Volume 16 , Issue 8

25 February 1922 Frontpage News Headlines

Twenty-six years before this NW Okie was born (1948), 25 February 1922, we find the following frontage headlines from an Albuquerque, New Mexico newspaper, The Evening Herald, which reads: Street Car Company Asks for Seven Cent Fare, among other smaller headlines on that day, 92 years ago. Another headline read: First Pictures of Wreck of the Roma.

It shows charred bodies of victims taken from the airship ruins that day. Rescue parties of soldiers and civilians worked for hours in the debris of the army dirigible, Roma, wrecked and ravaged by flames at Norfolk, Virginia. The photograph was taken shortly after the disaster, showing the search for bodies of victims. In the center you can see rescuers are shown removing the charred body of one of those who lost his life in the air accident.

When the great dirigible collapsed at Norfolk, it smashed into a heavily charged electric wire which set fire to the gas in the bag. As the Roma exploded and fell the rudder was left hanging on a telephone pole, a landmark to the thousands crowding to the scene.   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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