BALLOONIST'S DEATH.
VICTIM OF HIGH ALTITUDE SUFFOCATION. (8T CABtJS-PRMS ASSOCUTION-COfTRIGHT.) AXD N.Z. CASLZ ASSOCIATION.) (Received November 6th, 5.5 p.m.) NEW YORK, November 5. At Sparta (Tennessee) Captain Hawthorn Gray, an Army balloonist, evidently the Victim of high altitude suffocation, was found dead in a balloon in i tr©c ton* Captain Grav left Belleville (Illinois) vesterdav in ai attempt to break the World's altitude record for balloons, using an armv bag of 80,000 cubic feet inflated with hydrogen. The dead pilot's log was found tightly clasped in his liand. One entn? read : ''Blue sky—sun very bright—sand/ all gone—4o.ooo feetmusic gone—'antennae out." Another entry ran: "Threw out last sandbags at 40'.000 feet." The existing record ia 34:424 feet.
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19151, 7 November 1927, Page 9
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