AMERICAN AERONAUT'S FALL.
A large balloon, apparently tenantesls since its envelope was split, recently fell from a great height into a field near Glasgow, Kentucky. When some local farmers reached the wreck they found in it two unconscious meo, who were subsequently identified as Mr A. Holland Forbes, vice-president of the American Aero Club, and Mr J. U. Yates, a New York astronomer. the object of establishing a long-distance record, and at the same time of making observations of Halley's comet, Messrs Forbes and Yates started in the balloon Viking from Quincy. Illinois, on the Monday. No food, drink, or ballast was, found in the remnants of the balloon. Mr Forbes recovered consciousness twenty-four hours after the accident He murmured incoherently something about having "pulled the valve cord too violently and torn the bag." Both the hapless aeron - auts seem to be suffering from grave internal injuries.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10029, 1 July 1910, Page 3
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147AMERICAN AERONAUT'S FALL. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10029, 1 July 1910, Page 3
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