SEARCH FOR MISSING
LITTLE HOPE OF SURVIVAL
TEAPPED IN DEBRIS
onited Press Association—By ElectrlO Telegraph—Copyright. (Eeceivod April 6, 11 a.m.) NEW YORK, April 5. The search for tho seventy-one missing officers and men of the lost airship Akron went forward swiftly on Wednesday, but hope that any had survived has gone. The four rescued —one of whom died —and the ono body found, make a total of seventy-sis. Two lives were lost in the Navy blimp JIII, including Lieut-Commander David Cummins.
The crash of the United States dirigible, Akron, early on Tuesday off the Jersey coast is reckoned today to be the most costly disaster in the history of aviation, with only three of the seventy-six who were aboard saved. Hundreds of vessels, naval and civilian, were concentrated off: Barnegat light this morning determined to renew with the dawn the pursuit of the faint chance that others might be saved. It is believed in authoritative circles' that the missing men were trapped in the debris, which sank.
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 81, 6 April 1933, Page 11
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167SEARCH FOR MISSING Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 81, 6 April 1933, Page 11
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