Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-07-19
HOGAN Is LOST.
AerOnaut and Air Ship Sunk In Il
AtIantI,

Aeronaut and Air Ship Sunk In the
Atlantic.
NRw YORK, July 18.-There seems to
be no longer any reason to doubt that
Hogan, the aeronaut, is dead and Camp
BELLS air ship is Lost. Pilot Phelan was
seen at the offices Of the pilot commission
ers this afternoon. He slid: At $50
o'clock on the afternoon of Tuesday last,
when we we're about $50 miles southwest
of Sandy Hook, running before stiff %
mile northwest breeze the lookout aloft
sighted two schooners and a peculiar look
ing object lying near them on the surface
Of the ocean. One of the two schoontrs
was to leeward of the object, which the
lookout took TO be square rigger, and
was bearing northwsrd. The second
schooner was bearing east southeast. We
made mp TO the object and at about half
after six made her out to be balloon
about fifty to sixty feet in diameter. She
was in longitude II 80, latitude 80 SO.
''As it was getting dark, and we knew
that probably that some one was in dan
ger in the balloon, we crowded On extra
sail and fairly
FLEW OVER THE WATER
toward it. At about seven, one hour and
half after we had first sighted the bal
loon, when we were about 100 yards from
it, the balloon parted from some heavy OBJ
ct in the water which ii had been drag
ging along and flew up in the air. When
several hundred feet above the surface of
the sea it wel caught in the north.north-
west wind, and went before it east-south-
east at about twenty five miles an hour.
when we first sighted the balloon and
drew close enough to make her out, she
was egg shape and tugging very hsrd at
what must have been the Car. About five
ropes held her TO the car which was buried
several feet under water. The balloon was
assuming all kinds of shapes in flattening
aud collspsing, At the last try it cOllaps'
ed at the end and assuming the shape of a
pumpkin arose in the air. There was
nothing hnnging to the ropes of the bal
loon. If Prof. Hogan was in the balloon
when we came up with her,
THEN HE WAS DROWNED.
Assistance could not naV9 been rendered
to him by the schooner l spoke of as being
to leeward and bound northward.
'It is not at all improbable the schooner
bound east southeast may have something
to say when she arrives at her destination.
We cruised over the spot in which the
balloon aud its car parted. There were no
signs of life, no evidence that human be-
ing had found his death in the water.
There were no floating objects. Every
thipg was as quiet and as calm as mill
pond At the time heavy haze prevail
ed, Though the sky was cleer.
HOGAN's CAREER.
Hogan was 46 years old, and made over
400 successful balloon Gscensions and 81
parachute jumps in the % years he has
followed the dangerous business. He was
recorded as the foremost ;eronaut in the
world. Some of his friends are still hop
ing that he may be alive, even if injured,
and landed in some out-of-the-way place.
He had contract to appear in Ottawa,
Canada, tomorrow, to make jump, and
they regarded his absence as sure sign
that some serious mishsp has bstallen him,
or otherwise they say he would surely sp-
peer to perform his contract, if be had to
crawl on his hands and knees to do 80.