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Show STOi EXPLODES BIG GASBALLOON BALLOON EXPLODES WHEN IT IS TWISTED FLAT OVER RIVER IN NATIONAL RACE Everything in Basket Is Hurled Over, board; Big Butternut Tree Saves Men After Long Fall Frankfort Springs, Pa. Caught suddenly sud-denly between two converging storms, the 'balloon "American Legionnaire," piloted by Captain Charles B. Mc-Culough Mc-Culough of the Pennsylvania railroad, was smacked flat, much as a paper bag is exploded by a sudden blow. The balloon, ! which left Indianapolis in the national elimination race July 4, was over the Ohio river at 'Corao-polis 'Corao-polis when the storms twisted it Oat. It shot earthward, Captain McCul-lough McCul-lough and his aide being saved by hurling overboard everything in the basket, even to the oxygen tanks, and by the fact that they landed in the spreading branches of a big butternut butter-nut tree. The "American Legionnaire" Legion-naire" was the seventh of the thirteen thir-teen entrants to be forced down. |