Show n SiXTEEN INJURED IN AIRSHIP ACCIDENT e Trial Trip of Largest Airship Ever i Constructed Ends in a Most Frightful Disaster Ten Thousand Spectators Stand HelP less and Witness Monster Flying Machines Fall of 300 Feet All of Occupants Being Injured Oakland CalTho great Morrell airship tho largest over constructed burst on its trial trip when 300 feet In the air above a crowd of 10000 spec tators at Berkeley at 1140 oclock Saturday Tho sixteen men who mado the ascension with the big craft were dashed to the ground and every one of them more or less Im lured Broken legs and arms and In tornal Injuries were suffered by most of them and It Is believed that two will die dlTho Tho accident was a most spectacu lar one A great crowd had gathered about the vacant lot where tho big gas bag had been Inflated with 600000 cubic feet of Illuminating gaB to watch tho trial trip of tho airship Thero wore sixteen persons fivo of them engineers in charge of tho flyo gasoline engines several newspaper photographers tho Inventor of tho airship C A Morrell and an Aus trallan aeronaut Rising slowly under tho power from five gasoline engines the great aln ship lifted to a height of probably 300 feet Suddenly there was a ripping roaring sound and the forward end ofj tho airship tilted downward and It began be-gan to settle slowly to the ground Tho occupants of the airship clung desperately to the rigging while tho crowd of 10000 peoplo or more were panicstricken before what appeared to be Impending disaster to sixteen men As tho airship settled toward the ground several of the man leaped and a number were seriously injured In tho fall Others stayed with tho craft until It reached the ground and 1 they too wero injured by the heavy airship engines and the superstructure of the I |