The morning journal-courier., 1908-10-14
Pilots of the St. Louis Rescued by Lifeboat in North Sea, But Airship Is
 Lost.
SECOND DISASTER FOR US
Basket Buffeted by Waves for m Hour Before Final Resrue--- North Adams Man Tells
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Berlin, Oct. 1S-The second of the three American balloons that started in the race for the international tro- phy on Sunday from schmaregndorf has met disaster in the Moth sea. The Saint Louis" manned by N. II. Arm ola of North Adams, Mass, and IIar- ry J. Hewitt, was carried overland by treacherous air currents and lator In the haze the aeronauts lost their bearings, until suddenly last night they saw the guard lights of an un- known coast.
 This meant that they must descend or risk tho danger of being driven far out of the track of vessels. They chose tho former course and for an hour they were buffeted by the waves. almost giving up In despair Eventual ly they were rescued by life boat. and the first intimation that an acci- dent had occurred to the saint Louis" was conveyed fin wireless message from Arnold, saying, Lost everything in the North sea last night"
 phvNiAiS Hp sAN9tiN bil Al' uIdlildllF experience of A. Holland Forbes and Augustus Post, the navigators of the | "Conqueror' which burst at an altitude of 4,000 feet soon after the start of the race, the disaster to the Saint Louis 2 was the subject of great interest in Berlin throughout, the day and up 10 midnight, no details of the rescue hav- ing been learned up to that hour by the officials of the Aero club or the friends of the men whose whereabouts had not been ascertained.
 1 Tho Associated Press. however, was able to communicate with MT. Arnold at Wilhelmshaven, to which place he had been transported by one of the tor redo boats, which last evening was sent out to render assistance to any of the balloonists who might drift out over the water. Mir. Arnold told q graphic story of the descent and res cue by life boat. He said:
 All day Monday, with the exception of the early afternoon, we were unable to sec the earth and we lowered the balloon repeatedly to communicate with the people to ascertain our where abouts. Apparently we could not make them understand but thls probably wes due to our poor German Finally we decided to risk proceeding, still having 20 sacks of ballast.
 Moving in northwesterly dicertior in tho evening we passed a city the lights of which were visible Ave miles to the west and we learned later that 1t was Bremerhaven. Soon afterwards we noticed lighthouses and buoy which convinced HIS that we were nov Ing above big water but we had nc idea where we were.
 Tn order to avoid drifting out of tn, line of ship traffic, VIC concluded tC go down to the water but before doing So we put on life preservers. This was perilous task, for 1t was dark and there was great danger of being swamped fl the basket,
 ''Aftor pitching about in the water for almost an hour and giving up al hope of rescue, Hewitt who had climb cd Into the rigging discovered flash light, and soon after saw a life boa approaching us, The boat, however could not reach us as we were heing Dragged through the waves at the rat, of about IS or 20 miles an hour Th' . hoatmen shouted to us to jump over l board, which we did,
 "I tried to save the St. Louis club! balloon by ripping it up, but the TOD,
 was jerked out of my hands. Ahou ten minutes later I was picked up b! the boat, which in the meantime, hac , saved my companion Hewitt. We wer landed here, too tired to proceed {, Berlin, whither we will go tomorrow. Captain J. c. Mccoy, the commando ] of the American balloon America l which landed today, reached Berlln to night.