Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-07-13
osoppsu TO THEIR DEATH
Every Bone in Their Bodies Brok-
en- and Heads Smashed
To a Pulp.
I..t Trial OF Inflated Airship
Preparatory to Using 1t for
Passenger service.

,.thlnren, Rhenish Prussia. July 10.
p.nsbe balloon Erbsloeh, recently re-
t,,.5 for passengers, was destroyed in
,s,f today through the explosion OF
bsulne tank and her inventor. Oscar
rrssloeh and his crew Of four men
dropped to their death.
The bodies Of the aviators were
,1sbtfully mangled. The gondola was
I'm 10 bits and the motor buried itself
n ne ground.
mo Victims were men well known to
m Germans Interested in aerial feats
md Erbsloeh gained an International
r,rutatlon when IN 1901 at st. Louis.
/. won the International cup In the dis
,tnce race for balloons.
MI companions were Herr Toelle, a
manufacturer OF Bremen. two engi-
lsers. Herr Kranz and Herr Hoppe,
md the mOtorman, Herr Spicke.
me Erbsloeh Was constructed last
var and had had dubious career
M first time It descended IL crashed
ro a clump Of trees and its occupants
narrowly escaped injury A few days
nd during a trial fight propeller
"a, broken. The balloon which was
o, the non-rigd type. had just been
made over preparatory to the establish
nent Of a passenger service between
Eberfeld and nearby points. Today
ID was Inflated FOR q final test The
ascent was made near optaden and
during fog.
THE ASCENT.
There we're few eyewitncsses Of the
sgcldent According 20 these the start
vas well made The Erbsloeh rose
gradually pushing It's way through the
fog to a height estimated at several
hundred yards At his altitude se-
Tie' Of eyoutions was begun.
To the onleOkers the airship APP
ptsfed 10 obey her helm perfectly. Sud
denly there wes a loud report and at
IL moment the forepart OF the vessel
csres6, ~ ssd the gondola WAS
twisted about uutil II appeared as n
';tndns On one end. A. the gas es-
taPsd nom the forward compartment,
ID, Prov swayed downward For a
na'h ne airship huttered like a wound
"a IND and then fell swiftly to earth.
Efosoeh and his companions were |
killed the second they struck the |
ground Their heads were battered in |
and every LIMB was broken
An exanination Of the wreckage
showed that tne benzine tank had |
elFH' tearing 20 shreds the rubber en-
saope directly above It. The destruc-
un q this envelope caused the bow
. collapse Tho stern compartment |
US \, SUI filled with gas when 1t struck
M ground
The death OF Erbsloeh and his com
.eilons with the destruction of the
'lo9h N which much had been
I, inllowlng closely upon the loss
! count leppelin's Deutschland has
Srsea gloom In aviation circles.
lue public had scarcely recovered
'.m me shock caused by the acct
ma death Of Charles Stewart Rolls,
"a EnsNsh aviator, when II learned
y. iLrosioeh had been added to the
" NY % Germans who had lost their
e' while balloonlng.
y, go, hrosloeh had made many dar-
\, 8, suScesstul balloon flights. In
\, tn,a au,s AeIlal race, when he won
'k.n W. ,na ai cup which had been
Ish, year before by Lieut. Frank
.nce a. S S!e Iaris' he covered a dis
mls ~ miles. Starting at ST.
ls ne landed at Ashurg Park n 7
sen, ~ ttner from the point of
Iah,. .nah ms nearest competitor,
Esrh an. OF France. who came down
rh,stoertsyllle. n j.
t,iusloeh on that occasion nilo,od ,ho
,Iloon Pommern. ''" pi'o'ed the
VI FEBRUARY 1903 Erbsloeb r,oao
-. s SADIE balloon trip across tho
49, M balloon. the Berlin. remainoa
arirnnD, .,, .ol So hours, showing a
q svsra, o'u,ude Of about $4,000 feet.
'grees belo., lIerature OF about IL
u 10 10 d.' zero was experienced.
lied sine e. age me roll Of aviators
h july - ~ ~ a.; 1908, stood at 10.
: re-, G Rheims, France. Yos,erda,.
I Rolls az a., .sNnan Charles Stew
nls aernplnne =" tne Wreckage