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Show WIXXBB MADH TRIP AT HIOH ELEVATION CHICAOO, Julv lit. Detail, were obtained today of the trip of th ballooa bal-looa St. Louie IV. ia charge of Lion-tenant Lion-tenant Lahm aad Lieutenant Hart, which left Kaasas City at 4:50 p. at., aad landed at Lapas, lnd., sixteen miles from South Bend, at 4:15 p. m. yee-terday. yee-terday. The ballooa represented the aeronautic aeronau-tic corp. of th national guard of Missouri. Mis-souri. Lieutenant Hart said: "We mad the trip ia record breaking break-ing speed aad were between 16.000 and 22.000 feet from the earth during the entir journey. Our voyage wa ny-thing ny-thing but pleasant. Soon after leaving leav-ing Kansas City Monday afternoon we encountered a erie of thunderstorms, which mad It necessary for us te rise above the clouds t get away from the rain. The storm seemed to follow us all through Missouri aad Illinois. We eroded the MississiDDi river early on Tueeday morning. Our balloon behaved handsomely under the circumstance, although we were kept buay all the time. We never saw any of the other balloons nfter leaving Kansas City. We laaded without mishap In n large field and slept last night in a farmhouse. The highest altitude we reached was 22,000 fet.' |