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" OFAIRSHPDRO? Many Thrilling Escapes Are Recorded by Crew Philadelphia, Sept. 4 (M—The breaking of a gasbag over power car| No. 3, the aft starboard car of the dirigible Shenandoah, was blamc by some of the survivors of the| wreck for the tragedy yesterday in Ohlo. | When the 18 survivors, who came| by special car from the scene of the wreck en route to their hon tation, arrived at Philadelphia at today, some of them agreed that this| accident, in conjunction with ti terrific storm, was responsible for the wreck and its ensuing loss of lite. The storm survivors as a “w minlature cyclone, Some of the men sald they had been able to see the) storm coming, but that the ship had | been powerless to get out of its way As the men trooped from the| train at the North Philadelphia sta- | tion of the Pennsylvania railroad to| ) a. m. was described by stern twister, Lakehurs cock, killed. Lieutenant killed. Lieutenant Killed. Lieutenant 19 Lilled. Lieutenant C. caped uninjured. Chief Machinist S. S. Halli- burton, escaped uninjured. Chief Gunner G. W. Almons. The single photograph below is of Commander Lansdowne in D o P s b S A i S B 4 NEW, BRITAIN DAILY, HERALD, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1025 —e Officers of the wrecked dirig- ible Shenandoah half of whom now are dead, as they appeared last January wearing full dress uniforms for a gala occasion at Left to right in the group: Commander Zachary Lans- downe, killed. Lieutenant-Comdr. L. Han- J. P. Lawrence, A. R. Houghton, . W, Sheppard, I, Basch, es- flying costume. night that we liad run into a storm. “The ship struck an angle about 45 degrees, minut 1 dressed and {ried to make my way to my control cabin, “Before T got five hammock the ship took a series o nose dives and was twisted around. [ hesitated a moment, Then at a terrific rate, travel ing almost vertically. “I noticed that at take another train to Lakehurst, all of them were carrying heavy bags. “Are they your effects?” someone aaked one of the men, pointing to the bags. “No,” he =ald. things that belonged rades who are dead.” Richardson Wilson of Loufsville, Ky, a seaman, second class, listed | yesterday as injured, was among the [2scended survivors, unhurt. The 18 men came on the train in gharge of Lieutenant Hendley. The were ' stiff and sore from the leaps; they mad made from the airship as it neared the ground. They were grimy and very tired. Few slept either last night or at any time yes- terday, A number of them described how they clung to the outer envelope and the framework and worked their| way from the top of the airship— almost a hundred feet—to a hand- hold near. the bottom where they were able when the broken sections of the airship dropped near the ground, to let go and drop 10 or 15 feet to safety o the com- “They are to our sticky. But after twistin gand turn thousand feet, we struck an unusual Iy cold current of air. into the air with ship, hanging on to a fragment o of the ship about 100 feet. tops of several nee and let go.’ red J. Tobin, aviation pllot, Ar lington, Mass., said: “I had trees, I took indge the time was 5: and T was greatly surprised In less than three feet from my she tha first nose dive the alr was unusually hot and ing to a height of about five or six “1 was lifted the nose of the a girder, which stuck out of the nose “After this girder had bumped the A just gone down to relleve | Everett Allen, one of the dead. 1 5, but T guess cars numbers 1, 3 and 3, remalned at their posts, even after the col- f|lapse of the dirigible, and the drop- ping away of the control cars and ¢|the two forward power cars. They were still at their engines as the broken after part of the dirigible came close to the ground touching *[the tops of trees and listing badly towards the port side. “Then she rose a littls and the after power cars were wrenched and twisted but not torn loose from their fastenings. By that time we under- stood the completenees of the disas; ter and all of the men in the power cars were climbing above the en- gines to get a handgrip of some kind on the frame of the dirigible. “As the Shenandoah finally eettied the three rear power cars were twisted and torn away. e were bounced around savagely for several minutes. We had first strlick among the tops of some trees. “These slowed up the speed of the airship, or rather that part of the f f as she bounded down toward ground some of the men were vir- | | {eelved when I first was assigned to | |the cars hit the ground, the b airship in which we were riding and | the | dropped about 85 feet. I lay on my face so that the car would not strike me as it skimmed over the hill. Tt| then ross in the air again and look- | |ing around, T saw two of the other| | men, one a chiet rigger and the | ‘ other fhe | e | cook. They were about | five yards from me and lay as | though stunned. In a fow minutes they got up and we walked around | in elrcles, | “T aftribute my escaps from death | to following out my instructions re- | (een of Crew Come Back | the Shenandoah—those were fo keep | my propellers running full speed. 