The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1913-10-28
ENTIRE GERMAN ADMIRALTY
TRIAL BOARD AMONG THOSE
SLAIN ~ BLAST.
THREE OTHERS DIE IN FALLS
Baron Won sIeuI, the Only Survivor,
With Both Eyes Burned Out, eees
to Be Shot by Reseuers-Thoussnds
Witness Disaster.

Berlin. Oct 2O.-The newest OF the
Zeppelin war airships, the LIZ, was de-
stroyed In midair by an explosion on
Friday. All but one OF the twenty
eight military men were killed.
Tie twenty eight represented the
entire personnel of the admiralty
board which was conducting the final
trial of the dirigible looking to It's &C
ceptance by the government as a new
unit Of the German aerial navy, the
pilot and crew and invited guests.
Every person that went aloft In the
big airshlp is dead.
Twenty-seven were killed almost in
stantly by the explosion of the gas in
the balloonettes or burned to death as
the flaming wreck fell to the ground
from a height of 900 feet.
One man, Lieutenant Baron Won
Bleul of the Queen Augusta Grenadier
Guards, guest of the admiralty
twisted wreckage. His eyes were
burned out and he suffered other ter.
rible hurts. Begging his rescuers to
kill him and end his sufferings, he was
taken to a hospital, where he died at
night.
The official report OF the accident
says the explosion was due to the ig-
milton OF gas in or above the forward
gondola, but not within the body OF
the airship.
The navy was not the only sufferer
OF the day through aviation accidents.
Three army officers we're killed in
aeroplane flights.
Emperor William, in a telegram to
the minister of marine, voiced public
sentiment concerning the accident by
saying:
The sorrow over what has hap
pened, l am convinced, will only be a
spur to renewed exertions to develop
so important an aerial weapon into a
trustworthy implement of war"
The newspapers reflect the emper-
or's belief that there should be no re.
Taxation in the Efforts to supply Ger.
many with an adequate aerial feet.
The total dead:
Lieutenant Bernisch, commander
and head of admiralty trial board con-
Quoting the final trial OF the LIZ at a
speed of forty miles an hour.
Captain Glund, one of Zeppelin's vet
eran dirigible pilots.
Lieutenant Freyer, commander OF
the airship's crew and favorite OF the
Sssszs. -------zs -
Lieutenant Baron Won Bleul, CUES;
on airship; rescued alive, but died In
hospital
Lieutenant Trenk. second In com,
mand.
Neumann and Pietzler. naval con.
structors.
Hanssman. chief engineer.
Busch. naval engineer, former navi.
gator OF the imperial yacht HohenzoL
lern.
Nineteen members of the admiralty
board and the LES crew.
Captain Iaessler. member Of the
army navigation corps; killed when
aeroplane landed in tree top neat, Bres.
lau.
Lieutenant Koch. killed in fall of
Rcroplane near Wurzburg.
Sergeant Mantle. fell with Lieuten.
ant Koch.
The airship disaster occurred above
the main street Of the city of Johan.
nlsthal, while the big dirigible was
making trial trip preliminary to its
acceptance as flagship Of the new Ger
man aerial navy. The shattered hulk
OF the airship, a mass Of blazing can.
vas and crumpled aluminium. dropped
900 feet into the public highway.
Hundreds Of people who had been
watching the flight from parks and
housetops rushed to the scene There
was nothing to be done except to take
the bodies Of the victims out OF the
mass Of twisted wreckage.