Show FARMER HERO is REVEALED I Man Who Tied Up Blimp BlimpS S Saves Lives of Many I Manyin in ill Crew CALDWELL Ohio Sept ept 9 OP A AA A A A hero of oC the Shenandoah disaster last Thursday morning was found among th native o sons SODS of ot Noble oble county count Tuesday v Ho lie Is Isa a a. little grizzled farmer who raises turkeys geese and some crops on ona ona a farm arm near Sharon but he Is the theman man maji who o grabbed nb the 11 naw's giant J dirigible Irl Irlo bj by the no ring nose ic an and I It to the ground Many n Il a n time Ernest Nichols ha has hns tethered d an angered bull to i a 0 fence post but not until last las Thursday morning morning- was he ho ever e called upon to tame a n rampant rampan dirigible ite I-ite Tuesday tales bo bogan be- be began began gan drifting over o the countryside about a 0 man who ho had helped t to stop the plunging of oC the Shenandoah's doah's nose o er hills and andal val val- valleys alle leys le s 's after aCter It broke from the mid mid- middie middle middie die dle and aft aCt sections an hour hou earlier near Ava 12 miles away nECEl ES immediately the board of In In- In Destination castigation which Is handling al all alt phases of ot the disaster r which 10 re- re remain main to be cleared up became In Interested In- In Interested interested In the story The board recalled r suggestions made b by Lieu Lieu- William Wiiiiam Mayer Major and and others oth oth- ers who were In that portion o othe ot of the snip that supported Nichols Nichols' story t Commander Jacob II Klein chief of ot the Investigating board said alter after hearing the story stor that hc the Nobel ubel county count farmer had done donea a good job j b and a great gnat ser service Ernest Erne Nichols was found in Ir Iran inan Inan an obscure ol corner orner of his barnyard feeding his hi turkeys and was ap ap- ap of ot the fact that he ho had lad done something Important HOW hOW- UK lIE TIm DID IT The story that the farmer told The rIse Associated Press Tress Is as fol fol- follows lows sir I can show you bet bet- better better better ter than I can tell you jou ou I was in the house he pointed to a three room three dwelling when my m neighbor nel called up on the tele tele- telephone telephone telephone phone and said an art airship was headed for my house and an that I had better stop It I ran out nd md nd here It came right through our orchard headed straight for Cor forbe I he be house After Alter drifting all that way after it broke up It was wasE E g E tUn tung pretty prellY close to the ground round COMINO CO T AT HOUSe It sure enough was vas coming right rl ht toward my house I looked up ar and d there was my oldest boj bojI boyI boy boy- boI I e have six fix boys bo and one girl girt girt- ticking sticking his head out of the up- up upstairs upstairs stairs window I knew I had to stop that thing or the house would smashed and amI kids would be killed klIed Then too I heard the fellows up there in the Shenandoah Shenandoah's doah doah's s drifting nose nOle jelling yelling Grab hold Grab hold Turn h hr r south Turn her south So SoI SoI I 1 grabbed sra of the tlc cable that hanging down and drew H it Hp p round that fence Cene post lost The post snapped right off otc I grabbed the cable again and threw It H around hat fiat old maple stump The stump slump had two Iwo prongs on It and I bought hought sure It would hold but It Uj 13 B that time the nose noses V s 50 so close to the ground that llie tle underside had hatt me backed up the fence and I had to torun torun run It was headed heade away awa from Irons i ithe he the house then but It knocked I oft off the top of ot that shed and the wheel heel on that well and then bowled over o that grape arbor I kept following It and finally threw the table cable around that tree All that time lime I didn't know what the thing was I didn't know 1 I I was so 50 big Why h its It's 01 over oyer cr ISO feet long USES pm Soon oon my kids came ame running out and we helped tie It up Then Thenne Thene T e ne ae men mn began b San climbing out en E Mien It didn't stay where it was For Forye we ye had to tie tic it again sacral SE eral times during the day and md the men borrowed by b shotgun and punctured punctured punctured the gas pas bags My 1 little girl said when she first saw raw me pulling at it she thought thou ht it ft was a big lol bird My 1 oldest olde t son Ion thought It was all a abad abad abad bad dream I e been too busy taking care of people who came out here hereto to see se the wreck and looking af after at- at atter atter ter my m family and farm to think about It until today The safe anchoring of ot the ships ship's nose nos ma may maha ha hae ha e prevented further casualties In the Shenandoah s crash for Cor Just ahead of the t ty tIng tying Ing ng up tip place that Nichols found founds is s a steep sleet densely wooded hill hili which might have wrought havoc to the nose no e nn |