Show AIRSHIP BURNED HOPES BLASTED Explosion of Benzine Destroys the Wonderful Machine of Count Zeppelin Z JOY TURNED INTO GRIEF HOME PEOPLE WERE WAITING TO WELCOME INVENTOR e Stuttgart Aug 5 During a storm today the Zeppelin airship was destroyed by an explosion of at benzine Several persons were in injured f Count Zeppelin however is safe Aug 5 The that Count Zeppelins airship exploded at nt and was a total wreck came like a thunderbolt amid the fes festive festive tive preparations for lor a reception of ot the i famous aeronaut at Tens of ot thousands of ot people had come from all aU parts of at Germany German to witness I Ithe the return of ot the count from his re remarkable remarkable in the air and they were walking up and down the wide main street of or this town along the lake lakeshore lakeshore shore and making merry in anticipation tion of at the forthcoming jollification Since early morning automobiles and carriages had been coming Into town and speeding through the streets whilst peasants from the surrounding country clad In their picturesque Sunday clothes clothe gazed in amazement at the unwonted scene cene and the gaily gall decorated houses In hi Inthe hithe the park parle News of the Disaster In front of the principal hotel the military band was just on the point of oC beginning Its concert when at 4 a man rushed excitedly from the theoffice theoffice office of or a local newspaper and affixed a telegram on the blackboard at the entrance to the building I IA A crowd of ot D gathered to read the news expecting to hear that the airship had left Echterdingen on Its way wa here One man began to read the message aloud Suddenly he stopped as asIf asIt If It he could not believe the news then cried out The balloon was burned the balloon was burned Wild Excitement This Intelligence traveled like wild wildfire wildfire fire down the main street Some people would not believe bellee It and declared that It was a bad Joke but the doubters were noon silenced by the pitiful ex expressions expressions on the faces of the of Count Zeppelin who rushed about with every evidence of oC consternation Many curses went up from the dense crowd congregated around the es 9 of the count and the people demanded to know If It he was safe They were told he was but the latest bulletin from Echterdingen said that four men had been badly burned Maybe some ras rascal rascal cal set the th balloon on fire some one volunteered excitedly and this proba probability probability was discussed for some moments Throughout the crowd there were fre tre frequent quent expressions of ot sorrow over the II luck of oC Count Zeppelin In the loss of at athis his magnificent airship Just then the counts countR daughter ar arrived rived in her carriage she still being In Ignorance of oC the end of oC her fathers voyage and of ot the blasting at a t least for fora a time of or his greatest ambition A hush fell feU over the masses as the count countess ess alighted and In wonderment at their strange attitude toward her she wept went inside her fathers office Soon afterward she was heard to cry That will kill him This was followed ton owed by an outburst of ot sobbing and the people pe who had been loitering about the building silently moved away awn some distance to get be beyond yond ond hearing of ot her distressful cries Explosion of Benzine The next message received from the scene of oC the disaster said that a thun thunderstorm thunderstorm upset a quantity of ot benzine which ignited and caused a great ex explosion and that the great airship was destroyed After reading this bulletin the people moved in long lines down the streets of ot the town toward the railroad station and the steamship docks along the lake lakefront lakefront front while automobiles scurried off otI in all direction some of or them even een head headIng headIng Ing for Echterdingen The music of ot the bands was hushed and the musicians silently packed away their Instruments while the villagers immediately began besan taking down the flags and festoons which had been hung In honor of ot the expected homecoming o of the daring aeronaut and his wonderful Invention |