AIRSHIP COMES TO GRIEF
FALL OF 300 FEET.
SIXTEEN OCCUPANTS SERIOUS-
LV INJURED.
TPBBSS AbSOCIATIOH.I (Received May 24, 8.44 a.m.)
1 NEW YORK, May 24. '
A Mairell air-ship, 450 feet long, propelled by five forty-horse power engines, feJl 300 feet on ite trial trip .'n the prese-nee of a. thousand spectators at Barkerley, California. The )6 occupants were seriously injured, sustaining fractured limbs. The vit tims were lecal residents who were conteonplaifcing investments! in the company which proposed to build similar airships.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, Issue LIII, 25 May 1908, Page 5
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