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...English companies at a 5% premium for $3,750,000 plus $12,000 for each passenger. Last week when it floated up from Frankfort for the first of 18 round-trips there were 39 passengers aboard, none of headline importance. In command was 45-year-old Captain Max Pruss, who went to work for old Count von Zeppelin in 1911, had made 170 flights across the Atlantic. Last year he commanded the Hindenburg on one flight from Lakehurst to Frankfort and on several to South America. As his adviser came famed Captain Ernst Lehmann, second only to great Dr. Hugo...
...airplanes buzzed around it. With the sun glinting on its silver-grey sides and the four huge red swastikas on its fins, it circled once over Manhattan, then headed for its berth at Lakehurst. But a sharp thunderstorm came up and when he reached the Naval reservation, Captain Pruss took no chances, turned off to sea. At dusk, while a drizzle fell from a sombre sky and a fitful breeze jerked the windsock, the Hindenburg once more poked her nose over Lakehurst. began maneuvering to land. It circled twice, then dropped to 500 ft., occasionally spewing water ballast...
...into the flames like dogs after rabbits!" Someone found Captain Lehmann, his clothes frizzled to the skin in back, his hair ablaze, his face rutted with third-degree burns, wandering about babbling: "Das versteh' ich nicht!" (I don't understand it) over & over. Another led out Captain Pruss, his clothes mostly gone, his lips like two roasted sausages. A naked man, broiled yellow, staggered out, murmured, "I'm all right," fell dead. One rescuer pulled out two dead dogs. Another brought two children, both with broken bones, horrible burns. Seated in a bonfire of debris...
...Passenger Herbert O'Laughlin, who ran black-faced into the hangar looking for a telephone to call his mother in Chicago, said: "I was in my cabin . . . packing . . . when I felt a slight tremor. . . . There was very little confusion among the passengers, no screaming, hardly any noise." Captain Pruss said nothing, held incommunicado by doctors who gave him "a 50-50 chance to live...
...Milwaukee, Andrew Wisniewski, father of eleven, offered two of them in payment of a $35 debt to a furniture company. Judge Thaddeus Pruss dismissed the action...