THRILLING EXPERIENCE.
ACCIDENT TO A BALLOON.
Secieved October 12, 11.3 p.m. BERLIN, October 12. The Gordon-Bennet international race started yesterday. Twenty-three balloons- competed, and each had three days' provisions. The American balloon' Conqueror containing A Forbes: and Majpr jfcEexrsy, shot up to 4,0.00 feet r and then, the 800 spectators present were horrified to see the envelope slit up,, amd the balloon drop like a stoiae. The envelope then bulged into a parachute, slackening the rate of descsiat. The wrecked! masa disappeared behind some 1 houses in a suburb. It was soon ascertained that the envelope hung one side of a- building,' balancing the basket on tSse other. Messrs Foubes and Haray were unhurt.
Mar Forbes, in an> interview, said that hearing the balloon; slit he cut awaj? thirty bags of balilast, and Mapr Hersy threw out everything possible, and the balloon parachute finally. The whole incident showed ihow safe ballooning'realiy is.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3017, 13 October 1908, Page 5
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152THRILLING EXPERIENCE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3017, 13 October 1908, Page 5
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