St. Louis Post-Dispatch
April 13, 1897

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Mr. McCann tells the following story. according Yo the Times- Herald: “I saw a strange looking object in the sky coming from the south. It looked like a big cigar. It came nearer, and I saw at a glance that it was not a balloon. I real- ized it was the much talked of air ship. My boy’s camera was in the store. I ran and ne bh, got it as the thing approached. The sky was clear. Conditions favored a good pho- 77 iy! =. — ——- - —— ‘> — — oO ie ————— iN —_—— ’ « i — - ee ws —_S:. tograph. A plate was ready. I ran to Greenleaf avenue and Market street and got a good shot at it. With G. A. Over- ocker, whose attention was attracted to it, I ran down the Northwestern tracks and we got a second picture a few minutes later. “E. L. Osborne and William Hoodless also saw the air ship. I am no longer a skeptic. I distinctly saw the outlines of a man in the rear of the machine. He pulled a revolving rudder or some sort of contrivance which steered the course of the air ship. This strange invention came within 600 feet of the earth as near as I could estimate it. ‘The lower portion of the air ship was thin, and made of some light white metal like aluminum, The upper portion was dark and long like a big cigar, pointed in front and with scme kind of arrangement in the rear to which cables are attached. The pilot " A, ’ Age ‘ a) Was =. _~ The Air Ship As Photographed in Chicago. —From the Chicago Times-Herald. pulled these and steered the course from south to northwest. We watched the flight of the air ship until it went east and disap- peared from view. I returned to the etore with the plates, attended to my morning papers, and, with Overocker, finished proofs as soon as possible.”’ “I saw him take the first picture,” said G. A. Overocker, “and assisted him with the second. My attention was attracted to ‘his excited conduct in Greenleaf avénue at such an early hour, looking at the sky. I looked and got excited, too. ‘It's the air ship,’ said he. Then I assisted in getting a second picture of it, and it’s all there, too.” E. L. Osborne and William Hoodless cor- roborate the story. They say they saw it, but didn’t have their cameras with them. Their description tallies with the photo- graphs taken, JUMPED FROM AN UPPER WINDOW. CRAZY PATIENT LEAPS FROM BAPTIST HOSPITAL, —_———_— NEGLECTED BY THE NURSES. He Landed on the Stone Steps, but Es- | caped With a Pair of Broken Arms, - ——« W. Quinley, an insane patient from the interior of the State, was brought to the St. Louis Protestant Hospital Monday morning. He is subject to periodical fits of violence. A spell came on him Sunday, and hig family had him removed to the city. He was placed in a room on the third floor." He was violent all day and had to be watched continually. During the afternoon he, quieted down. The room in which the patient was con- fined was in the attic. The ceiling is low, the atmosphere close. The struggles of the muse with his patient heated him up and he opened the window. After a while the nurse his patient. A few moments later there was a scream from across the street, followed by groans from the front entrance. Doctors and nurses rushed out and found Quinley lying like dead on the front steps, He was bleeding from cuts about his head and faee. When carried into the operating room ‘t was found that both his arms were broken, his right arm being badly fractured in three places. He also suffered severe in- ternal injuries and is badly contused about the head and face. His injuries are serious, but the doctors think they will pull him through. Neighbors say that about 4 o'clock Mon- fay afternoon they saw Quinley crawl from the east dormer window on the third floor of the hospital, once the old Nied- ringhaus mansion. He stood erect in the low window frame and jumped out toward the street. Had he fallen directly he would have landed in the grass pilot, but he jumped sideways’ and landed with terrific force on the front steps. Spectators thought that he was killed. It was several] minutes before the hospital at- tefidants realized what had happened. At the hospital Tuesday no information was obtainable. The suepreintendent gave instructions not to reveal the unfortunate patient's name. Neither would the doctors explain how an insane patient was ieft alone in a room by an open window. -—— left Jackson Wants a Divorce. Suit for divorce was filed in the Circuit Court Tuesday by J. J. Jackeon against Emma E. Jackson, ng desertion. The couple Were, MT Gu Bepvent at & dneree ~ their place of abode, ment over REY. DR. BROOKES SERIOUSLY ILL. STRICKEN AT THE CLOSE OF HIS SUNDAY EVENING SERMON. HIS LIFE WAS DESPAIRED OF. For a Time He-Was Unconscious, but He Has Now Reyived and Will Probably Recover. ee Rev. Dr. J. H. Brookes, pastor emeritus of the Washington Avenue Presbyterian Church, is seriously ill at hig home, 4429 West Pine boulevard. He was seized with acute congestion of the kidneys, attended with uraemia, Sunday evening and became unconscious. His fe was almost despaired of Monday, but Sunday morning he was so much improved that the chances for his recovery are excellent. Dr. Brookes has not been well for two years, in consequence of an attack of the grip. After New Years he went South in the. hope of regaining his strength and re- turned but recently. He felt well enough to fill the pulpit of his church a wa a Sunday and last Sunday he tried it again. His strength, however, was not equal to the task. He was taken ill immediately after the second service and was hurried to his home, where he became unconscfous. His life-long friend and physician, Dr. E. 8s. Lemoine of 1622 Washington avenue, was summoned hastily, and was great'y alarmed _posed of Populists and Republicans, at the patient's condition. The worst was feared, until Tuesday, when Dr. Brookes recovered consciousness. Dr. Lemoine will not say now that he is out of danger. Dr. Brookes is one of the oldest pastors in St. Louis and a man.of great prominence in the religious world. He was pastor of the Washington avenue church trom 1864 to 1895, when he was made pastor emeritus. Prior to his connection with the church he was pastor of the Second Presbyterian his labors having commenced there in 1858. HE COULDN’T STAND IT.. Suicide of a Populist Because He Voted for a Negro. Special to the Post-Dispatch. RALEIGH, N. C., April 13.