Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1909 — BALLOONISTS DROP SHOES [ARTICLE]

BALLOONISTS DROP SHOES

Air Craft Begins to Sink on Striking Cold Current. Indianapolis, May 18.—L. G. Bumbaugh, Dr. Goethe Link and J. R. Irvin, who ascended in the Columbia, a balloon owned by C. A. Coey of Chicago, were compelled to drop coats, hats, shoes and cut off 200 feet of the drag rope when the balloon entered a cold current and began to fall rapidly. The balloon descended without mishap. Link and Irvin were qualifying as pilots for the national balloon races here tfn June 5.