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Show AIR SAILORS ARE RESCUED Woman Catches Drag Rope and Stops Drift of Dirigible Chicago. Sepl 10. Horace B. Wild and John De Courcey, bis engineer, started out last night from Woodlawn In a 125-foot dirigible balloon. They wero sailing toward the down town district when a water plug blew out and they found themselves in serious trouble Beveral hundred feet In the air. Tholr cries were heard by Mrs. Walter R. Smith, who was on the roof of a shed In tho rear of her homo. Sho saw the craft was settling and also caught a glimpse of a long trail rope hanging from the balloon and dragging against buildings. As tho rope Jangled near her she seized it and hold on with all her 185 pounds of strength. She was dragged from the roof and ugalnst a fence, but sho held on and finally succeeded in stopping It Iho craft sottlod down among some telegraph tele-graph wires with no further damage than a broken rudder. |