Milford chronicle., 1910-11-04
IERONAUTS TELL
OF HARDSHIPS
SnoWStOrm Caused Post and
HaWIGy to Descend,
NEARLY LANDED IN LAKE
CIV Sailors Suffered Greatly During
the -Four Days They Sought Civili-
zston In Wilds Of Canada.

the Four Days They Sought civili-
zstion In Wilds Of Canada.
HawIey and Post, of the balloon
America H., which left ST. Louis on
Oot II in the international balloon
,sce and landed in the wilds of Can
sda reached Quebec, having taken
eleven hours in travelling the pr miles
from Chicoutini by the Lake ST. John
railway.
They travelled 1855 miles in forty
six hours and established a new record
for balloons.
Both men are in excellent health
and spirits. Notwithstanding their
strenuous experiences of the last ten
days.
Many interesting new details Of
their flight were given out by the aero
nsuts Their course into the wilds of
northern Quebec was rather more wes-
terly than that of the Dusseldorf,
which landed near Kiskisink, due
south Of Lake st. John, for the Amer
lea II. in soaring north of Lake st.
John left the big inland sea to the
Immediate east. obtaining fine view
Of # and crossing first over the As
huapmouchouan river and the village
Of Peribonca, just south Of Lake
Tschotogama. 1t was on the shore OF
Lake Tschotogama that HaWley and
Post fell in with the hunters who
piloted them into the pathway OF
safety.
I'VE we're doing our best said Mr..
Post 10 fly to the utmost limits that
the continent would allow We knew
perfectly well where we when
we passed over Lake st. job, / We'd
nesday, the 18th. and we made up our
minds that if possible we wouldn't
descend until we got to the coast o
Labrador On Wednesday afternoon
however, the weather, which had been
threatening all day, began to make us
very appreAensiye.
AT g o'clock in the afternoon snow
had already began to fall and soon our
view of the earth beneath was almost
entirely obscured. We judged that this
meant the end OF our trip for it would
have been madness to have pursued
the journey in a binding snowstorm.
Furthermore, the extreme cold had
caused our gas to contract and we had
begun to fall apidly We only had six
and half J. IS of ballast left, when
at last very eluctantly we decided to
effect a landing We at once began to
look around for a good landing place, F.
but owing to the rapidity with which
the snowstorm overlook us We had TO
trust pretty much to luck.
I'VE found ourselves dropping d.
rectly into a large lake, which we af .
forwards discovered to be Lake Chilo /
CANA We Immediately threw out sew
aral bags of ballast and rose slowly
and heavily in the snowstorm. Madly
We threw ont more ballast for the lack
Of ready response by the balloon had .
alarmed us and made us think for a
moment that we should possibly per
sh in the lake-a miserable ending to
such a splendid journey
But on a terrific gust Of wind the
balloon whirled aloft carrying us in
ew seconds beyond the lake. Then we
1t once let our the gas and came down
safely on The side Of a huge hill 1t is
Unlikely that the balloon will be re-
covered.
I'VE really suffered greatly from the
old as we tramped slowly away from
he America H. We were seriously
by the goods we had to
Jack, for it was absolutely necessary
O take along the heaviest clothing
,esides the remaining food. Frequent
y we made through streams of ice
old water SO cold was the weather
hat at times our clothing was frozen
o our bodies. When we came across
he trappers the fourth day We could
ave cried for joy. We were about
il in"