Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 October 1900 — Fatal Fall of an Aeronant. [ARTICLE]

Fatal Fall of an Aeronant.

Gays Mills. Mis.. Oct. It—A. P. Deer, an aeronaut of Chicago, fell to hi* death’ from n. balloon iwhfeh had! a see ruled to a height of Iffib feet. The ascension was made at a fair nnd was witnessed by o.ltwi [icrsons. The bnb loon exploded and fell H>(> feet before the parachute opem*d and the sudden Jerk mused Peer to lose Ids hold. Ill* body fell, turning In the air, and he struck, tlie ground ou bis Lead and shoulders.