Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1858 — THE AERONAUT GOES TO SLEEP IN A CORN FIELD. [ARTICLE]

THE AERONAUT GOES TO SLEEP IN A CORN FIELD.

The balloon struck the ground about 500 yards from the lake, and dragged to within_ 300 yards of the water before the anchor took a firm hold. The landing place was about half a mile from Sandusky City, in a corn-field, on the farm of Mr. A. G. Townsend. Prof. Steiner called loudly for assistance. but failing to arouse anybody, he evaporated his balloon, and gathering a shock or two of corn-stalks, he wrapped himself in his blanket and overcoat, and lav down by his “Pride of the West” and slep't until daylight. After enjoying a refreshing sleep, Prof. Steiner proceeded to the farm-house, and aroused the inmates, was carried bv Mr. Townsend to Sandusky, where he shipped his balloon by express to this city, and himself took the morning tr>in. All tin's time from six o’clock, Mr. Steiner had no knowledge of-his competitorHn the race, but. on arriving at a station on the railroad, Some fifteen or twenty miles from Sandusky, Mons. Godard came on board with his monster “Leviathan.” He had landed near Hunt’s Corners, some eighteen miles this side of Sandusky.