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Show I , I ' Acrcnr;:i and Wcnnn Ccuipani:n Narrowly Escape Death. LTNN, Mass.. July10.-Vlth a straight drop of 1000 feet to what seemed certain ;deathf""Vllliam Canfleld. a Boston aeio-raut, aeio-raut, leaped from his ballon over Lynn common. In order to save Mrs. CamlUe Stafford, a woman aeronaut, who ascended ascend-ed wlthNhlm. She escaped unhurt. He Vaa badly. injured by striking the side of a house as his parachute swung in the : strong wind. Five thousand persons tyit-.nessed tyit-.nessed his startling descent. The balloon was found to be leaking and . fhe gas was escaping rapidly. Mrs. Staf-I Staf-I ford leaped some time after Canfleld left i the balloon, striking In an apple tree, from which she waa rescued unhurt. |