The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1863-11-20
A Perilous Balloon Voyage.

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tober, with several persons in the car
Nadar remained in the air nineteen hours.
and .raveleda distance ofslx hundred and
fifty kilometres. The following telegram
to bis brother briefly tells the story of his
peril:
1--WE came down near Neuburc. in the
kingdom Of Hanover, at about noon on
! Monday. We were dragged for several
! hours, orr anchors having broken. Saint
Felix. nv wife and myself are seriously
hurt: the Others are pretty well. Send
me doctor from Paris; Pelican, if pos
sible, or another if he is absent. Send
news to Saint Felix. Darnoud. and Your
families etc. LIE; little Paul be sent to
US. Paul is NJ. Madras son. and the re,
quest that he should De sent to Hanover
naturally causes intense anxiety TO NJ Ma
dar's friends W. owe our lives to the
courage and devotedness Of Jules GODDARD
Tomorrow further details.
EADAR"
NJ Eugene Arnold, one Of the passer>
gers in NJ. Na1ar's balloon, writes as fol
lows TO the Paris Nation:
"Unlappilv the heavens had made us
! forget the earth. over which blew wind
So violent that in few minutes our an
| ckprs, enormous fulcrums of iron. were
| broken. The valve was shut, and the bal
! loon, which could carry us no logger be ,
gan giddy career We rose from TWEEN
! " 20 thirty metres. and fell with incredi.
! be force. Little bv little the balloon
ceased to rise and the car fell npon its
side. Then began a furious, dsnr''e:lv
race; all disappeared before us-trees,
thickets, walls. all broken or burst through
by the shock it was frighrful Some
times it was lake, in which we plunged I:
a bog, the thick mud of which entered our
mouths and ewes 1t was madaenng. =
stop! Stop.' we shouted enraged with
the monster who was dragging US along
! A railway was before us--a train passing :;
it stopped AT our cries. bat We carried
away the Geographic posts and wire An
instant afterwards we perceived in the
distance a red house | sec it now /; the
wind bore rs straight Tor this house, II
was death for all, for we should he dashed
to pieces No one spoke. Strange to
say, of those nine persons. one of whom
was lady, who were rIinging to slender
screen of osier, for whom every second
| seemed counted not one had any fear
All tongues were mura, all ia .es were
pale. Na!ar held his wife. covering her
with his body. Poor woman. Every
shock seemed to break her to pieces
Jules GODDARD then tried and accom-
p!iShed an act Of sublime heroi>m. lie
clamhered up into The netting, the shocks
Of which we're so terrible that three times
he fell on my head at length lie reached
the cord Of the valve, opened it and the
gas having way of escape the monster
ceased to rise, but it sill shot along in a
horizontal line with prnligious rapidity
There were we sqnat'ing down upon the
frail osier car. Take caren' we cried.
when tree was in the way: but the bal
loon was diScharging its gas and. if The
immense pain We were crossing had vet
few leagues we were saved. But suddenly
forest appeared in the horizon; we must
X,
would he dashed TO pieces at the first coI~
lisiou with those trees. got down into
the ear. and raising myself | know not
how for | suffered from wound in my
knees-my trowsers were torn, jumped
| made know not how many revolutions.
and fell upon my head. After minutes
dizziness rose. The car WAS then far off
BY the aid OF stick l dragged myself out
OF the forest, and having gone few steps
| heard some groans. Saint Felix was
stretched on the soil frigh,f,Ily di>fgured
his face was one wound. He had
an arm broken, the chest torn and
An ankle disncated. The car had dis
appeared in the forest after crossing a
river"
heard a cry. Nadar was stretched on
the ground with a dislocated thigh his
wife had fallen into the river. Another
companion was shattered. We occupied
ourselves with St. Felix and Naiar and
his wife. In trying to assist the latter
WAS nearly drowned, FIR fell into the wa
ter and sank. They fi,hed me out again,
and found the bath had done me good
By the assistance of the inhabitants the
remnants were got together. Vehicles
were brought, they placed rs upon straw
Ny knees blqd, nv loins and head seem
ed 10 be Ike mincemeat but did not
lose my presen' Of mind an instant, and
| for a second I felt hunliated at looking
! from the truss of straw at those clouds
which in the night had under nv feet.
1t was in this way we reached Ru,hen, in
Hanover.
In seventeen hours we had male nearly
two hundred and fly leagues Our
course internale had covered a space of
three leagues. Now that it is over have
some shudderings. 1t does not signify 4;
we have made a good journey and mar
vel to see with what indifference we NAV
regard tie most frightful death for. be-
sides the prospect Of being dashed about
on our own way we had that of being IA =
ken out 10 sea, and how long should We
have lived then? am glad to have seen
this-happier yet at having TO narrate it
to YOU These Germans who surround
us are brave people, and we have been as
vel! cared for "a the resources of the lit
! ,l. Snot will allow