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Show MlfSlfT 1 G0ME5T0 GRIEF I Gigantic Dirigible Wrecked in I German Forest; Passen- J gers Escape. jJj HIGH WIND IS CAUSE j OF FAILURE OF VOYAGE j I General Manager, Who Guided Craft, Has Not Lost Faith j I Through Accident. 1 1 I DUSSELDORF. Germany, Juno 28. 1 1 Count Zeppelin's passenger airship hH Deutschland, the grealesUof all the fam- 11 I ous aeronaut's models.ylfes tonight In the t ill! I Teutoburglan forest, pierced by pine 11$ il trees, a mass of deflated silk and twisted ! '3n aluminum. The thlrty-lhree persons I aboard the airship when It struck the H I pines aftcr a wild contest with a storm, Mm!) I escaped uninjured, climbing down from i the wreck on a rope ladder, iillulll Hcrr Colesmann, general manager of ; fltnfll the new airship company, Chief Engineer j 111 Duers of the Zeppelin company, and Cap- 1 uifll tain Wannonberg. who had churge of tho illiKnl crew of ten and twenty newspapermen, until a sailed from Dusseldorf at 8:30 o'clock this HO III morning for a three-hours' excursion. Haill Thc objective point was Dortmund, H lifjl about thirty-five miles from Dusseldorf, limHllI but a high head of wind prevailed and fl tllll an effort was made to reach Hunster, a !tnJ garrison town, so that, a landing might be IJjjjl made on the parade grounds with the aid ! Jlal of the soldiers. It was realized that It ItlUfll would require a large number of men to Ullrifl hold thc vast contrivance of silk and i 11 Jill I metal against the wind. BiUfll Powerless Against Gale. If fill In Ihe high wind one of the motors re- I Hllil fused lo work and Ihc other two did not H'ilil give sufficient power to make any head- llltul way In the gale. Thc airship drifted, ! JiKl swaying in the violent gusts and some- !flp times leaning to an angle of -10 degrees. illlrl All the while the englnemen were at ilrlilll work repairing the disabled motor. Whou rJllil this was done all four screws were driven if I tlfH I at their full power. Under normal condl- IIJJBJ lions, the engines were capable of diiv- hIUkI Ing the airship at a speed of forty miles flftr? an hour, but the helmsman was unable oil')l to keep his course and the great craft ttmni was swung about at thc mercy of the UTuvtI winds. 'Hnl Colcsman did not dare to come about nlHWl for fear of overturning and decided to HUfil drift with the gale toward Osnabruck, lIUHU also a garrison station. If he missed that iiiifil he expected to continue on to Sonne. nlllPl Suddenly he perceived a whirlwind com- H llSril Ing. and ascended to a height of nearly j nm 1000 feet lo avoid the center of It. With tilM the whirlwind game a heavy downpour of i iiltBB rain. After lijilf, an hour the Dculsch- ilillf'J land came down to permit observations. ! wllil and II was scon that tne Teuionurgian iliflsl rorest lay below. The forward motor WuBI stopped again, and Colcsman sent live lBPl of the correspondents to the aft gondola $?lfi to ballast thc vessel. nn Thrilling Experiences. Hffil The Deutschland sank rapidly, having Irnril losl much gas In Ihc high altitude, and 'lrm dragged along thc top of the d';nse for- ' ill I est. A heavy branch of a tree broke liljl through tho bottom of the cabin, amid- illll? ships, throwing two of the guests to the 'tlmul floor. Other branches ripped through ill mil I the gas compartments and the whole I 111 III great structure settled down thirty or 1 II rorty feet from the ground. t lUril "It Is not thc fault of the Zeppelin sys- H KIj tern." exclaimed Horr Colesmann, "that 'illiltll Is all right. It Is our own fault If our I'J'mfl benzine ran out." 'ilfltil Tho airship, for which Herr Coles- f lllii mann's company had Just paid $137,000. illlttl looked like a wreck. Tho frames were l ,' broken, but the motors wore not dam- i'lMlfll aged. Tho silk was ripped and had fall-n ! llfltil In a torn mass on the tops of the trees. iWjIlll Reports of disaster, explosion and j lfi death were widely spread. A parly of illTlfla officers and surgeons came by automo- M bile from Iburg and the district governor Mill and his wire arrived at the scene within IhJJ1 half an hour by special train. A com- ImHpII panv or infantry was sent from Osna- Mull bruck. nnd picketed thc wreckage. Mflll Thc disaster occurred at half-past five nffftll o'clock this afternoon. In the early part 'lliin'l of the Journev the airship maintained an ; Jlbj altitude or about 500 feet, and tho pas- lHyl scngers enjoying the new sensation, ex- JlfHll pressed contempt for the train rumbling ' JjlH down below and spoko of automobiles as NfTWl of dale. lljlfll |