Emery County Progress | 1909-03-13 | Page 2 | Aeronaut's Accident

AERONAUTS ACCIDENT drops into ocean off san pedro and loses L fe san pedro cal while hundreds watched his frantic efforts to control a great bag which was swiftly oaring loaring l him the pacific ocean monday afternoon I 1 ester likins an amateur aeronaut 22 years old soar ed with uie balloon to a height ot more than 4 feet before ha cut locae his parachute and dropped into the waters of the outer harbol to his death As the stiff wind blowing off the land carried him out to sea boatmen hastily left the inner harbor in launches to rescue him when he time down should he be unable to glide the balloon back over the land but were unable to reach the place where be fell and his bod has not been