Daily globe., 1881-10-22
THE LOST FOUND.

4A11 AVO1 IVU NUs
The Missing Balloonists Reach Chippewa
Falls, WIS.,, In Safety-Five Days in a
Cranberry Bog without Food-A Hard
Trip but Luckily not Fatal.
Especial Telegram to the Globe]
CHIPPEWA FALLS, Wis, Oct. 21.-A Chip
pewa Falls Times extra of this morning gives
the following.
"The lost balloonists, Prof. Samuel King
and Mr.. j. &. Hashagen, who ascended from
Chicago on Thursday, the 18th inst, have
| just reached this city, at 8 a. m., coming in
| from the north and are now at the Times office
| They report having landed last Friday at 2:15
| p. m. in a swamp in section 9, town IS, range
| they wandered four days without food when
| they found themselves at the
stopping place of Mr.. Bruno .Venette,
ten miles from the place of
| their landing who brought them to this
place. They effected their landing intention
ally, supposing they were near st. Paul,
being misled by the Flambeau river
which they took for the Mississippi river.
Finding out their mistake after it was past
guided by compass, but owing to the over.
flowed swamps they had to make so many
deviations and circuits that the compass was
practically useless, and they wandered four
days through one of the worst swamps in the
state, in circuit of about fifteen miles. At
the end of the fourth day they were
fortunately guided to Mr.. Bruno Venette's
place from the opposite OF the Flambeau, by
hearing a cow bell. Mr.. V. brought
them across the river and on the following
day guided them back to their balloon from
the description they gave him of It's surround.
ings. They put it in shape to be preserved
until winter when they will get it out.
Their course was at first southwest through
Illinois, then westward and afterwards north
easterly.
Prof. King and Mr. Hashagan are pleasant
gentlemen and entertained a large number of
our citizens during the morning with des-
cription OF their voyage. They leave on the
4:40 train this afternoon over the Chicago,
st. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha railroad for
Chicago.
The following has just been received from
Chippewa Falls, Wis: We are all safe. Just
off the woods.
(Signed) KING, Balloonist.
Chippewa Falls is situated on the Chippewa
river about 1S5 miles northwest of Madison
HAsHAGEN's STORY.
CHICAGO, Oct. 21.--The Daily Neavs has the
following from j. G. D. Hashagen, signal
observer, who went up in Kings balloon !:
Chippewa Falls, Oct. 21.--The voyagers who
took such hasty flight last Thursday from
civilization, felt no such disposition to-day.
If you should see us now dragged, torn, water
soaked and exposed, you would surely think
we loved civilization more than before. Five
minutes after leaving terra frma we reached
an altitude of 4,200 feet moving southwest
A few minutes later we reached an upper cur
rent moving slowly westward, so slowly that
we barely moved. But what a pros
pect beneath us. We were soon
Shut out by night and had nothing but
myriads of lights twinkling in the distance.
We remained there suspended, neither rising
nor falling for several hours, but at last a puff
of air sent us southwest, changing, before
morning to west and northwest. While going
southwest we remained becalmed about three
hours swinging over small city that, from
its location, judged to be Peoria, III.
At 5:15 a. M Friday we passed over Spring
Valley, Wis, startling the natives by dragging
our drag rope over their roofs, and one
ambitious fellow sent a shot after us.
We passed over the Platte mounds at 7:15
a. m. We remained for a long time swinging
round these picturesque mounds, where the
balloon, as though anxious to give us a
heavenly view, took an upward turn, carry
ing us 1000 feet above the strata of clouds,
literally burying us in milk for an hour.
In passing Little Falls, Monroe county,
Wis.,, we came SO near the ground that we
come in contact with the trees and were COM
PEELED to take large portion of one along as
souvenir. When we neared the ground we
were greeted with beautiful view of the ver
dure in every variety of form. Children were
hushed, dogs called off, horses whipped up
and old country matrOns stood within doors
with arms akimbo and with the
most surprising and comical attitude
Ats a. m. we passed over Patton
or soma similar named place: At 94O a. m.
arose among the clouds and lost sight of
mother earth for few hours. The wind in
creasing took us at rapid rate probably forty
or fifty miles per hour and not being able to
discern stationary objects we could not tell
where we were or what course we were pursu-
ing. Meanwhile rain poured in torrents.
Collecting on the outside of the balloon 1t
poured down the mouth of the
bag into the basket in steady stream, COM
it was useless. There was not dry pin-head
among them.
At 12:45 the highest known elevation was
reached, being 5000 feet. From the last per-
son we found we were told we were 40 miles
from st. Paul, and when we descended, at 2:3O
p. M, on the west bank OF the river, One-hal1
mile inland, we concluded we were in the state
of Minnesota, probably 40 miles from st. Paul,
on the Mississippi river.
With this supposition in mind We stepped out
of our car into about eighteen inches of Ice
water, and found we were In cranberry bog.
Our experience after this for the succeeding
five days is too horrible. How we walked
five days up to our knees through boggy
swamps without food, except a half pint OF
berries. How wolves and bears
prowled around US at nights;
how we slept on vet ground at night through
heavy frosts only to start again in the morn
ing, through swamps, with its ice water and
falling over muddy logs at every step, cannot
be put in words. As a last resort, we built a
raft expecting to go over Saint Anthony
Falls. Of our subsequent disappointment and
our subsequent tramp, I will tell later; but,
oh! our joy when at 4 o'clock in the evening
on the fifth day we reached Flambeau river,
and were carried across by Clivermore Ber-
trand and Michael Miner, woodmen, and here,
we are enjoying the good things before us.
[Signed] j. GEORGE HAsHAGAN.
Ded icsfion Of Franklin Avenue NJ e
Church.
The fine new Franklin avenue NJ. E. church,
will be dedicated tomorrow, at 1890 IN the.
forenoon. The following IS the programme
of the ceremonies 1. voluntary anthem;
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