Arizona republican., 1904-11-03
IA LOST AIRSHlP
California Arrow Wander
 ing About in the Sky
II BROKE FROM CUSTODY
The Long Distance Flight Announced for Yesterday Prevented by Two Earlier Accidents The Escape De- cured Daring Journey Home.

St. Louis. Nov. 2.-Iwo accidents today prevented the long distance l trial flight arranged by Captain ! Thomas D. Baldwin, of San Francisco. l to test the staying powers of his air | ship. the California Arrow, and which was to have been speed demonstra- ton around a prescribed quadrangle. ! The Arrow landed in a corlfield. four miles west of the aerouautic cOncourss after a drifting math The motoc had become incapacitated.
 The first accident resulted in the Arrow being brought to the ground at about a mile and a half northwest Of the concouI SC. The airship was coni- manded by A. Roy Knabenyhue of Toledo. hero of the successful flights on Monday and yesterday. Captain Baldwin had arranged to follow the airship in an automobile, and when the accident occurred and the motO- stopped. he gave instructions to follow the drifting aerial craft.
 Just before passing through ths Worlds Fair gates. a Jefferson guard ran 10 the automobile and handed [ Captain Baldwin a metal cap, which he said had fallen just after it was notic- ed that the airship was in trouble The captain explained the nature of | and stated that the damage could be l repaired without bringing the airslIip ] back to the aerodroue, provided Kna- : benshue could land without losing toe much gas. and the trip be resumed af- Ger the Arrow returned to the con course, under its own power.
 When Captain Baldwin reached t,,e ! Arrow repairs were smmediate'y ata-ted and in less than an hour the l Arrow was agaIn in the air, making ! iheadvay against the breeze that had blown it out of its course. and it look ed as tho-Eh the long distance test
 would be made
 1 Just before the Arrow arrived in 1 position over the cOncourse fence the, motor wfs again seen to hesitate 1 T'area or four weiveTirz- revolutions
 followed. and then the silver colored blades hung moti0niess, while the air
 ship WAS again grasped by the breeze and hurried back over the distance it had won ln its duel with the wind. ! Knabenshue. undaunted by gE1e second l breakdown, hung far out over the side
 of the aeI5ag vessel and waved his cap
 towards the hundreds of persons l thrOnSiug the aeronautic concourse.
 Higher and higher noatcd the air
 ship the breeze which was blowing
 at the rate of about five miles an hour from tEe southwest, eagerly taking hold of the helpless craft and waiting 1t away from the sight of those an xi0usly following its course 1900 or 2,O00 feet below.
 The atmosphere had been hay all afternoon and 1t did not take long be- fore the Arrow was a tiny cigar speck almost obscCred from view. AS long
 as 1t could be seen, however. the crowd watched it's every movement. and several hundred persons remained fs,t the cOncOurse until the word had been received from Knabensnue that he had alighted safely and that neither he nor the Arrow had been in- jured beyond the minor accident to the machinery of the latter
 As the vessel was near the con course. Captain Baldwin decided that it would entail too great loss Of
 time to deflate the bag and carry the Arrow back to the Worlds Fair Vol
 unteers were numerous and Baidwin,s plan of carrying the Arrow back to the cOncOuTSe by hand was agreed to.
 and With every class of bearers the march was started
 Kua5enshue said tonight that he had remained in the air, although
 drifting, as long as he could see the lautomobile following far behind. ''Ths only trouble" he said, was that the exhaust cap blew off. I lost the cap
 twice and each time the motor stopped
 dead and I was at the mercy of the
 wind which, fortunately, was not very
 brisk"