River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-07-25
THE MISSING AIR-sHIP.
s.rohs Evidence That the Big Campbell
Balloon Has Been Lost at Sea, and with
HI Prof Hogan, the Noted Michigan

strong Evidence That the Big Campbell
Balloon Has Been Lost at Sea, and with
Ii Prof Hogan, the Noted Michigan
Aeronaut
NEW YORK, July ia pilot reports hav-
ing on Tuesday afternoon sighted a balloon
dragging its car along the surface of the
ocean He gave chase, but it sank before he
could reach it The inference is that
II was the Campbell air-ship, in which the
aeronaut Hogan made an ascent Tuesday
morning, and which lost its steering ap-
paratus and was swept out to sea
Captain Phelan, OF the Caprice, the pilot
mentioned. says:
AT about O'Clock, one hour and a half after
VIC had FIST sighted the balloon, when we were
about 100 yards from il the balloon parted
from some heavy object in the water which IL
had becu bragg NJ along and flew up In 20 the air
When several hundred feet above the sur
face OF the sea it was caught in the north
northwest wind and went before il east
southeast az the rate OF about twenty-five
miles an hour. When we first sighted the
balloon and drew close enough 10 make her
out snc was egg-shaped and Juggling hard 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 as
Stunning all kinds OF shapes, initiating and coll
iapsng. At the last try il collapsed at the end,
and assuming the shane of pumpkin, arose
In the air There was nothing hanging TO the
ropes the balloon
III Prof Hogan was in the balloon when we
came up with her then he was drowned We
cruised over the spot in which the balloon and
its car parted. There were no signs OF life, no
evidence that human being had found his
death in the water. There we're no floating OBJ
lects, every thing was quiet and as calm as
mlll-Nond."
PROVIDENCE, r. l., July 19.-At about z
O'Clock Tuesday evening a big balloon
passed over this city heading in n direc-
Uion that would have brought it up over
Buzzard's bay or Vineyard sound in an
hour or two. A great many people here be-
heve that the balloon was the missing
Cambell air-ship, as no ascensions are
known to have been made hereabouts
Hogan was born at Ann Arbor thirty-four
years ago. He made his first trip in hot-air
balloon, when he was Ia, az circus. In jack
son he worked IN planingmill fourteen years
10 get money enough TO start. He was always
determined TO be an aeronaut and is totally de-
void OF fear and a sple did athlete. In 1881 he
made his first regular ascension In a pal
loon made by himself, paying tho
gas company 200 TO initiate IT, He was up two
hours, landing at Stockbridge, twenty-three
miles north OF jackson. During the next SIX
years he made many ascensions and was re-
narkably successful. He has had several &C
St"SNtS' boN Always CaIdpcuf bptHS COOA anu
fearless. At Greenvifle, Mich, four years ago
his hOt-air balloon burst when half a mile up,
but he climbed into the netting inverted il,
making a parachute. and descended safely.
There he conceived the parachute idea
which he has SO successfully worked dur
ing the last two years. II was Hogan who sent
Bartholomew around the world with the Chi
cago ball team. He has made several para
chute jumps this season, and in answer to
numerous requests by Prof. Campbell he went
20 New York two weeks ago 10 navigate the
air ship. He has wife, mother and three
brothers in Jackson, and they all profess faith
that Ed will come out all right from this
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