Show balloon fatalities the recent unfortunate and probably fatal balloon ascension ascension of sir mr thuston AN aich has created such a painful interest throughout the country countr y has also brout brought bt out through the col columns dumns of the newspaper press many scraps of history connected with the balloon traveling aveling ti the providence journal has compiled quite quite a list of fatalities and adds that it does oes not know of one distinguished aeronaut that has not met wit h a violent death by means of a balloon Arr among iong the first who commenced these oy ages were af and al romaine romain of france fiance they made an ascent froia from cologne bologne june 15 1758 with a montgolfier balloon a fire being kindled underneath and the balloon ballon ascended by means of a rarefied air air at an agazim amazing hight the ithe balloon took fire burnt the cords by chich the car was nas suspended and the unhappy occupants pants were ft ere perci p stated to the earth I 1 dashing them to pieces in a manner too shocking to mention M Ilam beccari caril accompanied by a friend made an ascent from the same place sept ad 1812 on his descent 9 the balloon become entangled in the branches of a high tree and ere it c could be disengaged caught ire fire the aeronauts aero ae leaped leape out 0 ut Zam beccari was killed on the spot and AL begona sur v ived but it a sh short ort time about the same time a named artore Br Bry tore ascended from man hiem at AE a considerable bight hight hightop he hp per ce ived too late that the vehicle wa damaged a lie ile opened the valve descended desce ned w with ith great i velocity elo city and wasa w as dashed to pieces against a house madame ma d ame blanchard bianchard ascended from trivoli julya july 8 1819 during the progress of a fite fete there at the hight of four hundred feet her balloon carbt taught fire she w was as precipitated upon tie the pavement paiement and instants instantly killed mr harris a very ery experienced aeronaut was killed may 1824 he went up tip from city road london at the hight of two miles he ha commenced to des descend cen d rapid rapidly was precipitated to the earth carty and dashed to pieces A sir mr green ascended ascend rd from cardiff july 11 1849 1649 his body was found S sometime 0 alteron af after teron on the 1116 flathouse flat house shoals in m the centre of bristol channel M arran a celebrated I 1 french renca aeronaut ascended from barcelona in in september 1848 1916 nothing was h heard ea r d of him inn till the middle of november ahen hen his us body was found near rosas gade ascended from the hippodrome of vincennes on sunday sep 11 1850 some days subsequently the th body was found in a clump of ferns his limbs broken and mutilated the face completely eaten a away b dogs and other animals ile he had prey previous ly met in et with several narrow w escapes james goulston made alid e lin an accent in in the evening from th the e bellevue gardens june ad 1852 the balloon was a 1 new one forty feet high thirty three feetie beet in diameter holding twenty three thousand babic feet of gas it bein being cloudy at the time the car wai w as lost from froin view new in two minutes mii jutes he fell from his teh vehicle icle in in attempting empting to descend at the t town own of leeds a considerable consider ible quantity of blood and brains spattered over over a wall marked the spot where he struck uck the earth mr knight ascended from bomba bombay december ath 1853 in in thy pres presence ence of if a large irge concourse of natives tives amongst a mon ast whom w horn was w as the rajah of darah dar w ho 0 promised the aeronaut tv two 0 hundred rupees if he went up and came down doun again of which the rajah had great doubts the balloon I 1 travelled straight out mit to td sea sea and mr knight h has as not since sinca been teara beard eronie t in iii september Sep 1851 Is AT merle and a companion were we re carried off by li a balloon which broke from its iti moorings moorings they we asce ceded to fahla sa hla big night that merle vw vas to dettis and a nd th |