Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 June 1911 — PARACHUTE LEAPER HURT [ARTICLE]

PARACHUTE LEAPER HURT

Strikes Tree and Falls From Trapeze as Balloon Ascends. Marion, Ind., May 31. —Frank Crawford, twenty-eight years old, of Anderson, an aeronauL Who, for two seasons, has been making balloon ascensions and parachute leaps at Goldwaite park, suffered serious injury last evening, when scraped from the trapeze of his balloon by a tree just as he was beginning an ascension from the park. He fell about sixty feet, alighting on his hands and knees and the left side of his face. In making an ascension at Goldthwaite park Sunday afternoon the balloon overturned soon after Crawford had cut loose the parachute, and the gas bag, traevling faster downward than the opened parachute, shot past the latter, missing Crawford by a few feet. Before he started yesterday he expressed fear of an accident.