A BALLOON ACCIDENT.
THE RESULT £>F A FOOLISH GAME. A MAN KILLED. Received September 2, 9.49 p.m. LONDON, September 2. Spectators, in playing with a captive war balloon at Leatherhead (Surrey), r&leased it.- A man who was clinging to.a rope was carried one hundred ■ feet, when he dropped and was killed. Three people who were inside the' car pulled the valve rope and descended in safety.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXXVII, Issue 11727, 3 September 1902, Page 5
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66A BALLOON ACCIDENT. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXXVII, Issue 11727, 3 September 1902, Page 5
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