German Dirigible Wrecked.

New York Times 100 years ago today, October 11, 1912:
Explosion of Gas Destroys It and the Building Containing It.
    BERLIN, Oct. 10.— Germany's aerial fleet suffered a severe loss to-day by the total wrecking by explosion of one of its immense military dirigible balloons and of the hall in which it was stationed at Reinickendorf, a suburb of Berlin.
    The dirigible, which was of the semirigid type, with internal air balloonets to preserve its shape invented by Major Gross of the Prussian Army, was being refilled with hydrogen gas by soldiers of the flying corps.
    The gas was being passed into the envelope from metal cylinders when the friction of the gas itself on the filling tube caused fire to start. A violent explosion ensued, completely destroying the dirigible and blowing the hall to splinters.
    None of the crew was injured.