The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-07-20
LOST IN THE OCEAN.
AerOnaut Hogan VIII Make No
More Aerial Flights.
GOV. LoWRY'S STEEPLECHASE.
He Clears the Boundaries of Many states, bat
Fails to Catch the FOx-Norris'
Keen Semitic, Etc.
Especial to THE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Dispatch

Especial 70 THE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Dispatch.I
New YORK, July 19.-There is little doubt
now that Aeronaut Hogan is lost at sea.
The first news since the balloon lifted out
Of sight Tuesday night was brought in
Yesterday by Pilot John Phelan of the pilot
boat Caprice, which Tuesday was cruising
$50 miles OF Sandy Hook. Towards sun
down what appeared to be a square rugged
ship was spied below the horizon from
aloft; as near as the pilots could judge, it
was about fifteen miles away, BY 6
O'Clock, an hour later, the supposed ship
was visible from the vessels deck. The
Caprice was already in pursuit when the
pilot. picking up his glasses to get another
look ut the craft, exclaimed that it was no
ship at all, but a balloon bobbing in the
wind.
'sWhen we first sighted her," said Pilot
Phelan yesterday, cit was about o'clock
Thursday afternoon, seventy-four miles
south by east from Montank point. We
were running at the time before stiff
twenty-five miles north by northwest
breeze. The lookout aloft sighted two
schoouers, and what we at first took for a
square rugged ship We were under full
sail ana put out q square rigger, running on
au average about eight Knots. We had
been laying towards her nearly an hour
and half before we made out that the OBJ
iect was fair-5ized balloon. l should say
it measured fifty-fiTe or sixty feet in di-
ameter, and was the color of oil silk.
1.-THE sun was dropping down in the sky
and the horizon was flooded with light
The big concern was swinging on the edge
of the horizon and in the glow looked like a
big golden bail. 1t was carried along by
the wind in a southeast by east course but
seemed held down IN the water ike boat
dragging anchor. ! naturally concluded
that the car was the object keeping her
down and as it was getting dark and fear
ing someone might be in danger whom we
codld save, we did our best to reach her
before she separated. We managed to get
within three-quarters of a mile of her when
suddenly the bag shot up in the air like u
bird and was of. 1t must have been about
z: 40 when it broke loose While we had
beeu sighting it all along it had something
the appearance of boys spinning top bat
when it sprang into the air it looked for all
the world like huge pumpkin.
1T row began to get dark rapidly and
hoping that we might be able to overhaul
tue car, we crowded on sail and tiOated
along at full speed, but could ind no trace
Of the car itself.
IL don't know anything about the CON
stluctiOu Of the gig so | can't say whether
j. got filed with water and rapidly sank,
or whether it fioated away. Darkness set
i'll almost Immediately and we saw nothing
more"
"When the balloon was first sightedn
Captain Phelan went on, lit was held to
the car by five or six ropes. There was
not heavy sea at the time, but swash
enough Of course to wear them away. The
sky was clear enough though there was
pretty thick haze about. ! saw no signs
whatever that the inmate of the car had met
his death in the water, though we secured
the locality pretty thoroughly If Hogan
was in the car at the time it was sighted
from the pilot boat, he was drowned with
out Goubt,n
is it possible" asked the reporter, "that
one of the two schooners you saw at the
saE2e time may have picked up the aero
nautF'
.'The schooner bound east-southeast
possibly may have given assistance re
piled skipper, but the other could not
have done sou
Campbell, inventor of the aerostat, was
found in an easy chair at his office in
Brooklyn He was evidently worried over
the uncertainty of the fate attending Ho-
gan. y have received no news concerning
the whereabouts of the professor he said,
other than the dispatch reporting what
Pilot Pkelan claims to have seen. But that
might have been some other balloon.
have yet strong hopes that he is safe. He
may have been picked up by a passing
vessel outward bound and carried to sea.
l have received q telegram from Mrs. Ho-
gan asking for tidings of her husband, to
which l replied, No reliable information
received "
Hogan was born in Canada and was forty
six years of age. He went to live in Michi-
gan when q boy, and his wife at present
makes her home in that state. He began
the profession of aerial navigation when
only eighteen years old, and has followed
it ever since. His record comprises over
four hundred balloon ascensions, thirty
two parachute jumps of varying wonder
and danger, which makes him worthy
brother of Wise and Donaldson. Last year
nc exhibited for u week with parachute
at Far Rockaway beach, and to-day was to
have made jump at Ottawa, Canada. He
was medium sized, weighing 10 pounds,
and possessed acknowledgements and pluck.
He never drank and always kept his en-
gagements, his managers say.
His friends still cling to the hope that he
may have been saved by hook or crook, but
the chances are vastly against the aeronaut
whose courage had never deserted him in
twenty eight years of his hazardous calling.