| Show I WALKED ON I LVE WIRES Thrilling Fet of the Sal Palace Aeronaut I HAD A NARROW ESCAPE NERVY EFFORT TO RECOVER ms BALLOON I Exciting Performance Tat Was Not AdversedBaloon Lodged I Telephone Wires and Trimble Went After Iustaned Severe Shocks ad Hands Were Blistered I thrilling witnessed a Over rC persons Ing and nervy feat of Professor lion Pal Salt at the Trlmble the aeronaut ace yesterday To save his balloon which had fallen and become entangled among the telegraph and telephone he wires on Twelfth South street Twelth walked over the live wire sustaining walted le reached the until he shock after shock unt balloon and saved it I 0a3 i ascension He had made the afternoon successfully from the Sal Palace grounds and had alighted with hIs gounds and a about one parachute In a field feld bal the grounds The half mIles below gounds lon mies gone higher in the air till It struck a north current of wind and was brought back I descended two In the Palace grounds blocks south of the network of wires on Twelfth South There it remained fastened and all efforts Tere I forts to dislodge It were unavailing When Trimble came up he saw at once that Trmble pul off the balloon would the destroy it The wIres would tear I delicate silk Into shreds The only way to get It was to build a scaffolding or and walk out on the climb up a pole wires As another ascension was scheduled sched-uled for 8 oclock there was no time to lose Walked t Wires I Trimble climbed the pole without difficulty clmbed ficulty and then started to walk the wires some thirty feet to where the balloon was fastened The crowd of women and children and many who had come down from the Salt Palace looked on with amazement He was about forty feet ii1 the air and he began be-gan to walk oct on the wires steadyIng steady-Ing himself by holding to those above his head with his hands There was no trouble so long as the wires did not touch because there was then no electric shock from them But I he could not keep them from swinging together and each time two of them touched he sustained a shock The electricity shot through him and he was almost force to let go but with wonderful nerve he still held on As he reached the entangled balloon he received a fourth shock and It burned I blisters on three or his fingers He blsters struggle onward and just as he reached the balloon thl swinging wires touched again The first finger or his right hand was burned till It almost sIzzled Still he held on for to have let go would have meant almost certaIn cer-taIn death on the ground below He pushed the wires apart again and fell over on to the balloon which spread over the wires There he lay for a moment mo-ment almost entirely exhausted He did not touch the wires again fearing weaken that another shock would so him that he would fall to the ground He felt that he could not possibly go back over the wires after lOosening the I balloon and he knew that when It was baloon thrown off the wires would come together to-gether anti so great would be the shock that he might be killed or rendered unable un-able to move Saved By a Rope Calling for a rope t was thrown over the wire and he fastened It about his waist Several men held it from the I I ground and as he pushed the balloon off he jumped after I bEfore the wires had time to rebound He fell for fifteen fet before the slack of the rope was caught and he dangled In the air the wire over which the rope had passed acting as a pulley He was gradually and safely let d6ssn to the ground Trmble undaunted by his l1per lence gave another exhibition that amused and delighted hundreds He carried red fire up In the air and letting let-ting it doira below the balloon and pa achute were lighted more clearly than by the sun A powerful lamp that he had taken up could be seen for miles around |
