◆ SpookStack

Three New Brungewlek residents Were eyewitnesses of the Hinden- burg disaster at Lakehurst the day fpeforé yesterday. @lhey ate Mra. HMargeret Sallinger of 28 Maple street, Miss Helen Riley of 302 Townsend street and Carl Artner ef 36 Bayard «treet, Mrs. Sallin- #er's companions on a pleasure trip to watch the mooring of the Buge air liner. . . "Youll never forget it; you can’t forget it—but it seems to be like a @ream; it doesn’t seem possible,” anid Mrs. Sallinger last night in describing her experience. it -was the greatest thrill of her life, she said, to stand by the fence that keeps spectators back and watch the long ailvery eky liner frome down to earth. “But the explosion was not a thrill,” she said, “It was a shoc “At first a sheet of flame ahot like Sreworks from the tall. We thought was some sort of a signal,” And then Mirs, Ballinger went on. came. the frst explosion. Spectators Stunned “ The deafening roar, much ipud- er than the loudest frework! Footed the spectators, stunned their tracks. A moment later the second blast sent a sheet of flame tearing through the shiAing huil, the casing weeming to fly off. all at once, and pandemonium broke Jocee. Everyone on the sidelines was running and screaming hysterically Unning Sha screaming nysiericaiuy. We thought the end had come,” whe gaid. “I grabbed Helen’s \rm and she grabbed mine, I uess, and we just ran.” But soon the panic was over. ome of the women werg still vsterical, but the crowd was ctning to watch the end of, the eppelln, not themselves, “We-saw one old woman atand- ing there. t imagine it was by her Bhe was crying,” said. “Men were standing there dazed, Two girls were running. “Miss Riley wae hysterical, and while I was more calm on the out- side, inside I felt pretty terrible. T was shaking. My legs were so weak that I could herdiy meve. The chap we were with felt pretty bad. He was aa pale as a ghost.” Mr, Artner is of German atock and has taken the experience herder than his two companions. He Wad led the party to see the pride of the Fatherland complete its first 1837 trip to the United States, after having seen jt leave on its last trip in 1936. “Everything was in confusion for about five minutes,” Mrs. Sal- linger went on, “Everyone was running back and forth and then of course the field ambulances and fire trucka and the plane passenger cars went right in. “We saw a man being led from the wreck. His hair wag all gone ~except a little knot right on the top of his head, and his coat was ripped from his back and hie trousers were torn and he was all burned. He atemed dazed, not uttering a sound. His eyes were staring straight ahead. “Two guards Jed him within 15 feet of the apectatora so we could Zao hin haw wrarea iInabines fan Bcc silt. aHeyY Were «aCOming scr someone who knew him and could help him, They asked the people if anyone recognized him. “We saw a men in an ambu- lance, His face and head were all red and we could see al) the Blood and all his clothes seemed to be byrned. Two internes or wKUatds were holding hint up.” Bhe was being held up. | eons, | Mra. Sallinger ' .