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Semi Weekly Herald
Durango, La Plata County, Colorado
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Allan R. Hawley and Augustus Post completed a record-breaking 1,355-mile balloon flight from St. Louis, landing safely on a mountain 58 miles north of Chicoutimi, Quebec, on Oct. 19 after 46 hours in the air during the international James Gordon Bennett cup race.
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Adverse weather compelled a landing or their flight might have been much greater. As it was, they smashed all records for distance, their landing place being 1,355 miles from St. Louis. Since landing they have been struggling to reach a settlement through an almost unknown region, finally succeeding foot sore and weary, but happy, last evening.
Their record is: Start, St. Louis Oct. 17; balloon, America II; crew, Allan R. Hawley and Augustus Post; distance traveled, 1,355 miles; flew in all about 1,000 miles; time in air, forty-six hours; landed 4 p. m. Oct. 19; average speed, thirty-five miles an hour; landed on a mountain (unnamed) fifty-eight miles north of Chicoutimi, Quebec.
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Fifty Eight Miles North Of Chicoutimi, Quebec
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Oct. 17 To Oct. 19
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landed safely; smashed all records for distance (1,355 miles); reached settlement foot sore and weary but happy.
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Allan R. Hawley and Augustus Post started from St. Louis Oct. 17 in the balloon America II for the international distance race for the James Gordon Bennett cup. Adverse weather compelled a landing on Oct. 19 on an unnamed mountain fifty-eight miles north of Chicoutimi, Quebec, after 46 hours in the air at an average speed of 35 miles per hour, covering 1,355 miles.