The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-06-14

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. to mark it down, went sadly home
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ance isn't yet at hand.
PETROLEUM V. MASSEY,
(Which wuz postmaster.)
HORROR OF THE AIR.
: Prightful Accident to an AerOnau
While Making an Ascension Seatet
on a TFaPeZe-The Ropes Dashe,
Against the GutteriDg of q Building
Severed, and the AerOnaut Hurled
Below.
The balloon ascension connected
with Noyes' circus is one of tina
shows great cards. Every after
noon immense crowds congregatC
on the bluffs to witness it. Yester.
day the usual multitude assembled
to witness Prof. Fisher, the eronaut,
perform his feats on the trapeze at
tached to the balloon with four
strong half-inch corr.
In making the as on, the bal
| loon-a common yellow affairs
| filled with hot air by the means OF
an alcoholic fire which is burned i'm
mediately beneath the lower and
open end of the canvass; when fill
ed Prof. Fisher leaps on his slender
trapeze, the fastening ropes are cut
loose, and the yellow monster goes
off like rocket i'll an upward di-
rection for about 500 feet, when it
yields TO the current of the wind
and goes with it. Both Thursday
and yesterday the balloon, after at
tanning the usual elevation, moved
rapidly off in southeasterly direc-
ton, the first day alightiEg on Beal
street, and yesterday striking the
Jackson block, on the southw est
corner of Main and Gayoso streets.
A large number of persons yes
terday went on the roof of the
Gayoso House, just in the rear of
the Jackson block, for the purpose
of witnessing the ascension, and
from one of them, who was an eye
witness, ali Avalanche reporter OBJ
tanned the following particulars
concerning the terrible accident,
which in all probability will cost
Prof. Fisher his life.
The balloon after being cut loose
shot directly upward and then NOV
ed directly towards the Gayoso
House. So certain were many of
the spectators on the roof that it
was coming directly over the house
that they ran down stairs. just be-
fore it reached the house, however,
it commenced to descend rapidly,
and in doing so swerved to the
north and left of the Gayoso and in
a direct line for the Jackson block,
which it struck moment later. In
striking the block the balloon prop
er was above the level of the roof,
while Prof. Fisher and the trapeZe
struck the wall some eight feet be-
meath the guttering of the roof. The
8ronaut's head struck the brick wall
first, but recovering himself he plac-
ed his feet against the wall and
pushed violently outward, with the
hope, doubtless, of clearing the roof.
All this time the huge inflated can
vass was Juggling away at the SIN all
ropes, which alone interviewed be-
tween Prof. Fisher and death. The
guttering OF the roof being of iron
with a sharp, almost knifelike out
er edge, in q few seconds severed
the ropes, which. by the combined
weight of the Professor and the bal
loon, were strained to their utmost
tension, and the man of the air with
loud cry, fell
DOWN, DOWN, DOWN,
a distance of at least fifty feet, and
alighting on an iron grating, which
his weight cracked as if of glass. In
falling the unfortunate man turned
several summersaults but with the
exception of The first short passion
ate cry, not a sound escaped him.
A large cellar extends under the
block, and through an open grating
he fell headlong. But for an iron
railing upon which he struck with
his right arm in going through the
grating, which changed his position,
he would have alighted on his head,
and death would have been instan-
taneous. The railing, however,
broke the force of The fall and
crushed the bones of l. right shoul-
uSE anu dE11i, huo Al - SAOAh5 ooNS0
his life temporarily.
The grating through which he fell
is directly in the rear of r. g. Craig
81 Co.'s seed store and just as he
shot by the window like q meteor,
one of the statesmen who was in the
rear of the store saw him. Run
ming ont and ascertaining that the
white aging object was q man, then
insensible and seemingly dead, the
clerk called for assistance and care
fully removed the wounded and al
most pulveriZed man up stars and
into the store. Surgeons and ply
sicians were summoned in a few
moments and everything possible
was done to alleviate the intense
suffering of the poor man. DIR
Hall, AFTER careful examination,
stated that the right shoulder arm
bone was
LITERALLY PULvERIZEE,
and that he was also suffering from
conclusion of the brain. A cash on
the right forehead, another on the
right cheek, and still another under
the right chin were the wounds
visible on the face. In the pit of
the left arm was q horrible cash,
fully three inches in length and ex-
tending into the socket. The latter