OCR Text |
Show lure issue, BAH LEAKY j - . Race Officials Fear for the Safety of Wichita's Two Entrants. -ST. LOUIS. Mo.. Oct. 3. Fear for the safety of Captain Carl Dammann and j Lieutenant Kdwurd J. Verheydcn, pilot 1 and aide, respectively, of the Wichita, Kan., Aero club entry Into the national championship balloon race, waa expressed tnday by Major Albert Bond Lambert, an official of the race. ' No word has been received from them .since they took the air shortly after 6 p. rn. Wednesday, when the race started from hero, and .Major Lambert today announced an-nounced their craft was a bit leaky when they ascended. Apparently the "Ohio," the smallest of the ten balloons in the contest, has traveled trav-eled farthest of any of the six which have landed. Captain Warren Rasor, its pilot, telegraphed he descended at 1 p. in. yesterday at Perry Sound, Ont., several hundred miles north of Simcoe county, where the Murphysboro, 111., entry came to earth. . KANSAS CITY. Oct. 3. Georjre M. Myers, referee of the national championship champion-ship balloon race which started at St. Louis today, received the following telegram tele-gram from Captain H. E. Hunnewell and Kov C. Donaldson, pilots of the Kansas City, IT: "( 'ardinal, Canada, Oct. 2. Landed safely two and one-half miles north of Cardinal, province- of Ontario, Canada, at (J p. m. tonight, after dodging storms on Lake Michigan, Lake Huron and Georgian Geor-gian bay. Leaving for home tomorrow. Hunnewell and Donaldson." SFTURBTtOOKE, Quebec. Oct. 5. One of the balloons which left St. Louis at 6 p. m. October 1, in the national championship cham-pionship balloon race, landed at Stan-bridge, Stan-bridge, near here, last night. The balloon, bal-loon, with Ralph Upson and W. T. Or-iiidii Or-iiidii on board, covered about 1000 miles in twenty-six hours. The balloon was forced down by heavy rain. |