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Show DROPS INTO LAKE j AND IS DROWNED CHARLOTTE. N. C, Spt. 4 After making a balloon aacenaion at Laka-wood Laka-wood park, a rlMmr reaort, and making mak-ing a flreworka diplav from tha rar Saturday night, H. 0. Brown, a daring Toung aeronaut of Michigan, fell with hi parachute into a ahallow artificial lake and waa drowned before a large crowd, who witnessed the display, could aave him. In making hie descent Brown 'a parachute para-chute failed to work and he fell rapidly rapid-ly into te lake. Several rowboata pit out to rescue thee aeronaut, but he drowned before they reached him. Brown, whose home waa in 8ainaw, Mich., had been giving balloon ascensions ascen-sions bare for several weeka. |