The Florence daily tribune., 1902-09-02
BIC GLORY
CAME DOWN
And Teams are Hauling the
Balloon to Florence.
Messrs. Baldwin, Hudson and Sher-
man Had a Thrilling Exper-
ience---And So Had Dode
Foster Who was Asleep.

Big Glory didn't break the record,
bat it very nearly broke three men S
necks.
The big balloon started up in a
blaze of glory from Elichs gardens
Sunday evening, and this evening it
is making an inglorious return from
Florence in box car.
Artist Sherman of the Post started
for Denver last night at ? O'Clock
and Messrs Hudson and Baldwin will
go tonight.
1t was a case of the lost finding the
lost
Sunday morning Dode Foster.
George johnson, Jim Miller and Ed
Ash went up into the Red Greek
country toward Pixies Peak. to hunt
deer. During the afternoon. while
i'll the vicinity of one of Gunner :
ranches, Foster became separated from
his companions and was unable TO find
camp Night came on and he finally
gave up the search After dark a
terricf electrical storm set in and the
wind blew violently. Foster sought
the shelter of the pines, built big
fire, roasted rabbit which he had
shot and then sat down by the fire and
dozed, He had no blankets, and it
was too cold for him to lie down
At 44;5 yesterday morning Foster
was suddenly awakened by rushing
sound through the timber, tree fell
near him aud the next moment three
men appeared before him. having
leaped from somewhere like frogs
Mr. Foster says he was never so
frihtgened in his life He grabbed
his rifles and pulled down on his Wis
itors, but he at once discovered that
hey were not highwaymen, The first
word spoken was by Artist sherman
aud his appeal was touching 1t was,
For God 5 sake, partner, give me a
cigarette. Foster produced the
"makings and they were friends
The story which these aeronauts
told Foster is not calculated to stinu-
late in the hearts of young America "A
desire for aerial navigation. They left
Denver at j 80 Sunday evening, and
passed over FIT. Logan where they are
under the impression that soldier
| took shot Mt them They next
found Themselves over Colorado
Springs the electric lights of which
made fine sight. They then went
over Pixies Peak, over Cripple CreeA
and Victor and then back to Pueblo
which they knew by the fires from tie
furnaces And then again they sailct
over Colorado Springs and again ovei
Pixies Peak And their second ex
perienco with the Peak will be ou'
long to be remembered. They hat
broken their guide line, aud they de
cided TO land They accordingly cas-
anchor, but the velocity of the balloon
nearly caused them to be hurled dow
an awful precipicc when the mcho
temporarily canght upon crag
They found that wouldn't do so the,
hauled in the anchor
Then it was that the balloon rusher
through canons, bounding aud re-
bounding from side to side. The
We're sailing too low They hastil.
lashed themselves to the basket, thei
threw out thousand pounds of sand
Up shot the big air ship until it Mt
tained an altitude of %, 600 feet
Chen they became frightened Til
thermometer showed away below zero
There was little oxygen. They wer
freezing. There was only one thin
to do and that was to let ont the gas
But the balloon was covered with ice
aud the valve refused to work. Grea
icicles hung all around Hudso
climbed rope which was a glare G