The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1883-07-12
1G0, 0W marks toward the expenses of the
Martin Luther festival. to be held in August.
AT SEA IN 4 BALLOON.

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Martin Luther festive. to be held in August
AT SEA IN 4 BALLOONS.
Details of the Voyage Of M. L'Host.
Across the English Channel.
A correspondent of the London Tele
graph sends the following from Brussels
IN. DHoste, young man of engagin,
manners, l found to-day looking very
pale and fatigued from the peril to which
he had SO recently been exposed. He
is suffering most from giddiness, but
hopes that days rest will set him up
again. As soon as his health shall be
quite restored, he assured mis- With
much earnestness that he will make an
other attempt to cross the channel, and
expressed hii1,self confidant of ultimate
success. NJ. IHoste Said that after va
rlous preliminary trips last week, in
company with his friend M. Eloy, ho
determined to make the attempt to
reach England on Friday evening, hay
ing prediction for night trips. When
the time for Starting approsched, how
ever, his companion thotight the
Aooheu LOO tAreaLeu-
ing for aerial navigation, and
theoretically endeavored to dis
suade him from his purpose, but with
out success. Even Eloy's refusal to en-
courage bis rashness to accompany him
had no effect upon bis obstinate resolu-
ton to make the trip. Accordingly at
midnight on Friday the balloon Filastte
de Roster cast off and rapidly assembled.
almost Immediately the weather,
which had been hazy all the evening,
set III. very thick, the result being
that D. Hoste passed the night in the
midst Of a fog, which not only chilled
him to the marrow hut prevented him
from obtaining the least idea whether
he was drifting or even ii he were mov-
ing. at all. However, the weather
cleare on Saturday morning, when to
his no small disgust, he found himself
out at sea in the neighborLCod of Cape
Grisnez. He at once threw out ballast
in order, if possible to find favorable
current, and soon rose to a height of
5000 meters, at which altitude he SUI
fered severely, his face being half roast
ed BY the heat Of the sun,
while his feet we're hpmbbed and
almost frozen. Two hours later
he found himself over town Of some
sort, and drawing the value line, de-
scended rapidly, and, with the assist
ance of passers-by cast anchor ON the
esplanade at Dunkirk. Being deter
mined to persevere, he calmly took
gaping crowd; and afterward increased
lis store of ballast: Noticing favora-
bic change in the wind, he ungrappled
and rose gradually to height Of 5000
meters.
"He must have travelled quickly, for
he soon found himself over the sea, and
the coast of Belgium. Far up among
the clouds he found terrible differ
ence in the weather, for, almost with
out warming lie sailed into violent
storm wave. Here the beating of the
rain, the heavy gusts of wind and the
loud reverberations of the thunder put
the stability of the balloon to fearful
and unforeseen test. The whole fab ic
was convulsed with continuous vibra-
tons and tossed and pitched in man
ner which made it difficult for the giddy
and benumed seronaut to keep his
hold on the car. However, with some
he managed to open the valve
and descended at noon on Saturday to
within, as far as lie could calculate, 800
meters Of the sea. Unfortunately in
the lower strata, there prevailed thick
fog, which made it impossible for him to
ascertain his exact whereabouts. He
made another ascent III hopes of find
ing the elements more propitious, but
the storm was still raging up in the
clouds, and he therefore considered it
prudent to keep nearer the sea AS the
afternoon wore on he noticed with alarm
that the gas in his balloon was danger
ously decreasing, and he began to re-
alize his peril.
cat o'clock the ropes dangling from
the car touched the sea, and he knew
that the critical time had come. The
whole of his ballast: of which the car
could hold but comparatively little
supply, had by this time become COM
pletely exhausted. He at once threw
out, one after another, instruments,
cases and, indeed, every movable article
in the car. But the balloon re-
sponded languidly, and in a
very few minutes the car itself touched
water, and the sea broke furiously al
most every minute clean over the car,
drenching it's unhappy occupant to the
skin. The ropes and lines, too. were
dashed about in a bewildering manner,
and these combined horrors had almost
made M. T. Hoste despair, when
he caught sight of the sales of q fishing
lager, which turned out to be the Noe
mi. The captain of the Noemi almost
simultaneously caught sight of the ba-
loon, which he for sometime took to be
a shi p on fire and Unanswered round
and round accordingly. When, howev-
er, he ascertained what the strange
craft really was he at once launched
boat, and with immense difficulty res
cued the acronaut from fate which, but
for his timely appearance, would not
long have been delayed. L 'Hoste found
he had been rescued about ten miles
from the English coast. He and the
balloon which had burst, were taken
aboard the Noemi and landed at Ant
werp shortly after midnight. LHoste
is full Of gratitude to the captain of the
Noemi"