Show SHENANDOAH IS WRECKED BY WIND AIRMEN ARE KILLED WHEN AIRSHIP FALLS TO EARTH IN THREE PIECES Heavy Wind While P Passing Over Ohio Is Said to be Cause of Disaster Commander is Among the Dead Caldwell CaIdwell Ohio The Ohio The giant dirigible Shenandoah is no more It went downin down i in n three pieces here early September t third hird and killed its commander Lieutenant Lieutenant Lieutenant Lieu Lieu- tenant Commander Zachary Lansdowne Lansdowne Lans- Lans Lansdowne downe and thirteen of the officers I and men making up her crew The airship struck a line a a variety of storm most feared by airmen air air- men shortly men shortly after 5 o'clock near this Noble county village while traveling at an altitude of feet en route from rom Lakehurst N. N J. J to the west There was no explosion The big ship simply met win winds s of a strength which it was unable to combat ALter After Af- Af ter er encountering the storm at the thc high ugh altitude the ship hea headed ed heavenward heavenward heaven heaven- ward vard to an altitude of approximately feet when it suddenly can came down lown again and broke into three pieces One piece feet or or morein more morein moren in n length fell in a field about one and anda I Ia a half miles from Ava The control L compartment in which the commander commander com corn mander and navigating crew were riding fell fifty feet away and th the hird third section feet long drifted I through the air like a free balloon for foi miles landing near Sharon Noble county Most of the dead were found in the tangled angled wreckage of the control cabin where a full crew was on duty attempting attempting at at- tempting empting to ride out the buffeting winds which resulted in the complete destruction of the giant of the air Ambulances and other conveyances which carried physicians and others I to o the scene immediately following I the he accident were transporting the I C dead lead and injured to near-by near towns Those hose who met death in the unsuccessful unsuccessful I fight against the elements were token taken ken to Belle Valley while the i injured were scattered in the various I hospitals of the community The story of the disaster is one me of oi heroism of the crew pioneers pioneers' in the interest of the development of lighter- lighter than-air than transportation It is best told by C Colonel lonel C. C C. C Hal Halk Haib United States army observer aboard the ill- ill fated ship shill We Ve were verc traveling west at an altitude altitude alti alti- altitude tude of about feet when we encountered encountered encountered en en- countered a storm Colonel Hall said in describing the accident By changing our course a dozen or more time we dodged lodged it only to encounter the line which sent us to an uch of feet before we realized realized realized real real- what had happened We Ve opened the valves to let out gas and lowered the ship and were drawing draw draw- in ing away from the storm at fifty miles on hour when the storm torm enveloped enveloped enveloped us and broke the ship into three pieces I exclaimed to Commander Lansdown |