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Show AIRSHIP EURSTS WD FIVE j FALL TO TKElR DEATH Gigantic D. r i jj i b ! Balloon, DrslgrnJ to Cross the At.intic. Explodes at I Heirjht of 500 Feet. Atlantic City, N, .J Sailing on! over Hit Atlantic ocean iiinli r perfect rem. trol ami In view of M vcral thousands of inlet-ruled person I hi' meat B.r-hl B.r-hl Akron in command of Melvln Vanlinnn, with u crew or four nu n, Calvin Yitiilmnti, Fred F.lmer. CeoiKu lhurrlllon and Waller ('. (Jest, exploded ex-ploded while more than .".nO feet in tin air early Friday, and shot down Into (ho water, a taunted iiihsh, entry-iiiK entry-iiiK to their death the during aviator nnd hi companion lauitli Ik lie. lleved to have come Instantly to the fite men. , In nil t ho tnijMc hi-tory of disasters :o airship or at-roplntiot prohahly none was ii h sensational 11 h that which brought to h n end the greatest anl most costly air craft ever constructed on the western hemisphere. t' to rundown, two bodies, those of fa) v I n Vauiman and liourrllllon had been recovered from the wreckage, which lien fihmcrgcd In ahout eighteen feet of waier off l'.rlpantine beach. Mr. Vurilman saw the collapse of the balloon and its dro into the ocean arrylng with It her husband and her brother-in-law. She fell In a faint and was uncoiiMcloim for some time. |