Show GERMAN AIRSHIP o t EXPLODES IN MIDAIR I TWENTYSIX TWENTY HIGH NAVAL MEN KILLED Death Comes to Entire Admiralty Board Containing Con taming Close Personal Friends of Kaiser Wilhelm Wilhelm Wil Wil- helm Drop Nine Hundred Feet to Main Street of German City Only One of the Twenty Twenty- se seven n Passengers I Is Alive Big Zeppelin Diri Diri- Dirigible Dirigible gi gible le Five Hundred Feet Long Was Having Havin a aTrial aTrial Trial Before fore Becoming Flagship of New German German Ger Ger- man Aerial erial Navy BERLIN Oct 17 The 1 The newest vest and largest of the Zeppelin war airships the L ll 1 w wS was S Sin destroyed in midair by an explosion at 1015 Q o'clock lock this thi morning All but one of the twenty twenty- military men on board including the entire admiralty trial board were killed The Thel disaster occurred just above the the main math street in the e city of J Johannisthal all all' while the big dirigible 5 0 feet long was v s making a trial trip trip pre preliminary to rY b its Its acceptance as fl flagship of pt the ri rif f Gel T ln eti l n J t ti t til i i The n shat shattered shattered u lk of tJ the airship admass L mass of of- f blazing blazIng- canvas and crumpled dropped aluminum feet into the public highway f r Lie Lieutenant Baron von BIe Blent t. t of of the Q Queen leen a. a GIen Grenadier die guards who vho was vas making the trip as a guest Was was s the only survivor His condition is critical of the bodies burned and Many any were vel vei so mangled and as as' to be he unrecognizable The admiralty trial board consisted of seven officers eelS cers inc including Lieutenant Commander Behnisch and arid Senior Lieutenant Freyer of the German naval flying corps The airships airship's pilot was Captain Gluth a veteran vet yet veteran eran steersman in ill the employ of Count Zeppelin Naval Constructors N Neumann and and arid andI anda I Naval a val Engineer Busch were yere among those on board t tile the le shin I f Lieutenant Commander Behnisch was wasa a close friend of the emperor lie He was formerly navi navigating officer Br of ot tho the im im- Continued on page 12 |