1! believe this enabled the section with my car to make a comparatively | gentle landing.” The landing of the rear section of the Shenandoah after the cracking of the ship was described hy Walter Johnson, Minneapolis, ehief machin ist's mate. “The last gection of the ship, with | (17 €F0Td that awaited them | two of the cars attached fo it, | e e e L Aaon L hiTalda {for th ir tinme since the VIFSHF'"F.‘ hroke under strain and wept, The men were permitted fo g0 10 their homes fo rest after their dventure, Lakehuret, N. J., 4 (P—Sev- | enteen surviving members of the ciew of the ill-fated Shenandoah ar rived at naval air station morning and were Eopt Za the this & greeted by more n 500 friends and relatives at the station. I'onr of the men officers and the rest enlisted h - ‘As was above us on the slope. At onee the tail began swinging around said Johnson down the and rdou | o ha HERE ARE PHOTOS OF OFFICERS ON SHENANDOAH'S LAST FLIGHT, FIVE OF WHOM, INCLUDING COMMANDER LANSDOWNE, ARE DEAD ISURVIVORSREACH | WATER SYSTEN WAD DISTRUSTED Relatives Break Down as Seven- Newly Installed Apparatus May |, Have Cansed Break Lakehurst, chary navy in st “I was misunderstood last night,” | Lansdowne “C‘ommander Lansdowne was very | Imuch opposed to making the fiight at this time and he adyised the de [partment accordingly. fhe Ohin id Mrs. m in Lansdowne, 4 of 1., Sept widow commanding officer of the wrecked enandoah foday asserted that she not criticized her eomments of Inight on the advisabllity of the filght of the Shenandoah to the secrefary the Having b valley, he kn Mrs. | middie fORESUTSSS—— SR A THE HERALD “WANT ADS” Alphabetically Arrangea For and Ready Reference. 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Masters, aviation pilot, who had planned to descend by para chute fo his home In Akren came down of the way to Ohlo ound on a glrder instead and Jimped safely. most the e airman Antheny of Thouse army appropriations committee says {hat the wreck was Inevitable sooner of or later last “Rraadeacting” was the last entry in the ship's log The ship erumpled in an afr whirl- | panl caused by winds of opposite di- rection, like a tornado above the earth, een SN The greatest wish of (‘ommander NICE CARNATIONS—=¥ ship | 1L Burial Lots, Mouuni BURTAL VAULTS—Con torce! 1 preof, will outlast elther woo 1 lota Reasonably Co.. Kensington. Tel._647:16 W BRITAIN=— Oak St Monumen 1 desoriptious. Catving end letter eutting our_speclalty. Florist GUT FLOWERS—putied plania pieaaing vartely. Specializing on funeral work. Johuau enhuuse, 617 Church Bt. FLOWERS! up. 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Harttord Ave., cor. | | Ran For Tdves | “We had to run for our muy'*i ‘Wilson said, “because the portion of the bag in which we were, the nup-| per portion, was rolling, sagging and | twisting from side to side.” Several members of the party sald | when a the side hecause of the change from eastern standard to central standard. “Allen was running the elevators. {1 started to walk toward my station zip of wind struck and another on tually thrown off; us on the other others their chance and leaped. half dark at the time. not see at once that the nose of the airship was missing."” Rode In The Nose watched It was We could ward { The ship was forced down that not only did the control car fall, but that No, 4 and No. 5 power 4,0 yon) fust cars'fell also a few minutes later, | " o FEEC LT Dosttion Wilson sald the control car must| i, < 5 |started to rise very quickly. have dropped off when the dirigible |y coy14 climb fifteen feet more, ther was 2,000 feet in the air. He could was a ripping, hissing sound and th n;:t figure how ht\z‘? they were When ! io"shin hroke in two. the power cars fell away. Wilson added that he was awak Dosoensa Speedlly ened by the rolling of the Shenan-| ‘You might realize how fast w: Anak came down, when I say that befor “It was rolling terrifically fore and |1 could turn my head to see wha aft, up and down,” he said, “The|happend, I found myself on the to ghip seemed to plunge down a thou-|of a tree. As I started to clim sand feet or so. It was a swift, long descent. Then instantly it was jerked upward at an angle of 45 degrees to about 5,000 feet or perhaps 6,000 feet by the free end of the shi feet. That was when I heard the|along the roads and hills erash. I knew that we were going| “T finally managed to free mysel down and 160ked below. T could see|and fell a that we were dropping fast. minutes T could “I made a flying leap for the scal- ing ladder that goes from the cat walk to the top of the hag, Other men all around me, up and down the ship, were climbing the ladder to get away