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Show 7FPPFI IN Dirigible Balloon Blown Up, Three of Crew Injured Baden, Baden. Sept. 11. The dirlg I hie balloon Zeppelin VI, while enter-Ing enter-Ing her shed today.' was blown up by nn explosion of the moior In the rear rondoia. Tbreo of the crew were terlous.lv Injured. The Zeppelin VI will be remembered remember-ed by Its notable flight from Friedcr-Ichshafeii Friedcr-Ichshafeii to Berlin when It carried Count Zeppelin, the inventor, on a visit to Emperor William. When the Deutschland was wrecked, wreck-ed, the German Airship Stock company, com-pany, which has inaugurated a pass. f-HTcr service in the vicinity of Tiad-en Tiad-en Baden, chartered the Zeppelin VI. and advertised that it would make dally trips of from one to three hours ,-a'ii way until Sept. 30, when It was expected the Deutsehland would ng.iin he In condition. The Zeppelin VI was built in I0n9, but had since been aimed ai-med and enlarged Her navigating and operating machinery' was contain, ed In two gondola cars situated in the bow and stern. It was In the Mem gondola that the explosion occurred oc-curred today. Suspended from the center of the airship was a luxuriously furnished cabin. She carried a crew of ten men. The measurements of the Zeppelin VI were: length 432 feet; width. 42 feet; gas capacity, 20 00.) cuMc yards. Her three motors bad a total of 400 horse power expanded In four propellers and giving lier a speed of 3$ miles an hour. |