Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1909 — MANY AIR RACERS DESCEND [ARTICLE]

MANY AIR RACERS DESCEND

French and Belgian Balloons Out of Bennett Cup Event. Zurich, Switzerland, Oct. s.—Several of the balloons which started in the international race for the Gordon Bennett cup have come to earth. Emile Duborest, one of the French pilots, made a landing between Neudorf and Reichenbach, Silesia. Leon De Brockere, a Belgian representative, descended safely at the foot of the Carpathian mountains. » . The following dispatch from Edgar W. Mix was dropped from the balloon America while passing over Bohemia: “Raining continually for two hours; we are voyaging northeast; have used sixteen bags of ballast.”