Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1911-10-08 | Page 1 | Race is Won by German Balloon

RACE IS WON VON BY I BALLOON Berlin II Lands in Wisconsin Wilderness After Tr Traveling One Hundred Miles Farther Than Any Competitor TAKES BENNETT CUP AWAY FROM AMERICA Alarm Caused by Delay Lelay in Hearing From the Victorious Victorious' Aeronaut Aeronaut No No R Records cords Es Established Established Established Es- Es in the Flights RUN INTO SEVERE STORM Uy fly Press CITY CUI Oct 8 Tue rhe The balloon K KANSAS S Berlin II carrying the lime fin tint flag of ot hn has brut on the time International balloon raCe for the has James Jamr Gordun Gor Gee dun don Bennett cup c The he Berlin II landed In tb the wilderness near VI VIs at nt 7 7 o'clock Saturday morning thereby traveling mile farther larther than thau its ItH competitor In the thc race The Flie following ln meNNa message c was WOl received here liere after midnight t s AVIs is Wilderness Landing twelve t mile K south Houth seven cn northeast Saturday morning at seven Signed SI nc HANS II 11 The delay delaT In hearing from the ller un II led to the belief that UN its occupant occupants pants pant had hael been lost hint In the Great Grant lakes region and the time l cSt City Aero ero club had telegraphed h to Adjutant General In of or the tho United States StateN nry a asking government aid In locating the lost balloon In winning winning- this years year's race raceS Germany has taken talen awa away the Bennett trophy from America into whose possession it would have havo permanently fallen aJlen had this country countr been victorious this year S is twenty miles northeast of ot Chippewa Falls in tho the h heart alt of the wooded district of or Wisconsin Tho The Buckeye Americas America's tive In the rae race and the Berlin BerUn Irs JI's nearest rival landed miles nilles from Kansas City at LaCrosse L Wis Vis The Berlin II has beaten the Buckeyes Buckeye's mark by approximately miles All AlJ encountered Storms All AU of ot tho the eight other balloons that l lift Ift t here have land landed All encountered encountered encountered ered the storm and several had bat narrow escapes or severe Injury Not Kot a word has lias been heard from the Berlin II since It loft left tho the aviation field The craft cratt sailed due north along the general path followed by the other bal bal- loons Provisions enough to last three days das were ere carried carded b by the occupants of ot oft t th 11 i. n m Yr tT J g A I c. c 1 A ll I. i. i 1 niu u n nuns II U J uti c VV J. J O. O Dunker aide Gerl ke Is an experienced experienced ex ex- parlance balloonist but Dunker Dunk r Is an amateur It If the balloonists are arc not in a lake JaIce they have havo flown lown into Canada It Is be bo- bo Tho The Canadian government g ma may be asked to assist in the Uio search One reason for tor the belief that the Berlin II is in the lake Jak region is that the occupants of ot tho Condor tho the French balloon which landed last night near Mingo la Ia reported tocla today that the they had been carried out over Lake Lale Michigan l and then driven back to land lond Neither of the tho balloonists can speak more than a n few words of ot English Ens which ma may add to their difficulties should the they land in a remote district The Million Population Club which escaped from Pilot Berry nero after a n landing landing land and andIn In ing at Mason City la Ia last night was found late lato today in a swamp two miles east of Chillicothe Ill according toa toa to a dispatch from flom the thc finder to the time thes Associated As As- s Sedated Press tonight of The bags baga in time the international race have landed as follows II Condor lIngo Mingo la in 2 10 miles America II It II Emmett burg Ia la 90 m mIles miles les Million Mil 11 lion m club Mason City la Ia miles nilles Berlin I 1 Austin Minn lInn 3 3 15 5 miles Buckeye Sparta Wig 15 miles Tho The Lahm cup record was not ap ap- ap- ap The distances traveled tra b by bythe bythe the two balloons which entered solely In an effort efort to lift the Lahm cup follo follow follow fol fol- fol- fol low lo Topeka II 11 II Dunnell Minim Minn miles Kansas ansas City II II Kennan Wis miles The little Ittle pilot balloon Pennsylvania anla failed tailed to establish an altitude record a a. a as It attempted to do It landed near Buffalo Center la Ta a distance of or miles a 1 1