Aurora Texas 1897 — the original crashed craft story, pre-aviation

Here's what kills me about Aurora: it happened in 1897. Wright Brothers didn't fly until 1903. But on April 17, 1897, the Aurora, Texas town paper reported that an airship crashed into a windmill on a local judge's property. The editor, S.E. Haydon, wrote that the pilot's body — described as not of ……