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Show BALL00NIS1S SAVED MEN WHO HAD BEEN GIVEN UP AS LOST FINALLY REACH QUEBEC. Were Participants In the Balloon Raco From St. Louis and Prove to be Heroes of the Greatest Flight on Record. Quebec. Alan R. Ilawley and Augustus Au-gustus Post, the balloonlsts who wero given up for lost, but who are tho heros of the greatest balloon Might on record, have arrived here after an experience ex-perience thnt was more trying than earlier reports indicated, but mightily pleased because the cup for which they contested remains in Americn. "There never was a time," Mr. Hawley said, "when I considered that our Mves were actunlly In danger, but our supply of food was short and .1 consider that we were f -tunnto In reaching Jacques Maltais's cbin in tho wooii when wo did. Taken altogether, alto-gether, It wns not u dlsngreeable experience ex-perience by any means, nnd best of all, the cup fcr which wo made the fiight romalns at homo." The men had terrible experiences after thoy had loft St. Louis, in tho great balloon race, being caught In a thunderstorm near the town of Normandy Nor-mandy nnd being forced to bring their balloon to the earth. They slept In the basket that night, and next day were unable to move their balloon, being be-ing forced to resume their Journey on foot, through a country unknown to them. Hnw'cy injured Ills log, and their progress was slow, hut thoy Hnn'.ly came to a cabin In tho woods, and after that their progress toward j civilization was comparatively easy. ( In tho mean time, for several days i . they had boon given up for dead, very' 1 j few believing they would ever ho seen I again. |