Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-10-18
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travelling at 40 miles an hour when
the accident happened
All but two of the others We're IL
Il believed, killed by the explosion OF
the gasoline tank aid probably were
dead before the wreckage reached the
earth.
The commander and the officers oil
the admiralty trial board were seat
ed in a gondola and after the nre
broke out were Gagged inside net
work or red hot aluminium Orders ana
fragments of canvas that biazed Ike
so many torches.
Two of the crew We're still alive
when dragged from the wreekage. one
OF them, however, died few minutes
later. The other, Lieut.. Baron Won
Bleul, was found to have both of his
ewes burned out and was otherwise
desperately injured. He was taken to
a hospital moaning Kill me-" Besides
the officers already mentioned, Lieu
tenant Trenk, who was second III
command, Chief Engineer Hausemanh
and three engineer secretaries from
the admiralty were on board.
The pilot, Captain Glund, was the
only civilian on board the airship. He
was the commander of the Zeppelin
balloon. which landed in France in
April, this year.
The rest of those on board were
warrant officers from the German
navy.
Engineers of the Zeppelin company
had expressed their confidence when
the IL was completed that she would
be able to cross the Atlantic.
The Zeppelin airships have been sim
gularly 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 /, III and vi met
witt. disa ster in this way, also the
Deutschland | and Ill. and now the
IL and LIZ. the first aifships attach
ed to the German navy, have gone the
same way.
MANY minor accidents have happen
ed TO other air vessel of the same
system by which numbers of soldiers
have been killed or injured
On the occasion of the last eatas-
trophe, on Sept. 3, the German EN-
psrof Is said TO have wept on hearing
the news. He had been in command
of the naval manoeuyres during the
day and the dirigible, the Ii, consid-
erede the pride OF the German navy
had been engaged in reconnaissance
work. In the evening, she was blown
away TO sea by a violent gale and
- /,
halves, many of the members of tn,
crew being inside her cabins.
A director of one of the aviation
companies at the Johannisthal aero
drome was an eye witness of the dis
aster.
II was working in my office abou
500 yards from the scene Of the acci
dent he said. when l was startled
by an explosion of extraordinary vic
leree / rushed to the window am
saw the dirigible in flames and plung
ing toward the earth. The outer GOV
ering OF the air craft had been al
ready burned off and the inner bal
loonettes containing the gas had dis
appeared.
1.-The naked aluminium frame wor
with its long center pieces, its inter
laced ribs and its tapering ends an
with the gondolas containing tn
motors beneath fell rapidly, bow fore
most. When the skeleton of the in
Y,ense craft struck the earth III
heavy gondolas buried themselves
the ground.
Il rushed Immediately to the seen
but when / arrived there was nothir
left to be done except to take out Il
dead bodies OF the victims from Il
mass Of twisted wreekage.'
Ballooning experts after studyiT
the wreckage Of the Zeppelin dirigibl