The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-07-22

and search for the bodies, and received in
reply the following from Capt. Prindivjlle:
L nave spoken to the superintendent, Mr..
Harmon, and he thinks it would be entirely
useless 10 send a tug to hunt up the bodit s
on the lake, for she might look around for 4
month or more without being able to dis
cover them. 1t is merely by accident that
boats in passing discover anything of that
KIND, Tor they show but for very short dis
lance. IL he thought there was chance in
thousand of discovering them, he would
willingly send boat out.
Very respectfully,
M. PRINDIvILLE.
Later the Evening Journal applied to Adj
mirel Cox, and it is exceedingly probable
that the large tug L. B. Johnson will be sent
ont 20 skirt along the shore. If neither OF
the bodies are found, there may be s"Dle
hope Of recovering ihe remains of the bal
loon. Unless it was loaded down with sand
bags IL would project out OF the water enough
TO carry it slowly before the wind. The
great query regarding the fate of
the balloonists still engrossess the
Of determined facts seems to
render the anxiety still greater. A visit to
the office OF the United States Signal Ser
vice office yesterday afternoon resulted in
the obtaining of some facts not hitherto
published. Maj. Kaufman stated that the
wind on Friday morning at thirty minutes
was blowing at the rate of
THIRTY-Two MILES AN HOUR.
The probabilities for the twenty-four hours,
showed: "FOr the lake region, falling
barometer, southeast to south vest winds,
warm and increasingly cloudy weather, and
rain areas" Major Kaufman took an OBJ
servation just before the storm began, and
| also tested the velocity of the wind when
Z L 10 m an uvar To ri he
stated that the wind often blew on Mt
Washington and Pixies Peak at the rate Of
| forty miles an hour, and ninety miles was
the greatest velocity. The speed of hurri
cane is so and 100 miles an hour. The wind
on the lake the night the balloon went up
would probably reach 40 miles an hour, as it
| bad less resistance than on shore. The in
dications published on Thursday morning
and afternoon, previous to the balloon as
cension. should have been examined, and
would have been by most aeronants before
a voyage was made. Donaldson, it seems,
/ took no notice of them From
the above observations some deduc-
ito as have been made. 1t is variously esti-
mated that Lake Michigan is from fifty To
eighty miles wide on the average, and on
that basis the calculations following are
i made: The distance travelled by the balloon,
in the event of its continuing direct flight
would be ninety-slX miles, IL speed oil
thirty-two miles an hour was reached, be.
tween 4:30 and 1880 p. NJ, when darkness
came on. The gale came on at 1870 A. NJ
Friday morning, and therefore eight hours
would have elapsed between The
hour of the ascension and thai
time. In the event of speed
of ten miles an hour being reached, the ba
loon would have had ample time TO pass th'
lake and reach the Michigan shore, If theil
calculations do not extend to a great alti
tude. There are no dates showing the velocity
OF the wind at great attitudes, and balloon
i.ts' estimates are only depended upon
The trip from st. Louis to Adams, n. Y, il
1862 was a remarkable one, and Lake On
, tario was crossed In terrible gale at rat
{ of speed calculated at so miles an hour.