Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 September 1901 — How Santos-Dumont Escaped Death [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

How Santos-Dumont Escaped Death

The illustration printed herewith, sketched by a Paris artist, shows how the intrepid Brazilian aeronaut, M. Santos-Dumont, escaped from death by his airship, “Santos-Dumont V.,” being caught between two houses at Passy in falling. M. Santos-Dumont was trying to win with the airship of his own invention the Deutsch prize of $20,000. He had suc.eeded in rounding the Eiffel tower with difficulty, but his balloon was then unable to make headway against the strong wind which was blowing, and it fell on one of the new houses near the Trocadc-ro and close to the Seine. Luckily the frame of the car caught in one of the walls, where it remained suspended. But for this, M. Santos-Dumont would probably have been killed. As it was, he was in a most dangerous posit on for over half an hour, hanging in midair In the small wicker basket which forms the car. Here he clung until rescued by some workmen, who climbed over the roofs of the adjoining houses and let down the guide rope, which had fallen on the roof of the building struck by the balloon. Santos-Dumont fastened the rope about his body and was, with some difficulty, hauled w up to a place of safety by the workmen.

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