from the dangerous bot tom of the bag, for they all knew that when she struck the tendency would be for the frame to bhuckle and kill anyone who was near | “After we got up to the fop of the bag we began a terribly difiicult job of climbing over the outside of | the frame, tearing away portions o the covering to get a handgrip, and working our way downward and around underneath or nearly under neath, Then we tched for our chance and jumped.” ‘Wilson said that his duty ship was to do erical and almost the the ground he ran info Lieutenant Bosch, who ordered him immed ly to start a search for the control ear. It lay quite a distance off across a little valley, he said. Dead in Control Car “It was a splintered w Wilgon, “with mangled h and lying around outsi tified twelve of the dead f we found Licutenant She Cullinan, when tha Shenandc up in the air No men two power cars that fol control c: to 1 know. he r because everyhod been ordered to st minutes hefore, | and clung fo t the two pow away. John J said he when the preceded the shi twisters. hold my feet ping. 1 ¢ of the Hereth “We be mide,” drop. 1 1 am allt The Philade station took a s ferry. NJ | caught me around the walst |arms and I was dragged about 1,00 out 0 feet, not move, “T fel to death when T got up and foun 1 could walk around.'” All that Tobln wora was overalls and an undershirt. ried a small hlack grip, bhiu which, h men that had been killed Spottswood 8 Halliburton of Ma Ga., an assistant engineer offi Shenandoah, was in No. one of the power cars was one of the cars that did not fal had orders to stand by were given about 4 or & minutes be [ fore the crash. We had been fight ing through the storm for hours an struck Into tha very center of it a that point. Men In the after powe on the minuta fell the ¢ he to 'THE POTTERS who had f Hal fr b COMMISSION O Dol fendley's Story had retire rear of t from the co ’~ T tried to make my way along as the ship came to and Before down. part of the rigging and wires and For several a8 if nearly every hone in my body was broken and T surely was tickled He car- sald, contalned personal valuables of His “Every man on the ship.” he sald, |after The orders | around, seemed to COLLY, T MADE A HUNDR ED-DOLLAR JIST "LIKE PICKIN' IT UPR. ILL GNE MA AN PaLly TWENTY-FIVE % Charles 8olar of Indianapoljs, ma- chinist's mate, was one of the men ship. “1 was just getting out of my bunk when we suddenly spun around in a little eyclone. The airship sank and then bounded upward and the part of the ship in which I was riding broke off. “Commander Rosendahl was with {us and we free ballooned it, grad- vally getting her down towards the ground until we were able to drop loose. . I hurt myself when T fell but: not serlously. No bones were | broken.” Ralph Jones, Los Angeles, [tion machinist's mate, said “I was in car No. 3. It was about f |3:47 eastern standard time when I received signals for full speed. 1 t |got the engine running at 1400 rev. |olutions a minute, “We were then in the teeth of the storm and T realized the command- er had decided to go with the storm. Forward In cars Nos. 4 and 5, 1 suddenly heard a ripping noise. “We were then caught in the twigter. The ship first reared on one end and then on the other. Then it made a terrific and sudden descent, | swinging around for or five times “T agaln got the signals for full {speed ahead. The &hip suddenly {lurched upward. We rose to abhout 5,000 feet when the Shenandoah, being tossed around and collapse all at . o t P b 0 il evia- a e |3 | once “The next thing T knew we struck da hill and the car T was in caught tlin the top of some treex, rion the side of the hill T €lid off T judge I carried away in the nose of the air- | | | | | | {car down the &lope. {toward them some of them dived | neath it and took “When the car landed T ran np the hill and escaped the bag. RBut many of the others jumped from the The bag came As it c Iburton said | "A terrific | wreek and nothing on have saved the ship ery did evervthing under the sun l; |bring her throngh and stuck at post until all was gone."” Those who returned were T. C twister caused earth the conld man to his ed bouncing after them me a chance jumping over them. “I don't know what happened to the others. the tail around and down the slope must have run away from enough to escape.” gl | LIGHTNING OR STATIC | CAUSE, EMERSON SAYS ., | motes sen o | James H. Collfer, Lakewood, N. Frank L. Peckhan, Ma Richardson Wiison, Yakima, Wash | Ralph Jones. Tos Angeles, Cal, | Inlins Malak, Hooversville, Pa. | Denjamin Hereth, Platonia, Neb. | Lester K. Coleman, Fort Worth, of swung | Leut Henley, Columbla, | Tenn | Lient, J Ma Col. Chalmers G, Hall, U, §, army & air merviee | Chief Machinist Halliburton, Ma n, Ga. they fast | R. Anderson, Hyattsville, 1t Enlisted Men ba I Frontstone, Nothing Faulty in Construction Dirigible, Experta Say—Was | Strongest in World, Detroit, Mich,, Sept. 4 UP—A ter rific bolt of lightning or a discharge of statie electricity doomed the U, & 8. Shenadoah, Lieutenant R Em erson declared unequivocally here last night. Lieutenant Emerson. chief of construction, spent Angust vears aiding in the building of the N. J glant dirigible and is now connected| louis F. Allely, Togan, Ohio with the Afrcraft Development com Frederick 1. Tobin, Arlington, | pany here Mass, “The Shenandoah was the strong.