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Identifier: theatricalcircus00je (find matches)
Title: Theatrical and circus life;
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Jennings, John Joseph, 1853-1909. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Theater Circus
Publisher: Chicago, Laird & Lee
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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A lady balloonist met with a terrible death at
Cuantla, Mexico, some time ago. A great crowd as-
sembled to witness the balloon ascension of Senorita
Catalina Georgio, a beautiful girl only seventeen years
old. There was no car attached to the balloon, only
the trapeze on which the girl performed. The balloon

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shot up amid the deafening cheers of the crowd which
was present. Catalina, meanwhile, was seen clinging
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CATALINA GEORGIO'S FRIGHTFUL DEATH.

to the trapeze and performing daring feats of agility.
When the balloon was three-quarters of a mile high it

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suddenly exploded and fell to the ground with the un-
fortunate girl. Her dead body was found horribly
crushed and mangled beside the wrecked balloon.
The remains were tenderly cared for by the natives.
A frightful balloon accident occurred lately at Cour-
bevoie, near Paris. A large crowd had assembled to
witness the novel and perilous ascent of a gymnast
called August Navarre, who had volunteered to per-
form a number of athletic feats on a trapeze suspended
from a Montgolfier balloon named the Vidouvillaise.
Rejecting the advice of bystanders, Navarre refused
to allow himself to be tied to the trapeze. There was
no car attached to the balloon. At about five o-clock the
Vidouvillaise was let loose from its moorings and rose
majestically in the air. Navarre, hanging on to the
trapeze, appeared quite confident, and repeatedly sa-
luted the spectators

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Information is just received here from Cuautla, Mexico, of an extraordinary and terrible accident that occurred, there on Saturday. It had been widely advertised that a balloon ascension would be made there on that day (..). The aeronaut was Senorita Catalina Gongora, a beautiful young maiden only senventeen years of age (...). The balloon, which was inflated with hot air, and was not expected to make long flights, had no car attached, but in place of it carried a trapeze. (...) The balloon had reached an elevation of fully three-quarters of a mile (...) when suddenly (...) the collapsed balloon, with its fair young navigator, was seen to fall swiftly as a meteor to the earth. [The remains of the dead girl] were buried in the cemetery near the town. It was afterward discovered that the balloon was of alltogether too frail construction for the risk of human life, as the material of which it was made was flimsy and easy rent asunder. Belle Plaine News, Saturday, February 4, 1882
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  • bookid:theatricalcircus00je
  • bookyear:1893
  • bookdecade:1890
  • bookcentury:1800
  • bookauthor:Jennings__John_Joseph__1853_1909___from_old_catalog_
  • booksubject:Theater
  • booksubject:Circus
  • bookpublisher:Chicago__Laird___Lee
  • bookcontributor:The_Library_of_Congress
  • booksponsor:The_Library_of_Congress
  • bookleafnumber:535
  • bookcollection:library_of_congress
  • bookcollection:americana
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