set forth to feed his cattle. Along about ten o'clock he heard an explosion, then a crash. Soon afterward, in a nearby pasture, Edward Baker came upon the flaming carcass of a ten passenger Fokker of the Transcontinental & Western Air line. Its eight occupants lay dead or dying. . . .
Thus came Death to Knute Kenneth Rockne, famed 43-year-old coach of Notre Dame University's football team. Coach Rockne had boarded the...
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