The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1859-09-17
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BEING seated in the car, while Mr.. lager
was Standing up, / asked him whether 1T was
the fall we heard. He locked out and said
If was the trees below that were making
such a noise.' / instantly rose, and percelv-
ing the balloon swooping down with fearful
velocity. and also seeing La Mountain ex-
tremely energetic in heaving over ballast, l
did somewhat excitedly exclaim, For Gods
sake. La Mountain, throw over everything
that comes in your hands! Over with your
cop-wheels and fans !"-but in another mo-
ment, and Just as we were sweeping by a
piece of woodland, and near to the surface OF
the earth, at about two miles a minute, Mr..
La Mountain cried out, sAll right-now she
is rising -,
Here we intended to make a beautiful
and systematic halt, but there was no hating
there. We were now over as violent a gale
as ever blew on lake shore-to land would
be destruction, and up we scared Tor safety
hoping at the worst to get out OF the mann
drift of this terrific gale. Mr.. Hyde now also
mounted the upper car, and Mr.. La Noun
tain remained in the boat to get all things
ready he could, to heave over after all our
sand ballast had run out, and | handed him
the last remaining sack in mine, as we were
out forty or fifty miles from land. He was
cool, anu WOTk6Q llhc a lCIOs Qud hCPt Va
ing, we can reach the other shore But
then our perils will be greater than on the
water said |, and is it not better to try and
swamp the balloon in the lake, and be provi-
dentially picked up, if we cannot be dragged
to shore, rather than be mangled in the woods
in this gale?'
"Mr. Hyde said mo, l am prepared to die,
but l would rather die on the land than in
the water and he was serious in what he
said. Turning to Mr.. eager, l remarked,
what do you say to it, Il would rather
take it on dry land, too was his response.
Mr.. La Mountain overhearing the consulta-
ton, said, mo, gentlemen, don't let us
swamp here, | can't go the water-my health
won't permit it shall soon perish can cut
away part of the boat for ballast; | can keep
her up The next moment bang went the
broadslde of the boat against a white-capped
wave-crash goes a second concussion-and
La Mountains head in the wave. 1t was a
fearful moment, as | saw his hat coming up
under the boat, and thought he was gone; >
but In another moment | heard him say,
Now we rise again. as we saw our carpet
bag following his hat, and the Atlantic rose
once more, but very little above the surface
of the water. The air was thick and cold.
which operated seriously on the ascending
quality of the gas.
"Having now neared the shore, MIR. La
Mountain also came into the basket car, and
in a few moments more we struck the shore
a hundred yards from the water. The an
Choir caught something, but the first jerk
broke its one and a quarter inch thick prong
off, moving down the branches like grain
before a reaping machine. Again and again
we endured these terrific concussions-the
strong hoop and basket acting as barriers TO
the breaking of our bones and heads. After
h~urrying along this way for a mile, we were
dashed into the fork of a tall tree-the basket
wedged through it, and the boat-ropes tangled
in the limbs below. This brought the Allan
tic to for a moment, but recovering her sail
like form, with another swoop, and in another
moment she was up in the air, only to sweep
down again with the weight of the tree-top
hanging to her. This brought her plump
down on a lofty elm and collapsed her, and
in another moment we were dangling in mid
air. by the net, having caught on the branches
of the tree.
1--WE landed at twenty minutes past 2 z.
NJ, St. Louis time, on the ground of L. 0.
Whitney, township of Henderson, county Of
Jefferson, State of New York.
"Thus ended this interesting trip, after
having travelled near twelve hundred miles In
nineteen hours. with no more intrinsic peri!
in its nature than steamboating or railroading,
when properly managed and properly under
stood. Getting in the gale was an accident
that ships of any kind are liable to-"