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At the height of 5, 000 feet he gave the signal to the aeronaut, Simmons, who was obliged to allow a large escape of gas proportionate to the inventor's weight. On this occasion, however, both balloon and flying machine came down together, and it was not until the Qth of July that he actually severed the rope at a height of 3, 000 feet in order to descend alone to earth. In vain did the inventor strive to work his wings ; he and the machine fell swiftly and vertically, and in another moment str...uck the pavement of Robert Street, Chelsea, with a sickening thud. De Groof was a dead man before he had a chance properly to try his handiwork. Not only this, but the ascent was doubly unfortunate, Simmons the aeronaut having a narrow escape from death. For when de Groof detached his apparatus, the balloon, suddenly lightened, rose with such fearful rapidity that Simmons lost consciousness. When he regained it, he was in full descent. Just beneath him lay a railway ; as he fell on the line his eye caught a train running upon him at full steam.
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