DESCENTS IN PARACHUTES.

Thousands of folk ran to the pier alongside the Humber, and were able to pick out where the ill-fated ship had found her last restingplace. A long distance away huge volumes of dense blue smoke could he seen rising towards the sky.

Upon my arrival at the pier the river front was densely lined by onlookers watching the grim spectacle. There lay the monster which, a few minutes before, had been regarded as the aerial pride of the world. It lay on the surface of the water, a twisted mass of fabric and framework, with portions of its length burning for hundreds of feet along the top of the water. The only part which bore any resemblance to an airship was the stem portion, which stood up ballooned for a considerable height. Tugs and boats of all descriptions hastily put off to the scene with a view to picking up the survivors. Evidently those on board must have been struggling with disaster even before the people below saw the catastrophe, for a number of the crew shot out from the vessel and came down in parachutes.