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Show I PLATED WITH MIMTE JUST ONCE TOO OFTEN Aeronaut Blown to Atoms, Twenty, five Thousand People, Including His Wife and Children. Witnessing Wit-nessing the Accident. Greenville, O. In sight of 25,000 persons Professor John llaldwln wns blown to atoms horo Thursday afternoon after-noon by tho explosion of six sticks ot dynamlto whllo 1,500 feel In tho air. His wlfo and threo children woro among tho spectators who witnessed tho tragedy, llaldwln has been giving dnlly exhibitions at tho county fair hero. Ho would ascend several thousand thou-sand feet In the nlr and explode dynamlto nt Intervals. On Thursday ho mounted 1,500 feet In tho air. Every oyo among tho thousands ot spectators below watched him until ho becamo almost n moro speck. Suddenly a grcnt cloud of Btnoko appeared. It hid the -airship from view, tho spectators supposed, as tho balloon had vanished completely from sight. In another moment the sound ot tho explosion reached tho straining strain-ing oars of tho wnlchers, but tho airship air-ship did not again appear For a moment mo-ment tho crowd waited expectantly, thinking a view of tho aeronaut would bo obtained through n rlit in the smoke. Then a groan of horror rosd from tho multitude. Tho airship had vanished. Searchers Immediately bo-gan bo-gan looking Tor fragments of tho wrecked airship. Daldwln's body was torn to fragments. Daldwln's business was aerial war-faro war-faro demonstrations. For nearly twonty years ho hnd been giving balloon bal-loon and airship exhibitions about tho country. |