A LADY AERONAUT’S NARROW ESCAPE.
Carlotta, the lady aeronaut, who made* a balloon ascension from the Chenango* County Fair Grounds, at the recent fair,, found herself in rather an unpleasant, situation before she reached the end of' her ride. She first landed on the farm of Simon Turner, in Preston, some five miles from Norwich, after a trip of about half an hour, during which she reached an elevation of two miles. Encountering a cloud of rain, she threw out ballast and everything in the basket, but the balloon became heavy from the rain, and, decending, dragged from the tops of forest trees, finally lodging on the top of i basswood tree, eighty feet high. A party of men who were out hunting discovered her perilous situation, and proceeded to the rescue, which was no slight task. A long ladder was procured, and upon ascending the tree it was found necessary to cut the limbs from it, and the lady was with difficulty rescued, after remaining in the tree-top fur an hour and a half, in a drenching, storm.—“ Courtland Standard.”
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2410, 7 December 1880, Page 2
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181A LADY AERONAUT’S NARROW ESCAPE. South Canterbury Times, Issue 2410, 7 December 1880, Page 2
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