A BALOON ON FIRE.
TWO MEN KILLED
{Per Press Association. —Copi/ri'/ht.)
Beiu-in, June 13. A sensational accident occurred here. An aronaut named Woelpert and his assistant were testing an ferial machine when, at a height of 3000 ft. above the city, the baloon caught fire, and the car in which they were feil, travelling through the air enshrouded in flames. Both jcronauts ere killed and their bodies terriblv burned.
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Hastings Standard, Issue 347, 14 June 1897, Page 3
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69A BALOON ON FIRE. Hastings Standard, Issue 347, 14 June 1897, Page 3
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