Eureka Reporter | 1905-09-08 | Page 2 | Played with Dynamite Just Once Too Often

WITH JUST ONCE TOO aeronaut blown to atoms twenty ave thousand people include ng his wife and ch idren wit ness ng the accident benville een ville 0 in sight of 25 persons professor john baldwin was blown to atoms here thursday after noon by the explosion of six sticks ol 01 dynamite while 1 feet in the air his wife and three children were among the spectators who witnessed the tragedy baldwin has been giving daily exhibitions at the county fair here he would ascend several thou sand feet la the air and explode dynamite at intervals on thursday he mounted 1500 feet in the air every eye among the thousands of spectators below watched him he became almost a mere specie suddenly a great cloud of smoke appeared it hid the airship from view the spectators supposed as the balloon had vanished completely from sight in another moment the sound of the explosion reached the strain ing ears of the watchers but the air ship did not again appear for a mo ment the crowd waited expectantly thinking a view 0 the aeronaut would be obtained through a rift in the smoke then a groan of horror rose from the multitude the airship had vanished searchers immediately be gan looking for fragments of the wrecked airship baldvins baldwins Bald wins body was torn to fragments baldvins baldwins Bald wins business was aerial war tare demonstrations for nearly twenty years he had been giving bal loon and airship exhibitions about the country