THIRTY-FOUR KILLED.
BY CABTiB—PBEBB ABBOCIATION-~ COPYRIGHT
WASHINGTON, Feb. 21
Latest advices to the War Department from Norfolk are that forty-five were on board the Roma, of whom only eleven survived.
NEW YORK, Feb. 21
The dirigible Roma was cruising 1000 feet above the army base when the accident happened. It had been intended to take the ship on a country-wide tour, when it was expected to make 90 miles an hour. In previous experiments the bag was filled with helium gas, which is non-explosive, but as it contained the country's supply it was emptied, and the bag was filled with ordinary gas just before the final trip.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 23 February 1922, Page 5
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THIRTY-FOUR KILLED.
Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 23 February 1922, Page 5
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