{"id":40,"date":"2013-11-16T23:01:06","date_gmt":"2013-11-16T23:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/?p=40"},"modified":"2013-11-17T20:30:21","modified_gmt":"2013-11-17T20:30:21","slug":"a-thrilling-scene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/?p=40","title":{"rendered":"A Thrilling Scene"},"content":{"rendered":"

Steele Scrapbook<\/span><\/a>\u00a0– June 19, 1885<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\nA THRILLING SCENE.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

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AN AERONAUT FALLS FROM A BURNING BALLOON AND IS CRUSHED TO DEATH.<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

CHARLESTON, W. Va., June 19.\u2014Among the other attractions at the circus here to-day was a balloon ascension, and just as the ropes holding the balloon cast off a hot air stove used in inflating the balloon was overturned, causing it to catch fire. The burning balloon shot up into the air at a very rapid rate with William Patterson, an aeronaut, in the basket. When a short distance up the crowd yelled “jump,” but he did not heed the advice, and after going several hundred feet up the balloon collapsed and Patterson fell to the earth a lifeless mass of humanity. It was his first ascension. The balloon was totally consumed by fire.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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