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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Jun 10, 1908

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 34, No. 24.

Air-Ship Disaster at Berkeley

Sixteen men seriously injured, two of them probably fatally, is the record of the attempted flight of a huge air-ship at Berkeley, Cal., May 24. The inventor was urged, on account of the flimsy character of the air-ship, not to make the ascent; but he was determined, and the 450-foot gas-bag was inflated. With sixteen men on board, the craft ascended about two hundred feet, when it suddenly collapsed and shot to the earth. About twenty of the five thousand people who watched the ascent were injured in the panic which ensued when the air-ship fell.