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Show GERMAN ADMIRALTY AERIAL TRIAL BOARD MEETS DEATH Zeppelin War Dirigible Drops Nine Hundred Feet, Twenty-eight Passengers Pas-sengers Being Killed. Berlin. Twenty-eight persons were killed Friday near Johnannisthal in the explosion and fall of Count Zeppelin's Zep-pelin's latest dirigible balloon, the "Lrll." The twenty-eight men represented the entire personnel of the admiralty aerial board, which was to conduct the pilot and crew and invited guests, to its acceptance by the government as a new unite of the German navy, the polit and crew and invited guests. Every person that went aloft in the big airship is dead. Twenty-seven of them were killed almost instantly by the explosion ot the gas in the balloonettes or burned to death as the flaming wreck fell to the ground from a height of 900 feet and enveloped them. Lieutenant Baron Bar-on von Bleut of the Queen Augusta Grenadier guards, a guest of the admiralty ad-miralty board, was extricated alive from the mass of twisted wreckage. His eyes were burned out and he suffered suf-fered other terrible hurts. Begging his rescuers to kill him and end his sufferings he was taken to a hospital, where he died. The "L-II," had it proved successful success-ful would have been attached to the aerial corps of the navy, which after Friday's fatalities has now only two men trained to command airships. The official report of the accident says the explosion was due to the ignition of gas in or above the for-ward for-ward gondola, but not within the body of the airship. Many of the bodies were so burned burn-ed and mangled as to be unrecognizable. |