The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-14
TWO AERONAUTS
 FALL ID DEATH Crushed Beneath Ruins of an
 880 Pound Car ONE OF THE ROPES BROKE Another Soon Gave Way and the Two Men Were Sent Flying Towards
 the Ground--The Bodice Were Not Disfigured.
ONE OF THE ROPES BROKE

Paris, October Recount de Bradsky, the aeronaut and companion, were killed today by falling from dirigibe | balloon.
 A number of aeronaut friends of de Bradsl1y and the latter's wife were pres ent at the start His wife, though anxious that her husband should demonstrate the success of his invention, witnessed his departure with considerable emotion. De Bradsky first tried the ascensionaI screw situated below the car and the air. ship. held by ropes, rose slowly and easily and maintained it's equilibrium A whistle was blown releasing the ropes, and the propelling screw behind was set in the proper direction, when suddenly a south west wind sprang up and the airship swerved to the northwest instead of to the northeast. Crossing the main boulevards the aerial craft executed a number of ev- olutions, but continued northward with the wind, eventually disappearing over the great white basillica of the Church of the Sacred Heart and the top of the hill of Mount Martre.
 When two hours later the balloon was perceived at an immense height the anxiety of the watchers was much in- creased, as it was known the airship was never intended to rise to such point. It was however, merely the inflated en- velope which drifted back across Paris, after the accident had relieved it of the weight of the car. A few minutes later d telegram arrived with the news of the disaster.
 Eye Witness Describes 1t.
 f,aI count of the accident:
 T was standing on the steps of the building when I heard a voice calling. l looked up and saw an air ship a hun dred yards in the air. M. Morin was leaning out of the car and asked through a megaphone where was a suitable spot to descend. I indicated a place in the neighborhood and the air ship proceeded in the direction I had indicated. few seconds later I saw the balloon turn sharply and at the same moment heard noise like the tearing of cloth. The piano wires attaching the front of the car to the balloon had broken. Other wires followed suit, the car became de- tached and it fell to the ground two hum dred yards distant The balloon itself bounded up in the air and disappeared. I hurried to the spot and found DeBradsky dead and terribly bruised. M. Morin was
  lived but a few moments"
 DeBradslxy was a Hungarian baron, 36 years of age, rich and clever, and had been In the diplomatic service. He made his first ascension in 1901 Morin was his engineer. He leaves widow and three children.
 La Chambre, the constructor of the air ship, says he had no confidence in the mechanical part of the air ship, but says the balloon had perfect stability and constituted real progress, inasmuch as there was not pitching or sudden shocks The defects were that the car was too light and that the motor end guiding screws were too weak.
 Wire Rope Broke.
 The accident occurred about 9:30 o'clock When the balloon was about St. Aims, near St. Denis the ropes attaching the car to the balloon broke from some unknown cause and the car, with it's oc cupants, DeBradsky and Morin, were dashed to the ground. and the aeranouts met Instantaneous death. The balloon itself disappeared in the clouds
 When the balloon arrived over St. Aims. the aeronauts called to some work men in the fields, asking the direction of Pantin DeBradsky and Morin were seen moving about the car. Suddenly one of the wire ropes broke and then another gave way and the car, weighing sso pounds, crashed to the ground. burying the aeronauts beneath 1t. They were crushed, their legs were broken and .heir faces were bloody, but they were