New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-07-13
ONLY One OF EIGHT
BALLOONS MISSING
Seven Report Landing, but
All Fail to Make Any
thing Like Record.
ONE HAS THRILLING
STORM EXPERIENCE
Air Conditions UnfavOrable for
National Elimination Race
from st. Louis.

st. Louis. July IL. Seven Of the eight
balloons which started from st. Louis
yesterday in the national elimination
race landed this afternoon and even
ing. OF these the Goodyear, plloted
by R. A. D. Preston, OF Akron, Ohio,
with NJ. d. Tremelin, also OF Akron,
as his aid, made the only impressive
fight. The Goodyear descended at
Constance, Ky, few miles south of
Cincinnati. at 500 p. M, having made
approximately 800 miles.
The other balloons heard from all
landed within a radius OF $50 miles OF
St. Louis. In the main they reported
unfavorabe weather conditions. Pres
ton, OF the Goodyear, reported that he
was compelled to descend because his
ballast gave out
The Kansas City II, John Watts.
pilot, landed near Enfield, ILL.,, after a
thrilling descent, according TO tele-
gram received late to-day. Watts said
that he landed at 2:30 p. m. to-day.
He explained that his balloon was
caught in an electrical storm. lie was
at an altitude of a thousand feet when
he began TO race 10 earth to avoid the
storm.
His injuries, caused by the capsiz-
ing of the basket when the balloon
landed in trees, consisted OF a spralned
ankle and few bruises. W. F. Com
stock, his aid, was unhurt. The bal
loon. Watts believed, was not serious
ly damaged
The San Francisco 1915, pilot +. S.
Cole. ST. Louis; aid. William H. Trefts,
st. Louis. was last heard from at 8
o'clock this morning, when the balloon
passed Dahlgren, Ill.
The Uncle Sam. OF st. Louis, with
Paul j. Mccullough as pilot and Will
lam II. Trefts as aid, landed six miles
southeast of Lewis, in Clay County,
Ind. at 9:2O o'clock this morning. The
distance travelled was approximately
40 miles.
The Pennsylvania pilot, George T.
Atherholt. landed four miles southwest
OF Rockville at 9:lj o'clock this morn
ing. Atherhot reported that he flew at
an altitude of 1000 feet most Of the
trip. He was compelled to land when
his gas supply was exhausted.
The America Ill landed near Prince
ton, Ind, at 1l:1O a. m. The distance
from st. Louis is approximately l3S
miles.
The Kansas City II landed at En-
field. H.. at 2:30 p. m.
The Aero Club Of St. Louis, Captain
John Berry, pilot, landed three miles
east Of Terre Haute, Ind, at 3 o'clock
this afternoon. Captain Berry was
compelled to descend to avoid a severe
wind and rain storm. The Aero Club
of St. Louis travelled about $50 miles.
The Goodyear. in charge of r. A. d.
Preston and ". d. Tremeln. OF Akron,
Ohio. landed at 6:20 tonight at Con-
stance. Ky. few miles below Cincin
natl Mr.. Preston said that his ballast
gave out.
The Miss Sofia. William Assmann,
pilot. Of St. Louis. landed at Flat Rock,
H., a distance of 1872 miles from st.
Louis.
Jasper G. Coin, of Dahlgrcn, H.,
followed the balloon San Francisco
1915, entered by the Panama Pacific
Exposition Company. in an automobile,
and after race OF ten miles overlook
it and talked with h. S. Cole. the
pilot. Cole dropped the following
message. which Coin picked up:
"San Francisco passed south of
Dahlgren. ILL.,, Sunday at a. m. In
a calm for five hours"
Dr. Jerome kinGsbury. Of New York.
pilot Of the America III and his aid,
Clarence Wynne, OF Philadelphia. sent
the following message from Mount
Carmel, H.:
"The America III landed safely at
11:l0 a. m. near Princeton. Ind. Had
trouble at the start with light. vari-
able winds. which kept us in and
around 81. Louis until 1880 a. m. to-
day. We crossed and rccrosscd the
city four times last night at various
attitudes. Finally We secured favor
able west wind, but whcr we had only
fourteen bags Of ballast
1--WE drifted at a comparatively low
altitude until this morning. when we
went 10 an altitude of 1000 feet. and
kept making good progress until all
ballast was exhausted except one bag,
when we made a direct descent to the
landing place"