The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-07-03
DANGERS OF BALLOONING.
MANY ABSURD PROJECTS THAT HAD
FATAL RESULTS.

Fatal RESULTS.
| Tho FeelinE~ OF Aeronauts At Dizzy Heights
Ono Would Not Raise n FIsger TO Pre-
vent Death-,A Remarkable Escape.
Sadler. n celebrated English aeronant. who had
| made great many voyages. and on one OF hts
| expeditions crossod tho Irish Channel. between
Holyhcad and Dublin. distance OF thirty
one miles. persisted in very sad manner near
| Bolton. England. the 10Th OF September. 1924.
Deprived Of ballast. in consequence OF having
| remained too long In tho air. and forced
to descend over high buildings very 1ats
| at night. he was driven against a chimney by
| violent wind. and hurled from the car to the
| GARTH Sailors prudence and knowledge can
not BIO questioned: he Ind mado ncarly sixty
| ascensions Unfortunate circumstances. diff
| ncult to forcsee. woro tho cause Of his death.
| 1t was n workable aerial shipwreck.
| Cooking had made two ascensions in Green's
balloon as an amateur. Ho desired to try
something new. and especially descent in a
parachute OF his own invention. for which he
claimed many improvements. His project was
| moro than absurd. Instead Of using para
| chute with q concave surface resting upon o
| column OF air and driving itback. he suspend
| ed himself from an Inverted cone. sort Of
aerial screw or auger. which. In place Of re-
tardinR the descent Of a heavy body. must
hastcn Its fall and that is precisely what hap
pened. and unfortunately Greon participated
in tho experiment. Ata public ascension made
| at London Sept. ~. 1890. he suspended below
his car tho apparatus to which Cooking hung
by wire: thon. at height OF moro than 1000
feet. the aeronnut separated himself from his
companion. In loss than minute the unfor-
| tunato man fell to the earth and was dashed
| to pieces.
Tho register Of death from ballooninC tells
OF tho aeronaut Comaschi. who. in 1S45 as
| cerded from Constantinople before tho gaze
OF cheering crowd and disappeared forever.
In tho same way Ledet left st. Petersburg in
| balloon In lS47 md was never seen again. On
the 9Th OF September. 1850. Gale rose from
Bordeaux with q horse for ballast and de-
| seconded at Ccstas at o'clock in tho evening.
Tho horse was removed by peasants and the
balloon rose with incredible rapidity. The
aeronaut was found in Gascony the next morn
year Arban made his last ascension In Spain.
fell among the SHOWS OF the Pyrenees or into into
the e., sec Gan and was I nGveT seen again;
seconded on the island of scotland. and. starting
Iere mado an at
assistant. hunchback. received no injury.
Ayros May iss The aeronau t.. Bar nehNs
rose from the centre OF the city. lowered over
of boats and small steam boat hastened to
save, him from drowning. The steamboats,
Sion destroyed the balloon and tho fa1 ste a
1t5; dS,Sht were Killed and twenty-five
At the time Of the m emorable siege Of Paris.
from September. 1870, to February. 1871. the
iortunate plan Of having the balloons start at
II clock In the evening to avoid the enemies
SSe at oeSeE IN the moln
iHig While by starting IN the middle Of the
lives Of two Geronauts. and might easily have
caused the loss of many more. On the 3Oth OF
c me an aerial station: there was no moon
was driven westward rapidly. and at t dawn
fishermen saw 1t disappear. swal flowed by the
SS
and it al. also -, reached the ocean at sunrise. II
acronnut strict orders to remain in tho air
passenger. When they had reached the ocenn
and the balloon vas passing oyer Belle Isle
opened the valve. II another moment had
elapsed. the second balloon would have shared
On Jan. -. ISL. ut the tlme Of the armstice.
the last but one Of tho balloons used during
the siege let the Station du Nord commanded
hy z sailor; Lacaze. and was lost In the sea of
i seems miraculous. that the balloon which
lost in the sea It started at ii O'clock In the the
evening. and in fifteen hours was driven by q
R 1Rs Moth bs Sen ana
and his companion believed themselves abso:
lutely lost during long hours q agony. and
tour Of tho Norwecan coast. AS they passed
east from the ear and they We're saved. 81 the the
6 post nsf IS sent out during the
Wc %sfs Gaa ase and Tour others
On July /. 1873. another aerial shipwreck
Ca sdaS %Hs III veal hg
worry nearly been drowned in Lake Erie, con.
ccived tho fatal Idea Of suspendlng his car. not
series OF independent ropes fastened to circle
OF wood placed above Montgolfler; Tho
car did not remain in Vertical POSITION : the the
cords dslip5ed; ittle by little md uniting on
1He the @sn
convusiye!y to it. retained sufficient presence
of MUD to attompt 70 turn himself head down
lost his hold. and his body Was driven six TX
On Juiy!,. 1874. at Cremorno Gardens. Eng.
anf Tie Rnos wne p6.r tot1rr had met hs
had Invented. dropped from balloon ana was as
killed as he struck the pavement Some time
beloro that hHd met MN Mt Brussels and had
assured him that wings wero undou btedly less
reliable than large umbrella. Ho replied
that no would certainly succeed. despite the
best scientific reasoning.
In 1874 there wcro fctes Mt Bangkok in cole
bration OF tho majority OF the, King Of Siam.
was over received from him.
On April -. 1870 Crocc-Spineln and Sivel
wore Killed In the chtnstrophe OF the Zenith.
jestically from tho. Ems, factory OF La Vilette,
carrying with it tho threo aeronauts. Croco-
AItn SAY La
/: 30 tho balloon hnd reached u height Of 5000
yards. but its passengers had tainted in the
overcome by n feeling Of t?rpor.. previously
felt at II much greater height by N. Gsishar
experience being convinced that the inhaja-
ton Of OXYGEN would BIO sufficient to prevent
tho unpleasant ieo!inGs observed In former
tho, pulse very soon, auickens and grad
ua!ly and inscnslbly Gody, and mind
ont. and before losing consciousness would