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Show BALLOON Oil is iipi Helvetia Lands at YiIIe-3M Quebec, Late Thursdafl Afternoon. 'S UNIDENTIFIED BALLOONM ARE SIGHTED AT PETOSB Pilot of the Hamburg III. -9 Graphic Story of 9 Landing. ST. LOUIS. Ocl. 20. Colonel Thfl Schacck, piloting the Swiss balloonfl vctia. which started in the liitprna race here Monday, landed at VUIc-H Pontine county, Quebec, laic thfr'll noon, according to a message re by the Aero club of St. Louis Ville-Marle is about 1100 miles norjfl of St. Louis. . This is not thought to be Iho biH sighted at Klsklslnk CanaiM 1"doB from St. Louis, today. If the rccl that balloon Is authentic It makH International race started here thtB remarkable In balloon annals. rJH The other three balloons, whlclH believed lo have reached Cnnadal landed, arc the Swiss balloon Lieutenant McKsncr. pilot: the GH balloon Duesseldorf IT., Lieutenant Gerieke. pilot, and the America 1L;S 11. Ilawley. pilot. Lieutenant Leopold Yogt. pilot ofl Hamburg III., which landed in-vH Niplsslng. Ontario. Tuesday nkjhtSB scribes graphically In a. telegram hM and his sudden landing. He and hiiH William Assmann of St. Louis. ImH they were about to recross LakclH when they decided to land. .jH Story of Landing. $M In his telegram he said. 'fl "We reached Lake Huron TuosoijH crnoon at -1 o'clock and were acr Continued on Page KlcvealiB BALLOON ftACE H IS WONDERFUL Continued from Pace Ton. at 6 o'clock. Then we were driven back again. IH "Tho wind changed, and the next we saw was the water of Lake Niplsslng. which wo believed was Lake Huron. Not having enough ballast to cross tho big lake, wo made all arrangements to cut IH loose the basket if necessary, and then IH we decided to come down. "Wo were about 6000 feet up. so wa had to let out the gas. Intending to alight tM on land, but we landed In the water IH close to Gull Island. Lako Niplsslng. IH where we had to fight two hours In tho IH wacr. swimming and towing the balloon vM to shore. We were rescued by two In-dlans, In-dlans, Peter and Alexander Commando, at 10 o'clock, but it was quite a while tM before the Indians would come near us, VM as they thought the moon had fallen into the lake. However, they took ti3 oft the Island and up to Niplsslng village, where wo received the kindest treatment from the citizens. "I have a tug now going to pick up the balloon and load it on the Grand Trunk at Callander. I expect to start to- jH night at 11 o'clock for Toronto. Next week I will sail for my homo in tho Gey- mania. My chum. Herr Assmann. had IH one arm broken and badly cut. He has ll left for St. Louis." PETOSKEY. Mich., Oct. 20. Three un Identified balloons, which arc thought tt. IH be contestants In (he International bal-loon bal-loon race out of St. Louis, were sighted here at 7 p. m. Two were going east IH and one was heading toward the north. IB HAILEYBURY. Ontario. Oct. 20. The Germanla sailed over Lake Tcmlskamlng. When sighted at South Lorraine; twenty miles south, at 7 o'clock this morning. It IB wan fivlng so close to earth that a miner IH named Tydfill was able to make out tho first four letters of the name Gormanla. Tho captain of the littlo steamer Silver Lake was the last to sec the Germanla. It was then traveling at great speed in a northeasterly direction Into the thick VM forests of northern Quebec, whero there IH arc few settlements. IH |