SHOCKING ACCIDENT
BOY'S TERRIBLE DEATH
FALLS: FROM-A BALLOON
-Received, this itiornin,}i,. , l24-20 ; o'iclock.) NEW YORK. August 31.
A small boy was accidentally caught J in the rope of a balloon at Flint, in Michigan. He was lifted up 2000 I feet in midair. .''•..'
The aeronaut worked frantically to pullthe rope, to-which the-, boy was clinging, .into the car, ' but failed: The body fell to the earth, and crash-. Ed through the roof of a barn.
A huge crowd witnessed- the acci-' dent. p Many of the women fainted. •
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10710, 2 September 1912, Page 5
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88SHOCKING ACCIDENT Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10710, 2 September 1912, Page 5
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