New-York tribune., 1910-10-22
SERIOUS ALARM
FOR BALLOON|STS
America II. Dusseldorf u and
Azurea Thought Lost in Wllds
Of Canada.
NAY HAVE FALLEN IN LAKES
Alan r. Hawley and Augustus
Post Among the Missing
Canadian Rescue Ex-
peditions.
rB~ Telegraph TO The Trfouns.I


ST. Louis. Oct 21.-Relief expeditions
to search for the pilots and aids OF the
three missing baT1oons-Azurea (Swiss).
Dusseldorf II (German) and America II
UNITED States)-which started in the
race here Monday, will be
started from Toronto. on sunday
no news is received from them before
that time. This announcement was made
tonight by officials Of the Aero club OF
st. Louis
Serious alarm is felt for The missing
men. three OF whom are New TOrkers-
Alan r. Hawley pilot. and Augustus
Post aid. of the America II. and Samuel
r Perkins aid TO Lieutenant Hans
Gericke. pilot Of the Dusseldorf The
Azurea is manned BY Captain Emil
Messner. pilot. and Leon Giraudan- aid
It is believed that all these balloons
must have come down. and that the
aeronauts. If no worse fate has befalen
them. are in distress in the wilds OF Can
ada. perhaps facing starvation
The only one Of the six missing men
who carried a weapon vas Lieutenant
Gericke. who took a revolver with him
He said ne expected to shoot game II he
landed in wild part Of the country
Captain Messner expected 20 sleep
while in the air The Azurea was fitted
with a wicker couch One end OF the
basket had a hole cut in il. through
which the feet Of the sleeper could be
showed. Messuer also took along sup
pIv of cold tea with which TO nerve him
self for the fight
America II carried thirty bags Of bal
I last AerOnauts here do not believe IL
/ could remain in the air eighty-seven
/ hours. the time from vhen IL left here
/ Monday until 9 O'Clock this morning
To Search Lakes for Wreckase.
The Aero Club called upon General
Fred Allen. chief of the United States
signal corps at Washington. tonight 70
have the revenue cutters patrOIling the
/ Great Lakes look for wreckage in Lake
Huron. Steamship companies which
have vessels plying Lake Huron and
Georgian Bay have been requested TO
join in the search
g. The Ontario government. through
Lieutenant Governor Gibson. advised the
club tonight that its services would be
lent in the search for the missing men
The Hudson's Bay Company has also re-
piled favorably 70 the request sent out
to-day
/ Lieutenant Governor Gibson wired
from Toronto 70 the local officials a
follows.
Message received. Am consulting
with Sir James Whitney. Premier. Have
teIegraphed instructions 70 officials in
/ Northern Ontario TO gather information
and render all possible aid
/ The Hudson's Bay Company also re-
/ spcnded as follows.
/ Your message received Have for
warded same 70 all our agents in The
Lake Nfpissing district through the near
/ est post at North Bay"
| II was. announced tonight that a rep
resentatfve OF the Aero Club would be
/ sent TO Toronto 10 organize the relief
/ expeditions
| All the balloons should have been
down and reported by Wednesday night.
according TO Aero Club officers
Danger from Georgian Bay.
II was pointed out that the greatest
danger Is feared in the case OF balloon
( having descended in Georgian Bay
This stretch OF water contains rore
than thirty thousand islands OF ali sizes.
vbere the aeronauts might perish before
relief could arrive
A dispatch from Quebec says that one
| of the aeronauts Of the balloon Germanta
teIeuhoned tonight that a landing vas
made at COocOOcache. 179 miles north OF
Quebec. on Wednesday morning The
crew OF the Germania will leave Ia
Tuoue. the nearest point OF transporta-
zion. for Montreal tomorrow
COOCoocache is approximately 4'LSo
miles from St Louis. and may mean
that all records have been broken II Is
certain. If the reports are true. that all
World records in competition have been
eclipsed.
The last balloon 20 land was the Hei-
vetia. piIoted by Colonel Theodors
Scbeeck. winner OF the race from Berlin
in 1905. He landed near Vile Marie. on
lake Temiskaning. in Pontiac County.
Quebec. $50 miles from 81. Louis. on
Wednesday.
The balloon which was reported 20
have passed over Kisl>issing, ont. IS De-
uaved 10 have covered at least eleven
hundred miles