Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1909 — Boy Has Miraculous Escape From Death In Balloon Bide. [ARTICLE]

Boy Has Miraculous Escape From Death In Balloon Bide.

Quinter Neff, 12 years of age, of Syracuse, Ind., escaped death very miraculously Wednesday afternoon. He was watching the inflation of a balloon, and when it began to ascend the ropes wound about the boy’s feet much after the fashion that Henry Moore, the' Monon man, was caught aiid killed Tiiesday. The boj r , however, was so firmly fastened in the ropes that he did not fall, but clung to the ropes. The aeronaut, seeing the predicament in which the boy was in, cut loose his parachute soon after the balloon left the ground and expected the balloon to fall. It continued its flight, however, until it is estimated the boy was 3,000 feet in the air. His parents were witnesses of the ascension and were stricken with horror as they saw their son carried higher and higher, each moment expecting to see him loosened from the ropes and dashed to death. Finally the gas in the balloon cooled and it began to descend, but it did not turn over for sonfe time and the boy landed safely in a clover field, having received only a few scratches.