PERILOUS ADVENTURE OF AN AERONAUT.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3733, 11 December 1880, Page 1

PERILOUS ADVENTURE OF AN AERONAUT.

The St. Petersburg Herald jut received, contains the particulars of the adventures of the Kuisian aeronaut Kadolph, who ascended in a balloon on the Bth ult., and had been several days reported mining. "The day selected for the flight wm not a good one. the wind being strong and boisterous. My companion was Professor Baraacvsky, of the Meteorological Observatory. On entering the car, I sang oat to the twelve sailors holding it to Met go.' As the men dropped tho ropes, a sudden gust of wind struck the balloon and dashed it against some neigl*o.uring trees, the branches of which tore a hole in the silk before, it had time to rise. I threw out baUast, but to no purpose. The car : drifted along the ground till it approached* f a lake, when I begged the. professor to r leave with his instruments. The sailors running up just then, seised hold of tM : ropes, and enabled Bannovsky^get«ot. They begged me earnestly to do the same, on account of the dangerous position of the .balloon, but I refused. The professor being clear of the car, I .shouted to them-to' let go.' All obeyed vtfca summons except one man, who was iffcried several feet into the air, and te>ped amidst a general Mar of laughter. Ifef this, the balloon sailed along tolerably well, and flew for fifty, minutes through the air. when, the gas being exhausted, it fell near the village of Bootohi. In a few minutes it was surrounded by fpen. and woman, who proceeded tapear it to piece* and appropriate afftha articles in thf^ear, including a fifteen guinea, btoocnlllMl>sMp* forgotten by ProfessoVßarattofiky^KPl^ all probability I should also have eprperiehoed roughrusage, but the opportune arrival of a elonel of the Impeml Guards and-two soldiers from a neigh- , bouring tbateiu. For a few minutes, the peasants refused to release me, and defied tbeoolodoi; *ot bis determined mttitude and" threats.^ send for moire soldiefs,' conplcd witklhe present of a few routtea if buy them drink, induced them- to .relinquish me, though not "my property. .. The^colonel very^ k&dly took me homer a«d wanted me to;mWtai raid goto bed ■here and the»; but tknew my wife and ebildren would be anxious about me, to he put me in his careiaflfwith the balloon, and giviiigmetwos^i%.te protect jme, : sen.tmeofft6 the reUwa| station. Tw<» ' daTsinbedhare somewhat restored me, # but I still feel the effatts of the bumps of ; the balloon and the tftapiwof the Eooteai oeasants." • ■- X-- •• '• - ■',■ -' * .