AERIAL TRAGEDY
DIRIGIBLE EXPLODES ENVELOPE PIERCED BY A BIPLANE , OCCUPANTS' TERRIBLE DEATH By Association—Copyright (Rcc. June 21, 5.5 p.m.) Vienna, June 20. At Koertiug, a dirigible ascended to take aerophotograplis. A captain, tlireo lieutenants, two mechanics, and a civil engineer Were aboard, Somo timo later two lieutenants, in a biplane, encircled the balloon, lihd several times attempted to fly over it. The biplane accidentally grazed the dirigible, and rent the envelope. A violent explosion took place, and the dirigible burst into flames, and fell from a height of 1300 feet. The occupants' charred corpses were found in the wreckage*. > The biplane Was also destroyed, ind tho two' lieutenants, who had occupied it, were terribly mutilated.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2182, 22 June 1914, Page 5
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115AERIAL TRAGEDY Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2182, 22 June 1914, Page 5
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