Arkansas true Democrat., 1858-10-20
I From the St. Louis Democrat of the ss Tho
 The Late Balloon Tragedy in Illinois-s sine l fhenfic Parficul,ra

1hes'artllng story of the late frightful a have| of twosmall children alone in balloon ..
 naturally excited some incredulity, whiee
 turn, has been increased by the rather dfnents| account given of the event. But the retti prese| our cityof the aronaut, Mr s. NJ. Brooks.a .aean Dies us p give an authentic confnnatiorn;, <, fI true vefson of the thrilling narrative. gentleman kindly informs us substantial feade1 follows: cate il
 He was to have ascended. from theas tb| grounds Centralia, on Friday, the 17th ,a sor but finding himself unweIl, acceptelthe F "
 of anothereronaut, Mir. Wilson, who volurf ed to takehs place in the balloon. MT. son effectei beautiful ascent, at 5ls pne sol floating wstward, and then southeastwardthe b| ing two alit a half miles, and atabout 6 h k he Il descended, sixteen miles seutheastward otconst| starting pont. He was caught by tree sunstr,j forty i've reds from the farm house Of M the Il Jamn Harvey. The spot is some twSa ay to| and half rom Rorhe, Jefferson county. Se rd
 Harvey and his family, and others gathekwo and dlSentangled the air-ship. They then Ter in ed the car to the ground, and some boys Es to the ropes the voyageur alighted, and ks sol ne was drawn off in conversation with tn ks3f fl quisitive people, the balloon was lowed tel % house. and MT. Harvey prepared to have sc po| sport by rising the length of the rope, to be e Sa
 ed down. Proving too heavy to rise, he Aediat ped out, atd put in his three children--4s free of three years, girl of eight, and still s by Il girl. tnot
 At this point MT. Wilson called out to ainish| holding the ropes to be sure and hold fasesssd| But the three children were too heavy, andlst?
 oldest was taken out. At this'instant, through
 the unwatchfulness of the person at the ctevide| the balloon suddenly and very swiftly wenta in Il The anchor struck rail fence, but tore it ascolui while cry of horror burst from the agonfn tbd group. The children screamed with hosSlar| and the piteous appeal "pullne down fatierver1 as it instantly grew fainter and fainter, rends is q
 the parents, and, indeed, all present. fofence| time, perfectly frantic It was now past sart se| o'clock, was becoming dark, and the ball pow was soon. .ioss sight of '! A period of morThe 1 tense wretchedness to the parental heart supoI scarcely be imagined. favn1
 As there was little wind the balloon Mer1 gone almost directly upward, till its disapttS tSal] ance in a asoutheastly course. Messengers Aessi| dispatched through the region in every dfticn4 tion, and the alarm spread rapidly, creay to| everywhere the intensest excitement I've St| quarters the men aud boys rallied in parti tssand SCOUT the country and search the woodms &nsfroi exPectation-that the victims would sorIsex ple p| descend and be subjected to the perispf dfJstes q ing, or else of starving uudscov overed. 4 fhe
 At Centralia the intelligence caused an Mitica| scrlbabe sensation. The popular anxiety-s equ| most agony-called out Mir. Brooks, who ion J sured the people that the balloon would prove al ply descend within two or three hours sthe d within, at most, thirty miles of the poinlst b@ starting. lie also sent to the distracted parsme the best assurance possible in the case, nfoout s ing them that there would be no danger exqincr| from descent in the woods, when the ehildsase ] might be with difficulty found. and from ms fo| older child's first stepping out and leaving doom younger agsin to rise Apart from these pc. Bnt in themselves improbable, MT. Brooks aphich hended no danger to the little voyagers. he in| the idea became current that they must snco,n h| ter frigid atmosphere which they codM ave N survive. ,at fl
 It was about o'clock on Saturday. morr-T th| that Mir. lgnatin Atchison. living on Moq,e otI prairie, eight miles from Mount Vernon, goty nnl as he says and went out upou his porch ,ildll see the blazing star"--the cofnets An imme m spectre rising from tree, about twenty ysl .5y,|| distant rather appalled, him, and hs e-entey yGst the houseand awoke his family. On his oss wd ing out again weak and pteous voice called ado Hiiii HOii cpOStiCs Comc 1efe aIQ let pI down, we're almost froze' Mr. Atchison speets dily precsved the astonishing nature of the cssstra
 mustered help, cut away several limbs of fl,e SI tree, anddrew the Car in safety ta the groanr al
 The little boy was first lifted out, and whe,uld placed upon his feet instantly ran for seyeiaw. yards, then turned, and for moment coaa f| templated the balloon with sppsre%iiy intsny t| curiosity The little girl told thsirsornws and il a1r Il = these people, who, strangely indeed, had ne5o| hearl ofihe disaster. m,
 A messenger arrived at MT. Harvey's, eigh.k teen miles distant, at P. NJ, with the trsbse Il porting tdngs that the children were safe. z .e
 We will leave 1t to our readers heart to spsch gest the joy which the intelligence caused. pal was latein the afternoon when the little onesf v
 rived and were clasped once more in the *ejuq brace oftheir parents. sA ss;.sg iu rel
 The happy result was redeived Ii Censralsow and announced on Sunday ndotqing in Tr| churchss amid ecstacies of ieyyss The ctddfb were bought there on Monday and wel pal lor,l with he firing of cannon and gshsral jubils sorts
 Photographic portraits of them were taSell s,ro Mr. Wm. B. Matthews, artissin Csnsraliasf sl a variHy of presents were made to them. |{] girl shamed Martha Ann and her iltis bleth Vs l David dIsam. She says that he sooH Hcfied hbs ,1 self teseep, and that she cried till She slel a,,] little, and then awakened in the tree,1 lk,i
 Mir. Brooks affirms that the balloon ' M ' have Descended by eleven o'clock Of Fri s,y f| night.and hence had remained inthe tree '.
 its dbcovery through the kindness of " ..i'
 blazing star" and the astronomical wakefnlnalas
 of Mi Atchison.
 MF Brooks has the photographic portrats' a' the juvenile adventures, which we suppose nJ4s
 soon te seen by all the curious, at tue St. Los"
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