Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1881-10-28
TIE BALLoONISTs ALL RIGHT.
They Land I'm Dense Woods I'm North
ern Wis and Rave n serious Time
Setting Ont.

They Land In Dense Woods I'm North
ern Wis. and Rave n serious Time
Setting Ont.
c. III. Summers of the Western Un-
ion Telegraph Co, received the follow
ing dispatch from Minneapolis:
Prot. King is at Chippewa Falls. His balloon
landed sixty-fye miles up the river from that
place, last Friday.
The Daily Neas of Chicago, Illinois
has the following from ]. G. HaShigan,
a signal service employe, who went up
in Kings balloon.
CHIPPEWA FAILS, Oct. 2I.
/ The voyagers who took such hasty
flight last Thursday from civilization,
feel no such disposition to-day. Ifyou
should see us now, dragged and water
soaked and exposed, you would surely
have thought we loved to see civiliza-
ton. Before five minutes after leaving
| terra .Frn'0, We reached an altitude of
1900 feet, moving southwest. A
few minutes later we reached an
upper current moving slowly west, Sc
slowly that We barely moved. but what
\ prospect beneath us. We were soon
shut out by night, and had nothing to
see but \ myriad Of lights twinkling i'll
the distance. We remained suspended
over them, neither rising nor falling.
for several hours, but at last pufr sent
us southwest, changing before morning
to northwest and west. While going
southwest We remained becalmed about
three hours, swinging over a small
circle that from its location Judged To
be Peoria, Ill. At 5;15 Z. NJ. Friday We
passed over Spring Valley, Wis, startling
the natives by dragging our drag rope
over their roofs, and one ambitious fell
low sent 4 shot after us as we passed
over the Platte mounds at 7I5 A. NJ.
We remained for long time swinging
round these mounds, when the balloon,
as though anxious to give us a heavenly
view, took an upward turn, earring lis
1000 feet above the strata of clouds
and literally hurrying us III the milk
for an hour. In passing the Little falls
at Monroe Corners we came so near
the ground that we came III con-
tact with the trees. and we were
compelled to take large portion
OF one along as souvenier. When
We neared the ground we we're greeted
with Il beautiful view of the verdure ii
every variety of form. Children were
hushed, dogs called of, horses whipped
up, and all the country matrons stood
III their doors with their arms akimbo
and with the most surprising attitude.
At o'clock A. Nj. we passed over
Patton. or some similarly named place.
AT $40 A. NJ, VIC passed Tomah, Wis.
At $50 \. NJ, we arose above the
clouds and lost sight of mother earth
for few hours. The wind increasing,
1t carried us at rapid rate, proba-
bly, four or five miles an hour,
and not being able to discern objects,
could not tell where we were or what
course We were pursuing; meanwhile
the rain poured in torrents, collecting
on the outside of the balloon, it poured
down the mouth of the bag into the has
ket III steady stream, compelling me
To put away my Instruments: hut il
was useless, there was not dry pin
head among them. At 12:45, the high
est known elevation was reached, being
$500 feet. From the last person we
found we were 40 miles from st. Paul.
and when we descended, at $50 T.. NJ,
on the west hanl, of the river, half II
mile inland. We concluded we were
i'll the state of Minnesota, probably
forty nils from ST. Paul, on the Missis-
sippi river. With this supposition ia
mind we stepped out of our car into
about eighteen inches of ice water and
found we We're i'll cranberry bog. Our
experience after that for the succeed
ing five days is too horrible. How we
walked for five days up to our
knees through boggy swamps, with
out food, except about hall a pint
of berries; how wolves and bears
snarled around us at night; how we
slept ON wet ground at night through
heavy frosts, only TO start again in the
morning through the swamp with its
ice water and falling over muddy logs
at every step, cannot be PIT i'll words.
As last resort we built n raft
expecting to go over the st. An
thony falls. OF our subsequent dis
appointment and our subsequent
tramps, viii tell later. But our
JOY when 4 O'Clock in the evening ON
the 9TH day we reached Flambeau
river and were carried across by Clera-
more Bartrand AMI Michael Miner
Woodward, and here we are enioyinp
the good things before us.
(Signed) ]. G. HAsHAdAS.