AN AERONAUT'S ADVENTURE.
Brisbane, April 17.
Just as everything was ready for a balloon ascent at Gympie, the balloon naught lire, and shot into the air with Miss Essio Viola and herparaclmto.
The aeronaut with great difficulty maintained her seat, and went up nearly a mile, the lire gradually spreading all the while. Viola was nimble to detach the parachute, as tlio ropes were entangled. After travelling somo distance she bogan to fall, and the parachute opened, but would not work.
Finally it, too, caught fire, when still some distanco from the ground. When' near the earth, Viola jumped clear of the burning mass, and escaped unhurt, The balloon ami parachute were destroyed.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5003, 18 April 1895, Page 2
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113AN AERONAUT'S ADVENTURE. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5003, 18 April 1895, Page 2
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