| Raymond Cole, Lima, Ohlo est dirigible of 60 airships of its kind | Mark J. Donovan of Philadelphia in the world. Eliminating a holt of |also was in the party, but did not | lightning. the accident is virtually in- come to Lakehurs explicable,” Emerson added | his home eity “There is one other possibility, but | Chief Machinist of sh ne as | Te three Ouernheim, Lakehurst, |in ter th the power cars might have caused a|When the crash came The situation that resulted in the disas-|broke, he said, at section 90, and at | Tar Ut hat s et kaIeD section 130, the latter break occur- | Lieutenant Emerson sald he was ing near the water recovery system awalting a summons to appear at the government inquiry info the disa and &aid he would testify there w absolutely nothing fanlty in Shenandoah’s construction th Hall, 17, 8§, says weather A forecasts Colonel who aboard by | ex I to avold the fatal squal I no / YoullL FALL OFF AND REAK (YOUR NOSE N TH'SIDE LARS APIECE! ! THAT MEANS THAT ME AN' VOU S GOTYA HAVE A HUNDRED AND I WANT A NEW POCKET BOOK, MAL WONDER WHERE WE. WL GET THE. L weather conditions out had some fear of them.” From another source it was learn- Lans [f0wne, before starting on the i1l [fated trip, had eriticized |recovery system installed ahout six |sweeks ago and had declared that he lintended having it removed today that Among men thered the stem The original Nast bags ip broke Not only it w addition 1t m o ship. The two ribs, or rings as they are dropping off at [called in dirigible construction, were |reunited by a square connection in- Halliburton #ald 'stead of the original circular form, it is remote. Motor trouble in one of [that he was in the keel of the 5]“‘\;7]]"] this also was criticized by Com- ship {mander Lansdowne in private con versations just before departure of o ship. Helium eaved 14; was| been used there would have been an There's vireless would have enabled the ship| helium left to fiy the Los Angeles plosion WHEE GIDDAP! — wAn § gvsem eoncentrated too weight in one part of the ship, but | there Commander who understond |ship's construction, it was freely pre- dicted that the ship could T storm with the water recovery through the loss have {8 belieyed that m is believed that cutting of one of the main circular ribs of the ship and an intermediate rib for installation of the new. sys resulted in These formed the main structure of | further weakn had hydre not BY J. LETS GO Z AROUND AGAIN, DADDY BY: WAL, ELL BE HANGED the water A& [tem distributed the water recovered [from exhaust gas of the engines to| geattered the ship to counte weight from gasoline consumption The new system, installed at sec {tion 110, near the place whera the ! | dirigible is said to |concentrated a great part of the re covered water In a canvas bag hold ing three tons at the spot where the broken, enough and aver the North Pole The &henandoah rode out a werse at Lakehurst some months back, no hroken trees or felled corn the storm wore found near the scene of sh. rrabbed souvenirs from and later they were ers at a quarter each, Matorists "ka sold by ha the the wr ave old | | Calanel Mitchell says such disas tora wonld not be frequent under a "apeefal afr service department. ont | Dirlgibles and balloons are mere- in ;\\' bubbles of gas in frall envelopes. cretary Wilbur comments | Henrvy Ford was to have taken ride on the Shenandoah when it reached | Detroit (. P. Burgess, an engineer who helped desizn her, says the Shenan doah was the strongest ship of her kind bullt except the T.o5 Angeles which is shorter and fatter. the uch the Chief Machinist Rroome, who was killed, vived the ZR-2 disaster. Charles H had aur ess. A “Don't think that the days nf the airship are numbered” eavs Tjeu- tepant Commander Rosendahl a eur. {vivor, Denies Story of Attempt To Poison King Boris Paris, Sept. 4 (A—The Bulgarian minister sald today he was convinced that a report that King Boris had | been pofsoned was baseless. He add | ed that in eeveral dispatches he had just received from Sofia no reference was made to such an attempt to kil the king. hen ANIMAL TENT CLIFF STERRETT EFY Stanley St. A. M. Paunessa, LEXINGTON—Oakland and Gray. High grade motor cars. Bales and service. A. Beuce, 01 Main 8t. Phone GEXTNGTON, OAKI,AND and GRAY M tor Cars, Bales and Service. Hardwa City Motor Ce t.Phone 274 ] Beo U Fales and Bervice A. G. Hawker, Gim_atreet. 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