Show u TAKES LONG DROP ESCAPES DEATH NIDRASKA AIRONAUT HAS A THRILLING EXPERIENCE IN TESTING FLYING MACHINE USED BALLOON TO ASCEND Then Cut Loose ald with His Newly Invented Air Craft Dropped 3500 Feet In One MinuteNot Even Injured Drolccn Bow NobMtor tumbling nearly threequarters o a mllo to tho earth wllh his flying machine Url Sorenson Is going to try It again Sor enson la tho vlllago blncksmllh or Der wyn Custer county nnd the only lIvIng lIv-Ing aeronaut who has tried to ride a lying machine that ho had cut loose from n balloon bacle to earth Bacle In 1901 a California neronaut tried H threo times Tho first two tlmea ho eSCallCl Injury Tho third time ho wns Ieilled Soronson Is tho towns mechnnlcal genius Down I1t his blacle mllh shop ho bas Jeen reading up for the lust lvo years 011 aeronuutlcs IInd bas closely followed the experhnentl of oppelln tho Wrlghts nnd tho others who hnve endeavored to conquer the nlr For almost as many years ho has boen working on models of his own Last weelc ho finished a machine Which ho bolloved would l1y On tho afternoon of tho test moro ttan a thousand men women amI children chil-dren somo or wllOm hnd driven 30 nliles across tho prnlrlos to bo lrOS i tnt gathored on th village green behind be-hind SoronsclOs worlesholl 10 wltnoss his nscll1t To accustom hlmsolf to lghts Sorenson learned tho trick of Imlloonlng with parachute attachment and for tho lust threo years has had engagoments nt nelJhborlng falts 1ho balloon ho used was Inflated wllh hol air At n signal It was let loose and Sorenson holding tho para chulo ascended with It nntll he reached tho propor height Then he ullomatlcally cut loose his parachute r Next Instant It Bgan to Whirl It opened nnd he floated gracefully to he ground Sorlnson got the Idea that the same prlncllllo could be worleed In connection connec-tion with n fiylng machlno lie ullt 1 mnchhlo on much tho samo piau us the Wright neroplano 110 Inflated nls big balloon tied the machlno to It with an nttachment similar to that used with pnrachutes and gavo the tJlgnal to letjgo the balloon It shot up rapldlr nnd when about 3 OO feet nbove tho earth he cut 10050 with the automatic kntre lle expected thnt It Would tloat that ho could guldo Ii at wl1 nnd rille safely to tho grouud lIon It Ho guessed wrong In making the ascent ho had to pull the mnchlne up In a dillerent position from that which It was expected to lako when Ooatlng In tho air The moment Jefore It left tho earth tho end ot tho machine thrashed upon tho groUlIl and tho rudder allli both wings wero broken lIo had threo parallel bnrs runnln th length of tho machlno Ono or Ihem he straddled and the others wero foot rests Before he couid reach the IQvors It was nccessary for tho machine I ma-chine to right ItsoH rhls It did nUer It had dropped a few hundred feet but when he got hold or the loyers ho found they would not worlt 110 realized In an Instant what hall happened hap-pened but he was holpless A moment later tho machine began 0 dltJ and duck and thon turned threo omplete sOlllesnulls The next Instant In-stant It began to whirl nt a rate es Umat ri b Sorensoh at about a hun Jred times n IIIlnute and con tinned t until It crushed upon tho ground rho lapso of time from tho cuWng IvSO from the balloon until ho strucle ho earth wus about a minuto Sov al or the spectators had lJUlled stop atchos lo ascertain ow long be uld romaln In tho air and all cauglu t at CO seconds Sorenson retnlnell his grip upon tho Ilolos aud came down In a IIllting po dUon Evoryono expected to find him lead but Instead he crawled out ot Ihe wrccleage and beolld a lIU1p howed no InJuries Sorenson Is not disheartened lie 11 try It IIgaln as soon as he hat tbred money ellourh to build Jther mllchluo |