The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-09-19
.ANDREE'S BALLOON seen AGAIN,
BUT ONLY FOR FIVE MINUTES
IN ARCTIC RUSSIA.
This Information Is Pronounced Of
fcial-old Arctic Explorer Scouts
the idea and Fears Andree Has
Met His Death.

st. Petersburg, Sept. 1s.-The Official
Messenger confirms eoday the an
nou1cenent yesterday that on Sept Il
at II o. m. the inhabitants of the vii
lage of Antziirowskoie, in the district
OF Yenfseisl1, Arctic Russia, saw for
abous five minutes a balloon believed
to be that of Professor Andree. The
Messenger adds that it is supposed in
official circles that Ehe balloon rs that
Of the Arctic explorer mentioned.
New York. Sept. 1S.-A special to the
Herald from Washington says: Arctic
explorers and scientists here are much
interested in The report that balloon
supposed TO be that of AndTee. the ex-
Dlorer, has been seen over the VILLAGE
of Arl'tz.firoWshoje, in the province OF
Yenfseisk. Professor William Hardness
CT the naval observatory was asked as
90 the location of this village and the
significance OF the report, and said that
he had not been able to locate the vii
lage exactly On the maps at his COM
mand, but he found ON enc of the maps
a place marked AnizfferoVsk. which he
assumed was a different spelling Of
the name of the same vintage.
This place is in noIsll latitude about
81 degrees and is about 200 miles west
of north from KlrasTloirs6, the town
from which the telegram was sent an
IDouncing thai the balloon had been
seen. Professor Hardness said that as
AndTee had started in his balloon from
Danes island TO Che north cg SpiisZber-
gen, 1T was clear that il it was his bal
loon he did I.Ct succeed III crossing the
Polar region. Instead Of going north
from his point of departure, his general
direction eince he left Trcc1soe has been
toward the east and south.
Commodore George W. Melville. Unit
ed States army, the Arctic exDlcreT,
said: 1T is possible thar Andree's bal
loon may have been sesa and reported
from the Ysnisiesk dgstrie. OF Siberia,
but I am inclined to doubt If the ez-
ploger ever reached tlle vicinity or tihat
the news of his being there coutd be
communicated at this time to the OUT
side world. I am OF the opinion THAI
the balloon never went very far from
SDitzbargen. ard / have for sonle time
feared EGl3t Andree has already met mis-
death IN the Arc,.ic, though even if BE
came down ON the land in the far north
Sac chances are he never would be
heard from. The regioD whence the
news of the sighting Of the balloon
comes is little travelled from April to
October, and it would BE- difficult Cor the
news TO be carried to the nearest S2.e-
graph st3,.ion at this season, and the
ftsl>uNtS Nkest0 Il0l hINO0 ~ Hat tiIS E%l-
leon was if they saw it in the air..
Walter Welmnan. the newspaper cor
respondent VIM has made a spec.al i'm
vestigatioa OF the praG.icabtlity CT Are
tic bel&ccaine, dtscredits tfle SIBERIAN
s'scry, though ne 0oss net oQtrcide with
ttle prevailing orinfcn that Aqldree is
lest. In MS o<,ir51Gl Audreee's chances
CT safety are about ONE TO two.
Concerning cile latest tiifrlgs via, 81.
Petersburg, he said: There IS nothing
improbable in the stcry so far as the
geographical position cts the Siberian
village is concerned. and the distance
the balloon nlugs have Travelled to get
there. The distance which the baElooa
would ha.ye sTsNeie'1 fIaEn northwestern
Spitzenter5er 10 the SIBERIAN village,
assuming that It crossed Franz JoGeph
land. and chen out in the Arctic sea, is
sar13e thing 1itze 1900 miles. This he
n1isG,e have. 6Cae in much less time
tslael rtGra }ytzi;E. Url.H fq;3i her evidence
1a2laes Q 1ig,arl !aa Siberian story must
be dispehevsd, not ba5ause OF the Dis
ta7gae. but because pt the time witch
has elapsed. II would be miraculous if
A1p5cces taE-siee had retained the
power 70 Fcss in air 81 days. Ard An
dree himself did rGi- reckon upon his
atNa.ty 70 remain in the air more than
20 days; ana 20, ca, at the on side. 50
days. is t.le estimate OF ot1e-s familiar
with aeroaadtics.