The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-02-24
CYCLONE LEAPEO THE GAP |NTOETERNITY.
WHILE MAKING THRILLING RIDE HE FELL. TO
HIS DEATH IN PRESENCE OF THOUSANDS

Tue thousands of people witness
i ing the performance last Thursday
4 NIGHT of Charles J. Honneus, the
"cvciing cyclone" who was with the
! Great Metropolitan Shows in Daw-
con we're Mortified to see him fall
from the track and his bicycle drop
10 the ground in two pieces as he
descended from the air in making
the last leap of his thrilling exhibit
i ton.
It was instinctively realized that
The daring rider had been seriously
burt. and the great throng of spec
tators were panic-stricken.
The injured man was taken to the
office of DR.. Guy Chappell, and an
examination that was made by Drs.
Cbappell and Kenyon showed that
his left jaw bone and his nose had
been broken. His forehead was a
mass of raw flesh, and all of his teeth
had been knocked out. DR.. w. H.
Howl, the dentist, was called In and
the broken jaw set and wired, the
wounds dressed, and his face put in
a plaster cast.
Honneus was kept in the physi-
clans office and every attention pos
sfbIe was given him. 1t was thought
Friday morning that the chances for
his recovery were good, but in the
IL 49,
show a change for the worse, and
at o'clock Saturday morning he
passed away.
Mr.. j. R. Anderson, the general
manager of the carnival company,
bought a neat coffin for the dead
man and had an undertaken to come
down from Americas and embalm the
body after which it was removed to
the home of Mayor Marlin to await
the arrival of his brother, who was
then in Tampa, Fla, doing a similar
stunt for another carnival COM
pany
1t was first intended to send the
body of Honneus to Boston, Mass,
his home, but after the arrival of
the brother Sunday morning and
consultation with the wife of the
dead Snowman it was decided that
the interment would take place in
Cedar Hill, Dawson's beautiful GEM
etery. .,
Funeral Services in Church.
The funeral services were held at
4 o'clock Sunday afternoon in
the Baptist church, which had been
rendered by the pastor, Rev. N. B.
O'Kelley, for the purpose, and were
conducted in an impressive manner
by Mr.. O'Kelley and Rev. o. B. Ches-
ter of the Methodist church in the
presence of one of the largest audi
enCes that ever assembled in Daw-
son on a similar occasion. The SER
vices were touching, and there were
many moist eyes.
In the funeral procession, which
was the longest ever seen in Daw-
son, the carnival company marched
in double file behind the hearse. and
while going from the church to the
cemetery the carnival band played
funeral march.
The people of Dawson showed
their interest in the strangers and
the DereaVed wife of the dead cycliSt
by tender messages of sympathy, and
the ladies' sent many pretty floral
offerings for the casket.
HOnneus' Sensational Stunt.
Honneus' sensational stunt was to
coast down an incline, beginning
SlXty-tive feet in the air, on a bicycle,
Ieaping across two wide gaps before
reaching terra firma. The first gap
was twenty feet wide, and the ''cy-
clone on his wheel in jumping
across it described a parabola fifty
feet in length.
1t was in making the second leap,
nearer the ground, that the fatal &C
Qdent occurred. The second gap was
thirty feet wide, and was located al
most at the bottom of the incline. In
making this leap Thursday night the
cyclone" was thrown too great
Instance. When he landed the front
wheel struck the ground at the foot
VI the incline while the rear wheel