Show 7 WRECK REcK RECALLS RECAlL 4 1 f Li m DISASTER A TER Navy avy Files Piles Record J Zeppelin Losses f I W WASHINGTON Sept 11 AI AP 1 tile files of ot the navy department t 1 day brought forth an n account o oThe of I The e loss of the German naval air air- 4 ilp L L-l September 9 9 1913 which jn Sn many waYs Including the the the-flum- num number ber iber killed paralleled the Shenandoah doah disaster I fi They disclosed also the records of ono one Zeppelins used by the German Grman navy during the World war v of ct which seventeen were destroyed Jn iP enemy action and twenty-four twenty yero lost ost due to weather conditions jf 4 The account of ot the L L-l th the Germans Germans' Ger- Ger er- er mans mans' first naval naval airship was writ writ- non by bv Captain Walter Valter R. R Gher- Gher di dI then United Stat Stats States s naval at at- at tache at ot t Berlin and now aide to Secretary Wilbur Wllbur The data was wasN N regarded by naval officials as e es es- interesting In view in-view view of the I recEnt Decent statement by Dr Hugo Eckener Eck- Eck I ener ejier director of Zeppelin air airship hip t rt who brought over the Los Angeles that a a. German crew v and comman commander er would have saved laved the The Tho 1 L on September 9 was v aught in a squall at a foot 1500 altitude eighteen eighteen miles north of s over the ocean 4 ft A heavy circular squall with a shift of wind of sixteen points tor- tor nUal rains and a sudden drop of temperature occurred Cc the account The air arr currents were as well as horizontal and b before for the fatal plunge the ship was up and thrown through a range ange of ot feet The final e sent the airship Into the yater ater bows first and It It crumpled Jn n the middle V The The forward forward gondola c carried all fin n it to their death The stern rand nd after gondola remained out of ot rater at r supported by red gas bags for nearly for nearly one half hour j T Ballast previously had been and every em- em to g get t the ship under control con- con 4 i. i Fourteen Fourteen of the crew of twenty re killed The German army anny Captain Gher- Gher said quickly discovered that the Z were of no use over l 2 nd they could be fired on by nemy airplanes so they were Ign en n to the navy In addition to the seventeen shot down and nd the four ty-four t r lost in bad weather four were vere destroyed by spontaneous com com- S Thus the record said almost 40 all the per cent of or Zeppelins em- em during the tho be war were wre derond de- de royed rond ed by br weather conditions which S ie e trained German-trained crews and Ger- Ger m ln officers could not overcome |