The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-17
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| they extricated the last of the bodies
of the victims. The dead were borne
on stretchers to the balloon hall and
a company of soldiers roped off the
place to keep back the crowd.
| The six inmates of the center gon-
dola had been blown through the sides
of the car by the first explosion and
| their bodies fell a quarter of mile
away from the wreck of the balloon,
which was travelling at forty miles an
hour when the accident happened.
! All the others, except two, were ap-
parently killed by the explosion of the
gasoline tank, and We're probably dead
before the wreckage reached the earth.
The commander and members of the
admiralty trial board were seated in
the officers gondola. After the fire
! broke out they were Gagged inside
net work of red hot girders.
Two of the crew were still alive when
/ rescuers reached the wreckage. One
OF them, however, died before he was
extricated. The other, Lieutenant
Baron Won Bleul, was desperately in
Jured. Both his eyes were burned out.
lie urged the reScuerS to kill him.
Besides the officers mentioned Lieu
tenant Trenk, who was second in COM
mand, Chief Engineer Haussmann and
three engineer secretaries from the adj
m1ralty board were killed. The pilot
captain Glund was the only civilian on
board the airship. He was the COM
mander of the Zeppelin balloon which
landed in France in April this year.
The rest of those on board were Off
GERS of the German navy.
the engineers. of the Zeppelin COM
pany had expressed, their confidence
when the LIZ was completed, that she
would be able to cross the Atlantic.
Ihe a1rsh1p carried two tons of gas
oline. Baron Won Bliul at a late hour
this afternoon was still alive.
he
singularly unfortunate ever since their
invention by the aged soldier-count.
No fewer than seven of them have been
destroyed by fire, explosion or wreck.
Zeppelins l., II and vi. DeutschlandS
I and III and now the Ii and LIZ the
first big airships attached to the Ger
man navy have met with disaster in
this way Many minor accidents have
happened to other air vessels of the
same type, involving a large list of
killed or injured
On the occasion of the last catastro-
phe September 9, the German emperor
was said to have wept on hearing the
news. He had been in command of
the naval maneuvers during the day
and the dirgible LII, the pride of the
German navy, had been engaged in
reconnaissance work. In the evening
lent gale. When she struck the water
she broke in half and sank.
Three Army AviatOrS Killed.
Berlin, Oct. 17.-Not only the Ger
man navy but the army as well suf-
fered from accidents today. Three army |
officers belonging to the flying corps !
were killed this morning in aeropIane |
accidents.
Captain Haeseler Lieutenant Koch |
and Sergeant Mantle, all of the German |
army aviation corps, were the victims |
of the fatal aeroplane accidents, which |
occurred early this morning. Captain |
Haeseler accompanied by Lieutenant !
Won Freyberg, and Lieutenant Koch, |
accompanied by Sergeant Mantle, lett |
Derling last night with instructions to |
fly TO points in Sflesia and Bavaria re- |
spectively to deliver military messages. |
The motor of Captain Haeseler's aero |
plane broke down when the aviators |
We're in the vicinity of Breslau. Cap |
tain HaeSeler endeavored to make an |
landing in the darkness. |
The aeroplane settled in a tree top and |
Captain Haeseler was pinned beneath |
the motor with an arm and both legs |
broken. His companion, Lieutenant |
Freyberg, was not injured. He clam |
bored down and secured help but af-
ter endeavoring for several hours with |
assistance to extricate his companion, |
the gasoline tank of the aeroplane ex-
ploded and Captain Haeseler was burn
ed to death.
Lieutenant Koch ana Sergeant Mantle |
fell with their aeroplane near Wuerz-
burg. Both were instantly killed