Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-10-06
m-MI up EEET FIRsT.
Thrilling Experience OF oohh
VINO was Lassoed by a bat
looms Tackle.

Tin of horror was felt by every
,,odv who had gathered to see paiioo"
~ascension at Centreville, Mich. recent
Ir The air-ship had been lnnateu;
- 90 II gently swaved in the VINO
"waitino for Prof. Bartholomew. me
@aoronant. 10 give the word to cut the
"onos the curious spectators lauSneu
and tested in careless manner
a thought of accident. ,,ov
Let her goI' shouted Barthole"e"i
as he seated himself in MS TAI an"
waved his hand to the crowd
The attendants released the oailoon,
,rd II started up like a bird escaping
srom a cage. As it Il left the GROUND a
"nv rome was snapped about as IL IL
,yere a whip lash, coiling itself around
tho leo of John SanbOrn, an
agad 60 In an instant he was In the
ar his head hanging downward. ana
H. ;es,ers became dumb. Up, up, up
he vent and all ~momentarily expected
10 soc the old man dashed TO death;
His arms were swinging wildly, ana
he seemed to be trying to catch inc
zone that held a parachute TO u oaL-
loon. Soon he succeeded, and a sign
of relief escaped the crowd;
..Cap he Keep his holdp" was h
question on the lips of his frightened
f.iands. The eyes of all were strained
n the air-ship which was sailing away
with IL hapless victim. He seemed TO
raaIize his awful position for every
move was made with extreme care
Then he began to climb mana over
hand and finally succeeded IN reachiaS
the parachute, where he was compare
lively safe.
Gradually the balloon grew smaller
to the anxious people, and II Is esa,
mated that it went up three thousand
feet before its flight was checked. Fin
alIy IL came down and Sanborn was
| unframed. but he was terribly fright
ened, When he realized thai The was
safe the reaction set in and he was
Frustrated.
Mr.. Sanborn saws of his trip: 81 was
! one of a number of men who were de-
tailed to hold the balloon after it was
inflated and cut loose ready to ascend.
The professor gave the word to let go
and / did so, at the same momentstep-
ming back TO clear the ropes. In a
~twinkIing my legs were caught In the
rome which was attached to the para
! chute and I was carried upward very
rani5N. | heard a voice from above
me saw, .Catc, this rope, climb up to
me-, and hang on With difficulty /
! succeed in gettins hold o. the rope
which was thrown to me.
The motion of the balloon caused
my body TO twist and turn in such q
manner that the rope was securely
wound about nv legs. This aided me
somewhat, and by n dexterous effort
by Bartholomew | was drawn towithin
about two feet of the horizontal bar on
which he was sitting. At this point
our sttsrsth began to fail us, and | felt
myself gradually sinking back TO my
original position. Bartholomew kept
urging me to hold on. The scen5 be-
low me was vivid. Men and women
looked to me like clothes-pins and
horses like mice.
'sThe parachute was fastened to the
balloon BIZ a slender cord which is ex-
! peeted to break by the weight of the
aeronaut's bodt when he jumps from
the balloon, and why i. held me is
a mystery. At last we realized that
the balloon was descending. and wifi
renewed courage / chung to my frail
support like "A drowning nan to .
straw. Down, down we anne. Each
nioiEen, sestp,sl like an age As we
Haeaf-eI.tll, HE sassit-- --r's4d -hesr lne
Shouts OF JOY of my friends until | was
surrounded and clasped in the arms OF
those l never expected to see again