Yellowstone monitor. [volume] (Glendive, Mont.) 1905-1928, 1909-02-04
PECULIAR ACCIDENTS.
The "lrony of Life" illustrated In
Stories of Falls.

The ~lrony of Life" illustrated In
Stories of Falls.
The "irony of life" was strikingly
Illustrated recently in the news OF
rustic who slipped from six barred
gate and broke his neck and of an
italian aeronaut who fell 1000 feet
with his collapsed balloon with no
worse result than sprained ankle.
A Frenchwoman, Nine. Morel, and
her daughter, while climbing in the
Aims, near Zermatt, fell distance Of
/ 200 feet, not much less than quar-
fer Of mile, and, although the mother
was killed on the spot, her daughter
ESCAPED with a few bruises. Mr..
Wbymper, the famous mounta1neer,
had similarly miraculous deliverance
from what seemed to be certain death
when sealing the Matterhorn. Losing
his footing, he fell from rock to rock
tn the bottom of a precipitous gully,
100 wards in depth, only to recover his
feet with no worse damage than a
hadlv cut head. And NJ Parville, a
French writer, tells the story Of an
East Indian living in the Island or
Ogbin who fell over a precipice 1000
feet deep with no more serious con-
sequence than a good shaking, his fall
being broken by the dense vegetation
which grew at the foot Of the cliff.
While climbing waterworks tower
$40 feet high in Chicago steeple-
lack dislodged q loose stone and was
nrecipitated to the ground from
height of It's feet fortunately strik-
ing telegraph wires forty feet above
the street and thus breaking his fall.
The spectators gasped with horror as
they saw the man drop swiftly to de-
gtruction. A rush was made to pick
up his shattered remains only to dis
cover that he was practically I'M
harmed. Not a bone was broken, and
week later he was walking about as
If nothing had happened.
More remarkable and indeed al
most incredible was the experience OF
Charles Woolcot when he was making
a parachute descent in Venezuela. At
himself off his balloon into space,
when, to the horror Of the thousands
Of onlookers, the parachute failed to
open. The man dropped like stone
with terrible speed until, when about
200 feet from the earth, the parachute
few open and at once collapsed. He
was dashed to the ground, his right
thigh and hip were broken, both ankles
and knees were badly crushed, and his
spinal column was dislocated, and yet,
after year spent In hospital, Woolcot
was restored to s0undness of limb aft
err surely the most terrible adventure
Of which any man has lived to tell the
story.
But 1t Is in the history OF ballooning
that one encounters the most remark
able cases of sensational drops from
the clouds. When Mr.. Wise, a famous
aeronaut Of the early nineteenth CEN
fury, was once making an ascent his
balloon exploded at an altitude OF 49,
UVo feet and began to drop swiftly TO
the earth, more than a couple OF
miles below. THE descent ut first was
rapid" Mr.. Wise writes, sand accom-
panied by fearful moaning noise
caused by air rushing through the net
work and the gas escaping from above,
In another moment felt slight shock
and, looking up to see what caused it
l discovered that the balloon was can't
Ing over, being nicely doubled In, the
lower half into the upper"
The balloon had, in fact, formed it
self into a parachute and, oscillating
wildly, continued It's descent until il
struck the earth violently, throwing
the aeronaut ten yards out Of the car
The car had turned bottom upward
and there STOOD" says Mr.. Wise
congratulating myself and the per
SEPARATION rolling down my forehead II
profusion."-St Louis Post Dispatch.