"A Female Aeronaut's Perilous Adventure"
July 4, 1882
The following is a story about Madame Adelle, a balloonist, who was flying her airship, Columbia, which had “passed through a snow-storm in mid air” that was published in The Daily Gazette on July 5, 1882:1
OSWEGO, N.Y., July 4.—Madame Adelle made a balloon ascension from this city this afternoon. She was carried out over Lake Ontario soon after rising. After throwing out everything to keep up, hoping to strike a current that would carry her back over the land, she saw a tug on the lake apparently following her. She then opened the valve and came down in the water about seven miles from land, clinging to the balloon. She was dragged through the water several miles and was finally picked up in a very exhausted condition by the tug C.P. Morey, which was on the lake with an excursion party about 17 miles west of the city. She was in the water nearly and hour.2
Watertown Republican, Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. Of Congress, July 19, 1882, https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85033295/1882-07-19/ed-1/seq-3/.
“A Female Aeronaut’s Perilous Adventure,” Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. Of Congress, July 5, 1882, https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82014805/1882-07-05/ed-1/seq-1/.