Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 100, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1909 — MONON HOME COMING HAS A SAD BEGINNING. [ARTICLE]

MONON HOME COMING HAS A SAD BEGINNING.

Henry Moore, Who Was Assisting Aeronaut, Caught In Hopes of Balloon and Killed. The Stpnon hpme coming had a frightful accident the opening day that resulted to the death of Henry Moore, a respected laboring man, who was assisting the aeronaut in inflating his balloon. Moore was working inside of the balloon, keeping it from catching fire, and the balloon broke loose from the crowd of men and boys who were holding it and Moore was caught in the coils of the rope and carried into the air. Spectators estimate that he was about 15 feet above the telegraph wires when he was released by the uncoiled ropes and precipitated to the ground, striking on his head, breaking his neck and producing instant death. Moore was about 54 years of age, and leaves a wife and four children, Two of the daughters are married, and one girl and one boy reside at home. He was the father-in-law of Jamie Willis, of Rensselaer, by the latter’a, first marriage. The sad occurrence threw a damper on the otherwise auspicious opening day of the home coming.