Salt Lake Telegram | 1912-08-31 | Page 1 | Boy Falls 2000 Feet to Death

Ir r BOY FALLS 21 2000 FEET TO DEATH DEATO FLINT ir Mich ch Aug AuS' 31 Tn 11 In the presence prue pres pru- e ence erico of hundreds of at per persons fourteen- fourteen v old ear Chester Cheater Bette s son n of Bert N N. Betts Belts of ot Flint was accidentally caught by bythe bythe bythe the guy rope of a balloon yesterday and carried about 2000 poet foot In the air aJr before the tho rope untangled and hurled him to his hilI death Ho He crashed against tho roof of a 8 barn and was was- still alive when whon spectators reached hIm but ho he soon died The tragedy occurred at a county fair fairand fairand and when the balloon and aeronaut shot upward many persons thought the youth dang at the end of a rope rop was was wasa a dummy dum dum- my Tho The heroic effort of oC tho the balloonist to rescue the boy bov soon disclosed tho the truth to 0 the tho crowd below As AH the tha big gas gaB bag crept higher and higher the aeronaut In n peril of his own life liCe rould could be seen working desperately to pull pun the tho dangU dangling torm tn 01 m to the trapeze Final Finally tho the rope swirled away from th the tho lad and th the tiny form torm orm dropped downward like Uke a stone