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Show "Then I drove them to Bcau- vais." : Survivor Sneaks-Arthur Sneaks-Arthur Disley, radio operator, told a thrilling story of hia fight for life. "I was lying in bed in the dark," he said, "not sleeping because I thought I might be needed if the storm kept up. When I felt the buffeting of the storm I sought to turn on the light switch. But before be-fore I could, reach it I was blinded by a brilliant flash and I was stunned. Then I tried to reach safety, but there was no window. I threw myself against the fabric and used everything teeth, fingernails, finger-nails, everything in an effort to rip it.' My fingers were bleeding from the effort. t "Finally, after I had been unsuccessful, unsuc-cessful, I thought the end was near ! and I got to my knees to pray, j Then I seemed to fall through the j bottom of the ship how I don't ! know and I felt the wet grass under me. Above was an inferno." i EYEWITNESS TELLSJTORY Sees Airship Make , Fatal Flunffe; Heat Prevents Any Rescue Work. ALLONK. FRANCE, Oct. 6 r.P The fatal plunge of the airship R-101 was witnessed by an Englishman, Eng-lishman, George Darling, who lives near Beauvais. Kye Witness Talks-Darling Talks-Darling described the. efforts of the giant ship to stay aloft, the crash, and the work of rescue while the wreckage blazed, as follows: fol-lows: "I saw the airship from, my home and could tell from its weird contortions that it had lost a fine or encountered some other trouble. "I ran to my automobile and raced it across the fields In -the course of the airship. "I rfeahed the woods the minute the ship crashed. Out of the flames I saw three persons dashing as though mad. (Later it developed these three were Harry Leech, Arthur Bell and Joseph Binks, engineers). en-gineers). They were suffering intensely in-tensely from burns but werj trying try-ing to return to the flames to help the others. "In vain I attempted to pull them back, but they broke away and ran to the front of the ship. It looked like madness but I followed them. Heat Intense "We smashed our way into the forward cabin and found it undamaged un-damaged but without an occupant. Oddly enough there was a clock still running. "Desptte the terrible heat, vhich made all of us gasp for breAth, the trio sought repeatedly to cut into the blazing wreckage. Through a window we saw one nan seeking' to escape from his ;abin. Ffve times we tried to get o him and five times we failed. Finally we saw the flames overtake over-take him. "Even as we chased about there came another explosion or two. How many I don't know. It was difficult to differentiate between the explosion of gas and the crackling crack-ling of metal. Finally we were forced to withdraw. We hadn't sighted any survivors then and I finally succeeded in convincing the three men that they must get treatment for their burns at once |