Show I EDGAR EDOM JI MIX X W NS IONAl I i BAlLOON RACE RAC N RUSSIA RUSSA Message From th the Daring Aeronaut States lIe Is in iii the Hands of the One of the j BaHoo s Reached Altitude of 18 Feet J Zurich Oct OcL International balloon race raco for the Gordon Bennett Cup has been bean on on b Edgar W V Mix 0 II x the aeronaut o of Columbus Ohio Mr Mix lix landed north of Warsaw Varsa In Russian Poland at 3 Tuesday morning We won with plenty of lime tinie to spare front from Alfred L La Blanc the lie French pilot his In the St Louis race of 1907 who came down at Kubin KilLin J hungary Monday afternoon The Tue ursa firss news Of handing was I contained In a personal dispatch to he Associated Press tinted dated Ostro I The aeronaut said I landed In I he midst of a large pine tree In Inthe the lie forest of west of Ostro and north or of Warsaw a a 8 Tuesday morning I 1 encountered ered a hean rain My Ir ballast was exhausted when whon I caine down At present I nm ant In the hands of the police hut all is going well wellI I hind had bad weather Sunday nl hl L It was tas cloudy and rain iaia foil fell and I used usell half haJj my ballast before borore The was vas so thick that It Il was im impossible I I possible to locate m my position except fa for I one hour south of Prague Mix lIx made his journey through fog and blinding rainstorms which corn eom 11 all the lie other pilots to lo cc descend After lie Swiss anti and Aus ius Alps Messner on one of the SwIss SWiSH pIlots reported c that lint his clothes were werl covered with Ice to a thick cash caso of half an Inch Messner reached an of feet Ceet Or Of the division or of balloons which wore carrier carried more to the southward LeBlanc reached the farthermost point He descended in the tho foothills of oC the Carpathian mountains being baing forced to lo abandon his balloon on ac account account count of nit an accIdent upon handing V covered a osti Rt at 1015 miles was about aboul the Rame as anti Colonel Colon 1 ck a SwIss entrant covered kilometers 9 The others covered lesser distances r record of l kilometers miles auntie front St Sl Louis LouisIn In 1907 Is Ih die longest Hight made In inan an aD International Count do In n record trip to southern Russia Russin It Is impossible to explain why Mix should have boon been molested tI In by thu th Russian police as In anticIpation of ofa I II a In Russia each of Uw the pilots I was provided at Zurich with n a special h by the tue RussIan minIster 1 to Switzerland Ip 10 protect them against annoyance Th ThA The A embassy at St Petersburg has hiatt been advised of predicament I and asked to take talie the tho matter tip at once with the Russian authorities The Tho from Zurich to lo lh the point where lIx landell has been given Ien as 1100 or mileS mileSE E Edgar gar W V Mix lIb was wat lie tho only Anion can In tho ho International balloon race raco for the Gordon t cup in which seventeen balloons started from Zurich On October 3 sir I r Mix Ux used In this contest conlest the balloon II B built In Paris I la last t year ear for J C McCoy and used h by Mr In the lie race It has hasit hasa it a gas gns capacity of feet the lie maximum allowed for the he race |