AMERICAN CABLE NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 4 September 1925, Page 3

AMERICAN CABLE NEWS.

Australia Sr N.Z. Cable Association.] AMERICAN A I RSI I IB DISASTER. (Received this day at 10. Jo a.in.) VANCOUVER. Sept. A. Twelve officers anil men were killed when the min dirigible Shenandoah crashed in a windstorm ten miles north i! Belle Valley. Ohio, early oil T hursihiy. A portion dropped to the ground am! the other portion drilted ten Dili- before descending. Till". A I RSI! IB DISASTER Washington. Sept. a. Forty-tv i> were aboard the airship Sliennandoah. WASHINGTON. Sept. :b The Shenandoah's senior surviving ,(!i, ,-r reported to the Navy Department that thirteen were killed, two injured and one is mrssmg. Thirteen were killed in the Sliennnlonh crash. A terrific windstorm struck the Shenandoah and the blasts ripped the seams, i a using her to break in two sect ions, one halt being carried twelxo miles by the cyclone.

The dead include Commander Lans,lowue, Lieut. Commander Hancock, Lii ut. Lawrence (senior watch oflicerL ami Picul. Houghton (watch officer). The Shenandoah left the air stati.ni at l.akehiir-t (New .lerseyll on Wediu'sdav afternoon en route to St. Louis, which she expected to reach late to-night. On her return a big party of prominent men. including Henry lord were to he given a demonstration tour around Chicago. Twelitv-thr f the crew reported 1 1 emsolves uninjured. All the killed or injured were in the forward half of the ship, which was travelling rapidly in a gale, twisting •iml turning over and generally acting crazily, spilling several who were unable to cling to the wreckage. Lieut. Ilenlcv Ranking, a surviving ntlicer. said the ship practically broke into three parts. The storm gave her such a buffeting that her engine gear was dislocated troni the propellers. The control department then fell free with the stern dangling by the cables. The storm completed the utter collapse. All five engines went had when the gale struck the ship bard and she iwistod and turned crazily. The last official report sent hy the radio operator aboard the Shenandoah was " Am losing mv seat lie previously wirelessed that she was rocking, heaving and straining in the wind. WASHINGTON. September 3. The Shenandoah was struck bv lightning. aeon riling to advice to the Nny\ Department. Messages from Relic Valiev state the airship struck a line of squalls. Shortly after five o’clock at a height ot* in three parts. There was no explosion in thro parts. There was no explosion, After encountering the storm the ship

v.ciit lit) to live thousand h‘<‘t ;mtl t*l**ll suddenly broke, two nieces lulling within fifty teet of each Other, the third drifting through the air tor 1miios. st \N FRANCISCO. September 3. Tt is reported the I’.N. 03. which abandoned the Highly tipped over and sunk in San Francisco Bay hy the wake ~f a passing steamship while being lowed to the repair base. The two men who were aboard were saved. The naval officers admitted thi' showed how easily the missing P.N. 01 might have been swamped in the rough seas in the vicinity of Maui Tsland.