Gunnison Gazette | 1909-07-09 | Page 2 | Boy Caught in Balloon Ropes and Carried up in Air |

Type	issue
Date	1909-07-09
Paper	Gunnison Gazette
Language	eng
City	Gunnison
County	Sevier
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Article Title	Boy Caught in Balloon Ropes and Carried up in Air
Type	article
Date	1909-07-09
Paper	Gunnison Gazette
Language	eng
City	Gunnison
County	Sevier
Page	2
OCR Text	Show Boy Caught in Balloon Ropes and Carried Up in Air. Santa Cruz, Cal. In the presence of 20,000 people, gathered on the beach to celebrate the Fourth, Jesse Woten, a ten-year-old boy, was caught In the ropes of a balloon during an. ascension Monday afternoon and carried car-ried head downward 500 feet in the air. Scores of women, including the boy's mother, fainted as they saw the little fellow carried away. As the balloon drifted out over the ocean, Virgil Moore, the aeronaut, drew the boy up to him and held him close to his side on the trapeze bar.
Reference URL	https://newspapers.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s67p9w50/3583964