| Show FItO FROM 1311 THE AUTHENTIC OF THE VOYAGE special spec al telegraphic I 1 report deport of sir mr alyde to the ADAMS N Y jul july y 2 wise vise lamountain wager and their pas 11 steige nger landed on a farm in jefferson county co anty ten tell miles from this place at att twenty weny manul minutes es after two tuis afternoon all safe they trase traveled led over the whole of lake erie from toledo across long point passing below buffalo Buff iio and ai d the be niagara rails falls at twelve 1 atter after they had passed Duff buffalo alai a violent wind carried the balloon with great greaL velocity I 1 over 01 er lake ontario beffi e reaching within sight of the eastern shore of ontario the abiel sill chip ap lost her ascending power ani and rapidly sm sank toward ton lids 5 t the I 1 mater to the ballast had entirely given out th and nd the provisions provision water w iter supplies and rid om of the ile do lung in of the passe passengers in eta were mere thrown throw i overboard still the balloun balloon neared the lake with great velocity velo cit ax when lien it was found ne to take oll off the propeller machinery machine and pitch it overboard board these resul s still not being sufficient the ott oars s and seata of the boats were gi ell to the t ewaver vi aves all hards bards then left the boat a ad d clambered Is into the car sixteen feet above despite of all exertions the air vessel dimmed skim meil to within thirty feet of the water and actually darted the boat at into the lake I 1 it righted itself however lion and tile the balloon we i ent t on with w ith a speed of two tw 0 miles a minute 1 providentially the balloon reached the thore having travel traveled ed oi over er fifty miles just above the waves which were rough and boisterous tero but a terrific peril now appeared the bal balloon loon rushed into a thick forrest and tearing down treesa trees ard breaking branches pu pursued its resistless bourse for upwards of I 1 a malej mile dashing the occupants of the car to and fro against trunks and limbs till at last it caught a tall sycamore s and the silk rent into ribbons when then the apparatus at once came to a halt leaving leoung the voyagers suspended twenty feet in tle the air mr Lamoun talu was sli slightly liali injured abo it his limbs but all of the others ethers reached the ground safe the desance di sance from twelve to thirteen hundred ed miles accomplished in nineteen nine teel hours I 1 |
