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Show STONB TELLS IMPRESSIONS OP PLUKOE FBOM CLOUDS CHIfAOO. Aug. IT Arthur Stone, the aviator who fell Into Lake Michigan with hla airship yesterday from a height of more than 1(H) feet, narrowly escaping death, told laat night how It feela to drop that distance and what hla Aral thoughts were after etrlklng the water. My flret thought." aald mono, 'when ! saw no tugs In sight and the atom coming, waa Til bet I won t get home to dinner In time.' funny, lan't It. when one la racing death, but that waa my Brat thought . "My next thought waa. Tva got to rwtm Iwcaitsa Those muttorrheaiM win sea me.' I acted on that second thougnt and paddled the water ylgorouely. "When I stop ta think hvw close I came tn poor Johnetona'a tragic end. It makes me quake. I first noticed that something waa wrong with my machine afteeM had mada the first turn on tha second lap. About two mllee out I pulled my controls. con-trols. They dldn"t work, k pulled and pulled. I waa drifting off tha course Into tha haay mist over the water and than I concluded that my and had come. "I pulled frantically at tha cantrola again and that time they responded. In-etead In-etead of making the left tura. aa I wanted, want-ed, tha machine darted up Into th. aky at terrific speed. I waa going .ut oast tha Una. I knew It waa running wild. I kept pulling the control, and trying to coma back to earth. Than suddenly thing happened to the eontrole. I felt the machine turn and than apeed for the lake. I triad to turn It tall first, hut oouldnt do It. Then I saw tha lake water. It aaemad to baeomlng up t; me. I waan't afraid. .Again I thought of John-atone John-atone and hla being dragged downbeneeth tha water. In the few seconds I waa falling, fall-ing, I did a thousand and one things. I held my hand over my faoa and alood up In tha cockpit.- When the machine waa thirty feet from tha water I dlyedhead-first dlyedhead-first and away from It It hit with rraat crash about tha aama tlma I hit. had on a Ufa preserver and waa able to keep afloat until tha tuga came. |