Shocking Fatal Accident
China papers bring news of a balloonparachute fatality at Saigon to Mr Victor Valazie. Tho balloonist, in excellent spirits, was carried to a height of about 2000 foot. At tho expected moment he was observed to let go. But tho parachute refused to open, and he descended, it is calculated, bOO foot before tho parochute oponed. This it did with so sudden a jerk that Vala/io lost liis hold, and was seen rapidly to fall. The right arm mado a convulsive effort to regain its hold, and then fell to the side, the left arm remaining abovo the bond. For some distance the umn fell in that position ; ho thon turned foot upwards, and foil with terrific forco through the roof of a browory to tho floor below, and was tD-1-igh.-d and disfigured beyond recognition.
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Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 137, 9 May 1893, Page 2
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