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Show SUFFERS AWFUL DEATH Balloonist Is Drenched With Blazing Oil and Fatally Burned. M'PHERSOX Kan., Sept. 5. While filling a balloon preparing to make an ascension Jack Leroy was fatally burned as a result of the explosion of the balloon when gasoline was thrown on the fire. Burning from head to foot, be broke through the crowd of terror-stricken spectators. Several men caught him and 'tore his clothes from him, but he waB so severely burned that no hopes for his recovery' are entertained. Leroy was working for J. C. Laprl, who fell from a balloou In Wichita a short time ago. Laprl was also the employer of Mrs. May Napier, who was killed in Wichita In a similar manner last week. |