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Show AERONAUT j ESCAPES Balloon Hits Pinnacle of Mr. Wilson and Lands Him on Rocks Los Angeles, Jan 28 Tom Mc-Lain Mc-Lain an aeronaut, escaped death miraculously w hen his halloon bit the pinnacle of Mount Wilson. 5,000 feet up, and sent him sprawling on the rocks Just below the cre6t of the i mountain The storv of his experience experi-ence became known today. McLain was assisting in taking panoramic photographs from a cap- i the balloon The- leash slipped and tin baloon leaped upward with "vie Lain dangling in the web The bag -truck the side of Mount Wilson, twenty feet below its crest, the impact im-pact extricating McLain from the ropes that entangled him The balloon bal-loon continued to soar and has not yet been found. |