The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1909-06-08
HARMON AND FORBES SHOTAT
BULLETS SING PAST N. Y. AERO
NAUTS AND TEAR RIGGING.

Indiana Wins Big Race, With New Workers
Second. tho Former Not Having
Been Reported since Sunday Might
May he . New Worlds Record.
CoRrNTH, Miss.. June t. According
to Clifford B. Harmon. who with Pilot
A. Holland Forbes landed near here to-
day with the balloon New York, from
indianapolis. the Southern country Is u
dangerous community for aerial naviga-
tors.
The New York was in she air from
P. NJ. Saturday to $40 this morning.
Harmon Isl indignant at the action Of an
unknown man who fred three times with
a rife. n shot tearing through the rig =
ging OF the balloon.
We were abovt eighty miles north Of
Birmingham, Ala, in Morgan county
said Harmon. we wanted to throw out
800 pounds Of ballast, but not caring to
lose It entirely we decided TO drop it in
the vicinity Of f~armhousee 30 We could
recover it.
when directly over a small village
a man with a rife called out: Come down
here. darn you, or III bring you down.
We were about nine hundred feet in the
air and he cracked away at us, n Of the
bullets singing near u heads. We
have put officers Of the job OF finding the
man and expect tho Aero Club to assist
as they did in Massachusetts, several years
ago.
Harmon and Forbes left to-day for
New York.
INDIANAPOLIS, June Carl @. Fisher
and Capt. Bumbaugh probably will be
declared winners Of the national balloon
race started here Saturday afternoon.
Fisher is an amateur aeronaut and his
balloon, the Indiana, vas manufactured
by Bumbaueh. 1t has a capacity Of
$4,000 feet Of gas and left hers carrying
fifty bags Of sand, the heaviest ballast
Of any OF the starters.
The New York. piloted by Holland
Forbes and Clifford Harmon. which was
expected Il win, landed this morning
at Corinth. Wis, having been in tho air
80 hours and 10 minutes and oovered
SIS miles.
The Hoosier. piloted by Capt. Baldwin.
landed at Greenbricr, Tenn, this morning.
The City OF st. Louis landed at Blanche.
Tenn. leaving the race to the Indiana
and the st. Louis III. piloted by Albert
Bond Lambert and DR.. Honeywell.
Late this afternoon word was received
here that the St. Louis had landed at
Kelso. Tenn. having covered $40 miles.
being second : Forbes and Holland in
distance but having been in the air
longer.
Fisher and BumbauGh are believed 70
have established n nov worlds record
for time in the air II not for distance
covered. Their location was unknown
early this evening.
Late this afternoon a message dated
HES yesterday morning was forwarded
to Indianapolis from Bowling Green,
Ky, where 1t had been picked up and de.
layed in transit. 1t was signed Fisher
and ~Bumbaugh,' and reads: we were
compelled to give up the northwest cur
rent after sixty miles. Are now two
miles up. riding south or southeast. A
twenty mile breeze and no other con-
testants in sight. Last pigeon refuses
to leave the basket on account OF altitude,
We are over a rough country and our
maps do not help us very much. Tenn
perature must be ITO in the basket
This despatch. however. does not AID
much information concerning the where
abouts of the Indiana. At 0 O'Clock last
evening she dipped low twelve miles
north Of Nashville to get water.
The status OF the balloons entered in
the national race is as follows:
Indiana, Fisher, not heard from since
last night.
st. Louis ILL.,, Lambert, reported landed
at Kelso. Tenn. Distance approximately
$40 miles. Time not known.
New York, Forbes, landed at Corinth.
Miss, s75 miles; 30 hours 10 minutes.
University City. Berry, landed Blanche,
Tenn. $40 miles. rs hours 95 minutes.
Hoosier, Baldwin. landed Greenbrier.
Tenn, $40 miles: hours not known; landed
early this morning.
Cleveland, Morgan. landed eight miles
west OF Columbus. Ind; 20 Giles: ? hours
SIS minutes,
Handicap race result:
Winner-The Indianapolis: DIR. Goethe
Link, pilot; X. j. Irwin, assistant; landed
westmoreland. Ky; distance. 2?5 miles;
time. 10 hours.
Second-The Chicago. c, A. Coey.
pilot; landed Scottsville, Ky; dist ancs
297 miles; time. II hours.
Third-The Ohio. DR.. H. W. Thompson
pilot; landed Nashville, Ind: 70 miles;
time 2 hours 20 minutes.
The Indiana wins both the dis lance and
duration trophies in the handicap race.
In the second international balloon
contest. held in st. Louis In 1907. Oscar
Erbsloh won the cup in a flight OF s72.2i
miles. and in the same race Alfred LIZ
Blanc established a record by remaining
in the air a hours. In the race Of 1908,
held in Berlin. this record for duration
was exceeded by a balloon that remained
In the air rs hours,