BALLOONIST'S ESCAPE

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 722, 22 January 1910, Page 13

BALLOONIST'S ESCAPE

'■' ■: : . ■'"■'SAVED BY "X TEEE.. , :- : : ; :i ■ •At the double balloon ascent at the Wβ- !■ Wide Jnbileo Oval on Saturday afternoon January .8, there wjs an exciting para- : chut© descent by Zahn Rinaldo. His mate,. Albert Eastwood,' nia.de a trinlo descent from an altitude ol : 4500 feet and RinaldOj who was to race him down released his parachute:at 5000 feet He dropped half-way-with- the use''of two .parachutes rotationally. -.Then his final to fully. It rera«in«d partially dosed, and he could not shako out the folds. His parachute attained a remarkable, velocity, covering over 2000 feet in Gsec. Fortunately for the aeronaut ho landed in a big fig' treo in the Quninbi Nursing Home, North AdelaideHe tore .the bark off : the limbs of■• the treo as ho , dashed throngh, ; but his fall was broken, mid:thus a serious accident or a ■ tragedy, was averted. Rinaldo was rarned into the home, and treated by the nnrses. It. was some time before his respiration became normal. His injuries qiily consisted of bruises on tho hin and leg. When-ho. fell through I the . treo ho landed within, a yard of-a" baby'in-a and within two yards of a .'lady .patient; who ran screaming away df the sudden apparition. ' . . ' -