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Show Already upwards of seventy-five men have joined searching parties, that are penetrating Into the mountains in search of the lost balloonlsts. The city council met today and authorized the employment of fifty men, with a guarantee of all required expenses, to start In squads In all directions across the mountaius. A gang of men was at work at noon transporting the balloon "United States" to the base of the mountains, where it will be inflated from a six-inch gas main and towed up the incline railroad to the summit of Mount Lowe to be -used for observation observa-tion purposes. The experiment of towing a balloon with a trolley car six miles over a tortuous mountain rail-way rail-way to the top of a mountain a mile . high, is a new and novel venture and ' may bo found too difficult to accom-: accom-: pllsh. j The wives of two or three of the J men in the lost balloon are prostrated j over the peril of their husbands, and relatives and friends of the men generally gen-erally are giving up hope. The whole i city is astir over the tragic situation I and all manner of plans of rescue are j being suggested. PASADENA ASTIR OVER THE BALLOON TRAGEDY Pasadena. Cal., March 23. Probably never befors has the city of Pasadena been so wrought up over any tragedy as it now is over the loss of the six men in the balloon "America," which ascended from here last Saturday. |