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Show FIVE FALL 1,000 FEET DIRIGIBLE BALLOON COLLAPSED AND OCCUPANTS ARE DASHED TO DEATH. Winner of the International Balloon Race Held in America in 1907, and Four Companions, Crushed Beyond Recognition. Lelchllngcn, Rhenish Prussia. Falling Fall-ing through space a distance of nearly 1,000 feet, Oscar Erbslone, aeronaut and Inventor, winner of the international interna-tional balloon race held In America in 1907, and four companions, were dashed to death on Wednesday in a Held near Opladen. The others killed were Herr Toelle, a manufacturer of Barmen, Engineers Hoeppe and Kranz, and the motorman, Splcke. Only peasants saw the tragic end ol the flight of the dirigible balloon Erb-slohe, Erb-slohe, which, alter a series of unfortunate unfor-tunate accidents slnco Its construction a year ago, had recently be relltted for passenger service. They hau observed ob-served the balloon a short time bo-fore bo-fore t as It swung gracefully In the air. Soon it disappeared In the fog and shortly a load explosion was heard and a crumpled mass fell like a plumet to the earth. |