A LATE FATALBALLOON ACCIDENT.

Dunstan Times, Issue 689, 2 July 1875, Page 3

A LATE FATALBALLOON ACCIDENT.

o Tlia balloon Zenith, containing three aeronauts, MM Gaston Tissandier, CroedSpinelli, and Sivcl, ascended on its aerial voyage, on the 1 Oth nit., at noon, and reached an altitude of 5J miles at 1.30, when all the three occupants became unconscious. The balloon descending, tiny temporarily regained their senses, but throwing too much ballast out they onno more became unconscious, and when the balloon descended for the second time, on’y one M. Gaston Tissandier, awoke to life. The spot where, after some trouble, ho effected his descent, was Giron, a little village near Le Blanc, in the Department of the Indre. Here he was most kindly received and treated— the inhabitants doing their host to aid him, and to revive his companions, who, however, wore quite dead. Their bodies were ultimately carried to the barn of a neighboring farm, whence two days afterwards they were transported in a bullock cart to the railway station, to ho forwarded to Paris for burial in Fire lo Chaise Cemetery. All of the three aeronauts were well-known men, and had devoted much time and attention to aerial science, this being the hundred and fiftyfirst ascent of Captain Sival, a young naval officer, aged thirty-eight, who, besides his aerial trips, has made several voyages round the world. Ho was a widower, but has left a little girl to mourn his loss. M. CrocdSpinelli, aged thirty-one, was a moat devoted aeronaut, and was endowed with great energy. M. Gaston Tissandier, the survivor, is the editor of the French Journal La Nature, in which ho has published some remarkable articles on chemical science. He also greatly distinguished himself by his efforts to establish aeronautical communication between Paris and the Provinces during the late war. Curiously enough he was far the least robust of the three, and moreover ascended fasting, while

his companions had breakfasted. In conclusion, wo may repeat that a subscription is being raised in aid of the famili s of M M. Sivol and Orocd-Spinolli, which appears to have reached a trillo over L 150. Graphic.