The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-09-04
DEAD REMOVED
TO M0RGUE AT
BELLE VALLEY
Commandery Zachary Lans.
dOwne Will Be Laid to
Rest in Arlington
GUARDS HOLD CROWDS
Dirigible Collapsed in Air
Cyclone at Altitude of
5000 Feet
GUARDS HOLD CROWDS
Caldwell. O.. Sent. 4NAP)

Caldwell. O.. Sept. 4SAP)
On gently sloping hillsides,
some twelve miles apart,
winds today whipped through
Tapping yards of torn silk and
twisted and broken aluminium
of the cracked Shenandoah,
until yesterday proud mis-
tress of the skies and pride of
the U. S. Navy. What remains
of the only American built
dirigible. which met disaster
in a thunder squall, near here
early yesterday morning, was
being broken up by the wind,
much the same as an ocean
going ship aground is broken
by the waves.
Fourteen dead members of
the crew, including Lieuten-
ant Commander Zachary
Lansdowne, lay in an impro-
vised morgue in Belle Valley,
their faces uncovered to the
view of the visiting hundreds.
Survivors Number %
Twenty-Five of the surviv-
,ors are en- route to Lakehurst,
N. j., the airport from
whence the Shenandoah en-
barked Wednesday afternoon
for her voyage into the heart
of the continent. Three of the
officers and two of the crew
spent last night in Caldwell,
where they were Joined by
Naval officers from Cincin-
natl, Cleveland and Pitts
burgh. Two injured members
of the crew are in a Marietta
hospital.
After last night a guard was
thrown around the approaches
to the wreckage in a belated
effort to stem the tide of curl
Gus visitors who had thronged
the scene by thousands from
early yesterday through last
midnight.
Caldwell, Ohio. Sept. 4.-(P)-Air
rushing through the holes torn in
the Shenandoah by twisting off the
radio and control cabins caused the
buckling of the ship and its breaking
up into two major parts, in the opin-
ion of the naval board Of investiga-
tion that visited wreckage Of the
ships prov today.
Swapping of. guy wires at the same
time that The cabins we're torn away
in the gale, also served to weaken
the structure.
The stress upon the hull of the
ship by its rolling and rising and
falling in the wind and electric
storm are believed responsible for
the wrenching loose of the cabins.
Visit Wreck
Commander S. M. Kraus. Com
mander G. Fulton, Lieutenant Com
mander VIM. Nelson and c. P. Ber-
ges. expert technicist on airship
construction, all of Lakehurst. N. j..
visited the wreckage Of the ships
nose in company with Lieutenant 4.
G.. Mayer, one of the survivors who
from where the tail and mid-section
fell.
In discussing the crash it was
agreed among the inquirers that
nothing could have apprehended the
disaster except. perhaps. greater
speed, to get away from such a gale.
Technicist Burgess said that ships
had not been devised capable of at
tanning a speed sufficient to have
served the purpose, however.
Plight Hopeless
Nothing could have saved the d.
rigible in its battle with the storm.
according to the consensus of all
members of the crew. Neither was
it any fault of the ship, in their
opinion. The disaster was the result
Of the most feared storms known to
an aviator, line squall, the result
Of the clash Of hot and cold cur
rents of air.
Lieutenant Charles E. Rosendahi,
who came into command of the crew
after the death Of Lieutenant Com
manders Lansdowne and Louis j.
Hancock, declared that nothing could
have saved the Shenandoah and that
human hands could not have fash
ioned ship to live through the or
deal.
Hold Inquest
Commander J. H. Klein, executive
officer Of the Lakehurst, N. j., air
station, with two other officers Of
the United States navy were to hold
inquests here and at Belle Valley
to determine the cause Of death.
Looting at the scenes of disaster
which was so prevalent yesterday,
will be prevented today by detail
of 45 men and . number Of officers
from Fort Hayes, Columbus. Amcri-
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