—Perrin Gower, one of the wealthiest farmers in this re- gion, committed suicide. He was a Confed- erate soldier, and until the last campaign a strong, intolerant Democrat. He became a Populist last fall and voted a ticket com- in- cluding a negro candidate for the Peutie. ture. Afterwards Gower brooded over hav- ing voted for the negro, and his mind be- came unbalanced. DEED TO ARGENTINE. Covers a Million Dollars, Title Coming From an Indian. KANSAS CITY, Mo., April 13.—-A deed was placed on file in Kansas City, Kan., to-day, conveying to William J. Isaac, of this city, nearly one-half of the City of Ar- gentine, Kan., a manufacturing suburb. The deed is made by the heirs of the chil- dren of Nancy Whitefeather, a Shawnee In. dian, who died many years ago and who was the patentee of the land. Over one mil- lion dollars worth of property is involved. The deed was recently approved by the Sec- retary of the Interior. —_—_—— -+ —--_ after noon field in St. Louis. long been the greatest news-gathering agency tled to receive its news service. paper will therefore be more ap practically impossible to make a genuine newspaper without this service, and the POST-DISPATCH has it exclusive for the j WITHOUT A NEWS RIVAL. It stopped business The Associated Press has in the world, and it is now without a competitor in the United States. Nearly all the leading newspapers of the United States and Canada are now members of the Associated Press, and com- petition with it in the news- gathering business is hopeless. _ The POST-DISPATCH fs the only afternoon newspaper in St. Louis that is a member of the Associated Press and enti- \ superiority as a news- arent than ever. It is Thousands of St. Louisans Ex- cited Over the Aerial Visitor. SEARCHLIGHT FLASHED TOWARD THE EARTH FOR AN HOUR MONDAY NIGHT. Noise of Machinery Heard and Outlines of the Craft Visible. TESTIMONY OF MANY CITIZENS REGARDING THE MYSTE- RIOUS VISITOR. ——_—_-_-_ University Professors Confess They Are Puzzled by the Appearance. Outpouring of Men, Women and Chil- dren Expected Tuesday Night, When the Heavens Will Be . * Watched From Points of Vantage. ~ The airship has arrived at St. Louis and is supposed to be anchored or drifting some- where above the clouds in this vicinity. This statement is vouched for by thou- sands who saw the mysterious visitor Mon- day evening. os ye . ~ Tf not an airship; what is it? Everybody asks and there is no answer. At 7:30 @ clock Monday evening persons looking in a northwest direction saw a pe- cullar-shaped object push through the clouds at an elevation of about % degrees. From the point or bow of this object eman- ated a strong light that greatly resembled a powerful electric searchlight. Thies wave of brilllancy swayed back and forth; it was as if aerial navigators were sweeping the earth’s surface with the rays much as men-of-war throw the revolving lights from on board ships to every point of the compass In order to sight any torpedo boats that might be lurking in their vicinity. This light shone forth for fully ten min- utes, then\suddenly disappeared as if an electric current had been turned off. It was not an obseuration by clouds. Many of those who witnessed the phenomenon—for the nonce no better word can be used— aver they saw the shadowy form of what appeared to be a peculiarly shaped ship. One man described it as resembling 4a, whaleback; others sald it was more per- fectly cigar-shaped. The above description if given after con- versation with scores of men who witnessed the strange sight. Manager Weaver entertained a party on the roof of the Planters’. Most of them were commercial travelers. pereva dh at once ca ve eoheme, u ag it 7ae Sone ee them. ey recalled the talk of a year ago, when &@ prominent manufacturer tried to throw the names of his gaods by a powerful stereop- ticon on the clouds. se Pianters’ Hotel obesevers og Se light came from above and not from below. cal forecast e Cio belek Mant while roe Looking at it with his practical eye he so- logaiaet “It is Venus; that is the t i euioy aise when Mr. Frankenfiel4 opened his books and ascertained the exact position of Venus he admitted he might ave been mistaken. “Tt is no joking matter,” said he to @ “Science hag tak The light was building and from the Union Trust; it seen by. thousands who gathered in groupe on street corners. . negroes are much excited by the strange aerial apparition. They say it tends dire disaster and hundreds of them could be heard discussing the strange visie tor as they gathered on lower Morgan street a. | nig 2. The bright light which firat aroused at- tention was seen at 7:30 o'cl observed for 0 minutes. r ppeared, but was further - the earth. Passen on a ee Railway car had a « view at ur just before the car reached the “es The conductor, P, t ward the north. a, THE WEATHER It resembled a street car Sa IN 8ST. {OxB CBrt. + ee | F ag ~~