The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-10-04
Airship Man Caught IN Gale
a Mile from Earth.
IS BLOWN. sIOsHIS HOME
Fuhr Shows He Can lTrav el
Some If Necessary.
Aeronaut Who Falls to Make Goo d
In Marion Makes Amends In
Licking County.

That Captain Frank Fuhr, the Gosh
ccton man, who brought his airship
to the Marion county fair last week
and failed to fly, can soar some
when the occasion demands, was
proven at Newark, Thursday. Fuhr
started on trip through the ozone,
was caught in a gale and tossed
wildly about, a mile above terra
firma.
The wind made 1t impossible or
Fuhr to steer his machine, and he
was carried from Newark to point
ten miles from Coshocton, his home
town, a distance of about so miles.
|Filylowing is what the Cleveland
Plain Dealer had this morning re-
|garding the incident:
Coshocton, o., Oct. 3.-Frank Fuhr
made forty-mile flight in the Gosh
|octon airship this evening, and is be-
lieved thereby to have broken all rec
lords for travel by any dirigible air
craft. Certainly 1t is new Amer
lean record.
Fuhr went up from the fair grounds
in Newark about o'clock, and in
la little more than two hours he came
down eight miles north of this city,
where the lights of his craft descend
ing from the clouds, gave several
farmers scare. BY the time they
had recovered themselves and gone
to look at him, he had deflated his
balloon.
1s your supper over?" he said
l"1'm hungry"
The Coshocton is a big dirigible
balloon. When 1t was liberated In
Newark, 1t went straight up through
Jan atmosphere heavy with promise
of rain. Fuhr was 10th to let out
any gas, as he wished to make the
best showing possible.
Just as he had started his engine
to show the people how he could han
die the airship the big gas bag took
a violent lurch. Fuhr was far above
the earth then, nearly mile, and he
took a sudden hold of the rigging al
the little car swayed with the shock
Then the wind began to whistle
about his ears, and sing among the
ropes, and he knew he had risen in.
to a current of air that was travel.
ling like hurricane. But his engine
had started. and he laid his. hands or
the steering gear to keep the Graf
straight In her wild course.
/ IU hA LuI
nearly as fast as the wind, for thu
dig bag presented large sail area
IThen he kept his engine going merel,
to give him steerageway above tn,
clouds.
He was literally above the cloud,
lpy this time and had lost all sigh
Iof the earth. He could see that 4
was raining heavily below him, bu
where he was there was nothing bu
the fierce wind and cold. There wa,
no landmark to tell him whittier h,
was going. but he had an idea tbat
ne was headed in the general direc
ton of Coshocton.
hundreds OF people who had sci
out to follow him from Newark 90
ing by automobile, bicycle and horse
continued the chase even after the,
could see no more of him Tho'
were IN FEAR that some misfortun,
would befall him. and anxiously the,
SCANNED the clouds above which h,
mad disappeared, "'
nut tne flight above the rainstorn
continued. Fuhr was at Io,s =,
KNOW what to do. He wanted -
,s, ,snd, out ne had to choose GOOD
pace TO 40 1t. else his machine wouIG
pe smashed. Meantime he was Lon,
ousy hoi3ing his fragile craft ~
her mad course. '' vi
IL grew dark, even wbere th, ,.
snip was, and then her skinran,,
prooiem was more difficult. II wos
ias. aiter seven o'clock that com.
o'nation of circumstances solved :,
.or him' or, as he says, he m,gh,
be going yet. "' hish'
i His gasoline ran out for bo ma,
not stocked for a long sail, and a,
Tue same time he dropped out q,
the poisterous air current. He came
downward into a calm and began "a
release the gas little by little.
AS ne merged from the enyelon.
ing clouds into which he had fallen
ne saw through the driving rain
that he was directly over a wood
80 he sat still laand waited until the
wind carried him clear of H. and
once over an open field started a
amid dro,, ,,n,.L -