| Show T THREE REE MEN IEN lULLED KILLED V ONE BADLY Tragic at Stettin n I Germany One of tIle the Victims a Member of the Reichstag R GERMANY April 3 German balloon Pommern which STETTIN S made an ascension here this afternoon met with a series of acci accidents accidents accidents dents which ended in a disaster in the Baltic Sea under most tragic cir circumstances circumstances circumstances Three men lost their lives including ding the radical member of the Reichstag Werner Hugo Del Bruce Brueck k Herr Heir Del Brueck and another member of the party were drowned a third o oc occupant of the car was waa picked up un unconscious unconscious tin conscious and died from his injuries while the fourth was rescued in a serious con condition condItion condition The Pommern carrying Del Do Brueck who was acting as pilot a banker Herr an architect Herr Ben Benduhn Benduhn duhn and a man named Heln Hem ascended a early in the afternoon at the gas works The wind at the time was blowing iS i and the Pommern broke away before she had been completely bal hal ballasted ballasted lasted Chapter of Accidents The chapter of accidents began imme immediately immediately immediately The balloon collided with tele telegraph telegraph graph wires which broke almost over I I tuning the basket then dashed I against the roof of t neighboring fac factory factory factory tory destroying the sm With the basket swaying wildly and half of ot I its ropes cit the balloon bathon soared to a great altitude and disappeared in the tho i clouds cloude at a terrific speed Thousands of onlookers including a detachment of sol aol soldiers soldiers I diers tiers which had assisted in the ascent ran along the roads expecting the basket to break away The balloon however I was not seen again until it reached miles northwest of Stettin over which it passed at a height of oC feet in the dir tion of the sea Tugs followed in its track and one of them which had outdistanced the others was almost almOt directly under it when sud sod suddenly sudden I denly den the balloon fell into the sea The tug steamed to the pot spot quickly but hut the work of rescue was difficult Already Braeck Brueck and had disappeared rd but and Heln Hem were wore cling ing tog to the ropes rapes and they were dragged aboard the vessel Story of Survivor Describing their terrible experiences Herr Bert when he had been somewhat revived said Our collision With the telegraph lines and the fac factory factory factory tory roof had the most horrible conse conso consequence quence Del Brueck sustained a broken brokenleg brokenleg brokenleg leg and a severe injury of the head had bad an arm and leg frac fractured fractured fractured Hein Heln Hem received bad contusions of or orthe the head I was knocked senseless but recovered in a moment to find I had hada liada a crushed knee and chest The network around the envelope was torn in such sucha a ft manner that we feared every second the gas bag would sUp slip out and we would crash to the earth from a height of feet to which we had ascended like a flash Del Brueck in spite of his awful condition vainly endeavored to open the tho valve the cord of which had lund be conic comp entangled We knew not what to do but merely awaited our fate In the tho meantime we passed over oer at a great altitude and soon found ourselves above the sea We thought possibly we might land in Sweden but the balloon was caught in a rain cloud claud which drove us down until we were within ISO feet of ot water Del Brueck was suffering agony agon but buthe buthe buthe he succeeded in pulling the ripping cord and we fell into the water Tater like a log All managed man Reed to get clear of the tile basket I with Hem Hein swam and caught hold of the network but Del Brueck and Ben dhun sank I remembered no more until I found myself in the boat which rescued us I |
