Show SIXTEEN INJURED IN AIRSHIP ACCIDENT trial trip of largest airship eve Evey constructed ends in a most frightful disaster ten thousand spectators stand help less leas and witness monster flying machines fall of feet all of occupants being injured oakland cal tho the great morrell morrel airship tho the largest ever constructed burst on its trial trip when feet 11 lii the air above a crowd of 0 biec pec gators tatora at Der berkeley keley at 1140 saturday the sixteen ell men who made the ascension with the big craft were dashed to the ground and very every one of them more or less injured broken legs and arms arm armmand sand and ln in injuries were suffered by most moat of them and it Is believed that two will die the accident was a most spectacular one A great crowd had gathe gatherer gathered about the vacant lot where the big gas bag had been inflated with cubic feet of illuminating gas td watch the tha trial trip of tho the airship there were sixteen persons five ol of them engineers in charge of tile the five garoune engines several newspaper photographers the inventor of tho the airship C A marroli Mor roll roli and an aus aeronaut rising slowly under the power from five gasoline gaso llna engines tho the great airs ship chip lifted to a height of probably feet suddenly there was a ripping roaring sound and the forward end of the tilted downward and it began to settle slowly to the ground the occupants of tho the airship clung desperately to the rigging while the crowd of people or more were panic stricken before what appeared to be impending disaster to sixteen men As the airship settled toward the ground several of the man leaped and a number were seriously injured in the fall others stayed with the craft until it reached the ground and they too were injured by the heavy engines and the superstructure of tile the airship |