BALLOON TRAGEDY
SCIENTISTS PROBABLY ASPHYXIATED Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. MOSCOW, May 19. It has been revealed that the two balloonists Schrenck and Masuck, who were killed, must have been asphyxiated through failure of the oxygen apparatus two hours after the start of the flight. The balloon drifted with the dead men for twenty hours across Europe. When it was low Schrenck’s body fell out of the gondola and. was dragged across the country for miles until it became entangled in the wood in which Masuck’s body was found.
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Evening Star, Issue 21725, 21 May 1934, Page 12
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88BALLOON TRAGEDY Evening Star, Issue 21725, 21 May 1934, Page 12
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