New York, Apr. 4.
'The United States Navy dirigible Akron crashed twenty. miles of Barnegat lightship (New Jersey) to-night carrying down with her nineteen "officers and 57 enlisted nen, Among' the accounted for is Rear iam A. Moffett, Bureau of Aeronaitics. nants RF, Cross Jr D.W. Hare ngan, R, W. Lawson, F. M. Kivett, Tarnell, H.'M. Westeoat, HEL. Young, N. B. Miller, Wilfred Bushnell, and ©. T. Glendeunings and Chief Machinist's Mate G, Walsh, All of these officers are missing and it is now believed that they were drowned—United Press.
The cause of the crash known for, a short time before it occurred, the Navy Department. Lakehurst received a message that the ship was cruising along the [New England coast.
She was apparently blown from her course after being disabled for
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