Show I THREE MEN tEN KILLED ONE BADLY INJURED Tragic Balloon Accident p at nl Germany One of the Victims a Member of the Reichstag R r STETTIN GERMANY April 3 German Gennan balloon Pommern which 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 Brueck Bruec Bruec k Herr HeiT Del Bel Brueck and another member of the party were drowned a third oc 00 occupant of the car was waa picked up un unconscious unconscious Unconscious conscious and died from his Injuries while the fourth was rescued in a serious con condition condition condition The Tha Pommern carrying Del Brueck who waa wa acting as aa pilot a banker Herr Hen an architect Herr Bon Boa BendUhn duhn and a man named Heln Hem ascended early in the tho afternoon at the gas works The wind at the time was Wall blowing i hurricane and the Pommern broke away before she had been completely bal ballasted ballasted ballasted lasted I II I Chapter of Accidents I The chapter of accidents began imme immediately The balloon collided with tele telo telegraph I graph wires which broke almost over tuning the basket It then dashed against the roof of a neighboring fac factory factory factory tory destroying the smokestack With the basket swaying swa wildly and half of its ropes cut the balloon soared to a great altitude and disappeared in the clouds at a terrific speed Thousands of onlookers including a detachment of sol soldiers soldiers soldiers diers which had assisted in the ascent ran along the roads expecting the basket to break away awa The balloon however was not seen again until it reached miles northwest of Stettin over which it passed at a height of feet in the direction of the sea se Tugs followed in its track and one of them which had outdistanced the others was almost directly under it when sud suddenly ud denly dt the tiie balloon fell felt into the sea The tug steamed to the spot quickly but the work of rescue was difficult Already Brueck and had disappeared but and hem Hoin were cling ing to the and they were dragged aboard the vessel Story of Survivor Describing their terrible experiences Herr when he had been somewhat revived said Our collision With the telegraph lines and the fac factory factory factory tory roof root had the most horrible conse conso consequences consequences Del Brueck sustained a broken brokenleg brokenleg brokenleg leg and a severe Injury of the head had an arm and leg frac fractured fractured fractured Heln Hem received bad contusions of ot the head hend I was knocked senseless but recovered in a moment to find I had bad hada bada a crushed knee and chest The network around the envelope en lope was torn in such sucha a manner that we feared fen red every second the gas bag would 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 valve the cord of ot which had be become become become come entangled We knew know not what to do but merely awaited our fate In the meantime we passed over at a great altitude and soon found ourselves above the sea We Ve thought possibly we might land in Sweden but the balloon was W s caught I in a rain claud cloud which drove us down I until we were within lO feet of at water I Del Brueck was suffering agony agon but buthe buthe buthe I he succeeded in pulling the ripping cord and we fell into the water like a II log All managed to get clear of ot the basket I with Hein Heln Hem swam and caught hold of the network hut but Del Brueck and Ben dhun sank I remembered no more until I found myself in the tho boat which rescued us I |