Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1910-10-19
WELLMAN GIVES
Up THE AMERICA
AEl,ONAUT AND COMPANIONS
PICKED Up ny STEAMER.
A GERMAN is LEADING
Balloon Gcrmnnla Believed tu 10
Leading In international
Race.

By Associated Prrss
New York, oct Mans first at
tempt 10 cross the ocean IN an air
ship failed, but Walter Wellman aud
i've companions who essayed the
voyage. are safe. Tho airshlp. tho
giant American, Is a battered aerial
derelict abandoned at sea and Is per.
haps still In the air perhaps sunk be-
meath the waves with costly equip
mcnt
When deserted 1t had been in tho
air probably ~ hours, u new worlds
record tor dirigibles. driven by wind
and travelled doubtless eight hundred
miles. Whether the distance record
for dlrigihles also win be broken re-
mains 10 be computed
Picked up by the steamship Trent
early this morning on the North Car
olina coast, Wellmqn and his fellow
air nallgators are due In New York
at noon tomorrow. They left the
craft only because she was in dis
tress aud had blown 50 far from tho
lane ot trans Atlantic steamship trav-
el that "a continuation OF the voyage
NlAll WV ifAAAlNli lNlfF 10 Ait uAltiAiNH
point was hopeless so they summoned
aid 10y wireless, The difficult and
, dramatic transfer To Trent was ac-
complished and the America left TO
the fate OF the winds. Tor an incident
without parallel in history--the trans
J fer of passengers from an airship 20
a eanlship-meager were the details
obtained by the wireless during the
day
The wireless at all times was more
or less uncertain, rendered more SO
I by a tropical storm which swept
northwHrd but tonight the wireless
stations In the vicinity Of New York
picked up from the Trent word here
and word there amplfying on the
earlier dispatches.
I II was learned that Wellman had
found II necessary TO rid the airship
OF the burden of most of its gasoline,
| retaining only enough 10 reach land
In the event the Trent had not come
to their rescue.
When the steamship needed It's calls
OF distress and drew near its aerial
| sister Welman shouted his predics
ment throughh megaphone and de-
cided that he would lower his life boat
| which swung from the dirigibles bel,
! ~. As q precaution the Trent low
cred her lifeboats, which stood by
! until the transfer was made.
Bnllou's Cross Lakes.
st. Louis. Oct lB.-Headlng
straight for Ontario across thee
Great Lakes along the best balloon
route in America, Captain Won Amer
cron, tho famous German pilot with
L. EnIfrnaH IN
be lending In the International race
for the James Gordon Bennett cup.
Somewhere within a radius OF
hundred miles over Lake Huron. dis
patches Indicate that the America III.
the Swiss Ielvetia and the Azurea
the French Isle De France and the
German Harburg [ and the Dussei-
dorl II are keeping close company
with the leader. II. II. Honeywell, IN
the balloon ST. Louis No, 4, is thought
10 be well up In front with the FOR
eign aeronauts.
Nothing definite has been heard nt
"A late hour from Theodore Schaeck
i'm the Helvetia or Lieutenant Mess
ner in the A2urea and nothing since
early i'm the afternoon from Jasques
! Faure in the Condor. The latter Is
reported 10 have attempted the pas
! sage to Lake Michigan without sue
cess and to have drifted farther north
I along the Wisconsin shores, Nine OF
I ten balloons are still sailing ana ak
are known to have crossed Lake
4 Michigan and others are thought TO
he either flying across Lake Huron or
havo passed II into Canada
Won Phul of st. Louis in the NIL
lion Population club, one OF three
American entrants. was forced to de-
scend at a point six and half mules
north of Racine, Wis this morning
because Of the lack Of ballast Leav-
/ ing Milwaukee and iylng az hlsh
altitude the aeronauts traversed the
! nerllous stretch Of more than one
| hundred miles of water me
! America II passed over Manlstee'
Mich. during the afternoon and me
otls,rs were reported over Muske-
gon. shelby and Pentwater