Show I 1 I 1 ait trial trip of largest airship ever constructed ends in a most frightful Dis disaster astr ten thousand spectators stand help less and witness monster flying machines fall of feet all of occupants being injured oakland cal the great morrell airship the largest ever constructed I 1 burst on its trial trip when feet fee t i iq the air above a crowd of 10 spec s p e e gators at berkeley at 11 40 0 c lock sat arday the sixteen men who made the ascension with the big cra craft f t w were e r e d dashed ash e d to t the h e g ground ro u n d a and n d every e r y 0 one n e of th thea e m m more 0 r e 0 or r i less e ss i in n lured broken legs and arms and in injuries were suffered by most of them and it Is believed that two will die the accident was a most acu lar one A great crowd had gathered about the vacant lot where the big bi gas bag had been inflated with cubic feet of illuminating gas tc ta watch the trial trip of the airship there were nere sixteen persons five of 01 them engineers in charge of the five gasoline eng nes several newspaper photographers the inventor of the ali aich h p CA GA morrell and an aus gralian aeronaut rising slowly under the power from five gasoline engines the great air ship lifted to a height of probably feet suddenly there was a ripping roaring sound and the forward end of the a iship tilted downward and it began to settle to the ground the occupants 0 of the airship clung desperately to the rigging while the crowd of 10 people or more were panic st ilcken before what appeared to be impending disaster to sixteen men As the airship settled toward the ground several of the man leaped and a number were seriously injured in the fall others stayed with the craft I 1 it reached the ground and they too were injured by the heavy engines and the superstructure of the airship |