Show A GREAT ARMY balloonist english aeronaut has frightful ex peri ence at dizzy height col templer who has done such ex cellest work with the anay army balloons in south africa was the subject many years ago ot of perhaps the most remark able escape ever recorded in the an nals of ballooning he Is probably the only man who has been carried senseless to a height of more than 20 feet to this day he bears on his face the mark of a marvelous ex per peri lence ence he can never forget A sud den gust of wind had blown his corn com panion from the car sent up the bal loon with the colonel alone and dashed the car against the ornamental iron work at the top of a the collision had a disastrous and tragic eff effect act the ropes were cut in two causing the balloon to hang on its side and the whole of the unsecured instruments to drop out A piece of 0 ironwork cut deep into the colonels face tearing his cheek the balloon revolving rapidly in midair rose to a great height the severed ropes twined round the colonel suspending him in the most frightful position the mind can conceive then the aeronaut fainted and when he came to his senses the earth was 20 feet below him he was a prisoner in an ancon trolled balloon with the car dangling beneath him and he was to add to the horror of the bostion suffering intense pain and bespattered with blood the novelist who brought his character alive and well out of such a situation would be accused of absurd extravagance 3 et col templer Is alive and well today to day and has done yeoman service in the war who else among living men can say that he has been carried tour four miles high entangled in a rope 7 london telegraph |