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It was September 3, 1925 when the giant dirigible Shennadoah crashed to the earth near Ava OH, along I-77 north of Marietta.
Creston resident Seward Lynch with his photographer buddy went to the site, a disaster that killed 14 of 43 aboard.
"I saw a house that the dirigible knocked down part of the chimney and a pear tree in the yard had lost its limbs. There was wreckage all over the place. A person told us about a crewman dropping a rope and asking it to be tied down, for an escape. They tied it up to a tree stump, but it wouldn't hold and they found a bigger tree."
"Part of the ship broke away, falling into a garden and leaving crewmen dangling from the free-floating balloon, struggling for life."
"It was dark scene of death."
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