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Show AERONAUTS HEETDEATH I Famous German Bal- H loonists Fall From H Great Height H Berlin, Oct. 21. The announcement H of the death yesterday of Lieutenant Hans Gorlcke, winner ot last year's international balloon race in tho Uni- ted States, aud bead of the team ot German defenders in the races to Vi H held from Stuttgart next Saturday, H created a profound sensation here to- H day. He was thrown from his bal- H loon at a height of three miles by tho IH explosion of the gas Dag, which n believed to have been struck b Ugh- niug.i Ills aide, Lieutenant Sleler, H also was killed. Gcrlcke and Steler H were making a trial tllght to teat the H balloon which they expected to use in tho international races. Just abovo H the town of Grosscnhain, they met .'. H thunderstorm ..which they attempted to H avoid by rising above the disturbance. When a mile in the air the craft v.-an H caught in an edd and becamo un- H manageable, H The recording apparatus showed H they were riding at a hoight of 6,000 H feet when they were suddenly hit bv a vertical gust of wind which pushed H them straight up with the violence if a hurricane to a height of more than H 15,000 feet ' At this altitude the bag H burst cither from the sudden chango in pressure, or. as is more likely, from H being struck by lightning. H Tho balloon embodied all the lai- H est ideas in gas bag construction and H was regarded throughout Germany as H tho likely wiunor of tnc international H cup in next Saturday's contest. Ger- H Icke and Steler had expected to try H for an altitude In the course of yes- H tcrday's flight and had equipped their H bag with oxygen tanlcs aud apparatus H to assist them in enduring the ran- H fied atmosphere IH |