The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-06-08
AER0NAUTS HAVE
NARROW ESCAPE
Kentucky Cranks Shoot at Bal
looms Passing Over
Country.
ST. LOUIS iii SAILING
TOWARD GULF OF MEXICO
Indianapolis Balloon Wins Cup
for Going Greatest
Distance.

INDIANAPOLIS. June All but
one of the balloons that started in tho
Aero Club of America S great national
race Saturday have been heard from.
Two of the balloons were shot at but
no one was hit.
The st. Louis III. is supposed to he
sailing toward the Gulf of Mexico. The
New York, with A. Holland rs pilot,
came down at Coriuth, Miss at $40 a.
M today.
The Hcosier, Capt T. s. Baldwin,
pilot, landed at Greenhrier, Tenn No
details regarding the landing of either
had been received.
The Indiana. Carl Fisher of Indian
apolis. pilot. and G.. A. Bumbsugh, as
sistant, had come near enough to ground
at Schackle Island. Tenn, last night, to
get fresh supply of water. They had
then mounted again 10 the higher cur
rents TO continue the race. Schackle
is twelve miles north of Nashville.
The Cleveland. A. H Morgan, pilot,
and the University City, J. s. Berry
of st. Louis, pilot, have dropped from
the race.
DR.. Goethe Link. pilot, and R. !. Ir-
N'H- dSSISIHHt, IQS
won both the trophies in tho great
handicap race, which started nj 3:45
Saturday afternoon, just preceding the
national race.
The Indianapolis won the cup offered
for the greatest distance by the In
dianapolis Merchants association, hav-
ing approximately sixteen miles better
than the Ohio. She also won the Fisher
trophy for time in the air, having
of q fyrn ha
Chicago.
indianapolis Victory.
The victory of the indianapolis men
and their 10000 cubic feet capacity
balloon is considered remarkable, mas
They started on their flight with but
FIVE bags of sand, or Approximately $50
pounds of ballast. and We're lightly pro,
visioned. They made 235 miles and
were in the air nineteen hours.
message to the Associated Press
from them SAYS their highest altitude
was 10000 feet, approximately two and
one-half miles. They were shot at twice
rs they went over Kentucky, but were
not hit.
The New York. which landed near
Corinth. Miss, was also shot at Sunday
night while passing over Morgan coun-
", Ala.
Describing the shooting, Mr.. Harmon
says:
.'Expecting to land in the wilds of
Canada. we were loaded with provisions,
ammunition, heavy shoes and clothing,
and canned goods In an endeavor to
find another air current TO carry us
higher, we decided to throw away about
300 pounds of this stuff. Not wishing
that it should be lost, we descended 70
within 900 feet of the earth and began
distributing it where it would be found
near houses and villages.
'When directly over a very small
village. eighty miles north Of Birming-
ham man with rifle cried
80 Come down here, - - you, or
] will bring you down
HWe continued our course and he
fred three times, one Of the bullets
singing through the basket. Officers
have been sent out from Corinth In an
endeavor 10 arrest the man.
Looks Like Record.
IL The balloon Indiana has not been
disqualified by touching earth. II has
broken the American endurance record by
staying In the air more than fortyfour
hours Since the balloon started In the
national distance race of the Aero Club
of America from this city Saturday. two
reports have been received from II. One
was that II had touched the earth In
tennessee and had taken on water and
proceeded toward the south. II this be
true the balloon Is disqualified under the
rules OF the International Aeronautlc fed
lion.