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Show sixteen Injured in airship accident- Trial Trip of Largest Airship Ever Constructed Ends in a Most -Frightful Disaster. Ten Thousand Spectators Stand Help, less and Witness Monster Flying Machine's Fall of 300 Feet, All of Occupants Being Injured. Oakland, Cal. Tho great Morroll ulrshlp, tho Inrgcst over constructed, burst on Its trial trip when 300 feet In tho air above a crowd or 10,000 spectators spec-tators at Dcrkeloy at 11:40 o'clock Saturday. Tho slxteon men who mndo tho ascension with tho . big craft wero dashed to the ground, and every ono or then moro or less Injured. In-jured. Broken legs nnd nrniB and In. ternal Injuries wero suffered by most or them, nnd It Is believed that two will dlo. Tho accident was a most spectacular spectacu-lar ono. A great crowd had gathered about tho vacant lot where tho big gas bag hnd been Inflntcd with 500,000 cubic feet or Illuminating gas, tc watch tho trial trip or tho airship. Thoro woro slxtoon persons, flvo ol them engineers In chnrgo or tho five gasollno engines, severnl nowspnper photographers, the Inventor ot tho airship, C. A. Morroll, and an Aus. trnllan aeronaut. Rising slowly under tho power from flvo gasollno cnglneB, tho groat airship air-ship lifted to a height of probably 300 reet. Suddenly thero wns n ripping, roaring sound, und tho forwnrd end or tho airship tilted downwnrd nnd It began be-gan to settle slowly to tho ground. Tho occupants of tho nlrshlp cluug desporntoly to tho rigging, whllo tho crowd of 10,000 people or more woro panlc-Btrlckcn beforo what appeared to bo Impending disaster to sixteen men. As tho nlrshlp settled toward tho ground, Bevernl of tho man leaped and a number wero seriously Injured In tho fall. Others stayed with tho craft until It readied tho ground nnd thoy, too, were Injured by tho heavy engines and tho superstructure of tho airship. |