Arizona republican., 1910-06-29
LODGED IN A FOREST
Passengers Climbed Down Unhurt-Disastrous End ing of Journey Delight fully Begun, After Battle With a Whirlwind

Dusseldorf. Germany, June 2S.--
 Count Zeppelin's passenger airship, the Deutschland, the greatest of all the
 famous aeronaut's models. lies tonight in the Teutoburgian forest. pierced by
 pine trees, a mass of deflated silk and twisted aluminium. The thirty three passengers aboard the airship when it struck the pines after a wild contest with the storm, escaped uninjured climbing down from the wreck on rope ladder.
 Herr Colesmann, general manager of the new airship company; Chief En- gineer Duers of the Zeppelin company, and Captain Wannenberg, in charge of the crew of ten. and twenty newspa- permen sailed from Dusseldorf at s: 30 this morning on a three hours excur- sion, the objective point Dortmund, thirty-five miles from Dusseldorf, but high wind prevailed and an effort was made to reach Munster, a garri- son town. so that the landing might be made on the parade ground with the aid of soldiers. In the high wind, one of the motors refused to work and the other two did not give sufficient power to make any headway in the gale.
 The airship drifted, swaying in vio- lent gusts and sometimes leaning at an angle of forty degrees, All the while the enginmen were at work repairing the disabled motor When this was done all four screws were driven at full power Under normal conditions the engines were capable of driving the airship at a speed of forty miles an hour, but the helmsman was unable to keep his course and the craft swung about at the mercy of the winds.
 Colesmann did rot dare come about for fear of overturning, and he decided to drift with the gale toward Osnabruck, also a garrison town.
 If he missed that he expected to continue to Senne. Suddenly he per ceived a whilwind coming and he as- cended to ar height of nearly 1000 feet to avoid the center of it. With the whirlwind came a heavy downpOur of rain
 After half an hour the Deutschland came down to permit observations and it was seen that the Teutoburgian for est lay below. The fowar1 motor stopped again and Colesmann sent five correspondents to the aft gondola to ballast the vessel.
 The Deutschland sank rapidly, hay ing lost much of it's gas in the high altitude, and dragged along the top of the forest. The heavy branch of a tree broke through the bottom of the cabin amidships. throwing two guests to the floor Other branches ripped through the gas compartments and the whole great structure settled down within thirty or forty feet from the ground.
 system" exclaimed Herr Colesmann; it is our fault; our benzine ran out"
 The airship. for which Herr Coles 1 mann's company had just paid $137 500, ! looked like a wreck The frames were | broken, but the motors were not dam | aged. The silk was ripped and had i fallen in a torn mass on the tops of ! the trees.
 Reports of disaster explosion and death were widely spread A party of | officers and surgeons came by auto | from Iburg and the inventor and his | wife arrived at the scene within half | an hour by special train. A company | of infantry was sent from Osnabr1ck | and picketed the wreckage
 The disaster occurred at 5:3O D. m | In the carly part of the journey the | airship maintained an altitude of about | 800 feet, and the passengers enjoyed | the new experience expressed contempt | for the train rumbling below and spoke | of autos as out of date