Show The Fatal Flight of a Bnllooi I MONMOUTH September 181he spectacle of an enormous balloon swaying above the I city a few hundred feet drew the people from I their stores and houses this afternoon till the streets were crowded The excitement became intense when shortly tho air ship swooped down and impaled itself on the spire of the Catholic Church near the public pub-lic square The balloon at once collapsed and a hundred citizens helped to drag the concern to the ground The basket was empty barring a torn shirt sleeve cuff and some branches of oak indicating a collision col-lision with tree tops somewhere and the possible death of an aeronaut All efforts to discover whence the balloon came and tho name and fate of its occupants have so far I been unavailing |