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ST. LOUIS REPUBLIC,
Oct. 26, 1904.

THOUSANDS WATCH FLIGHT OF CRAFT OVER ST LOUIS.

AERONAUT KNABENSHUE DESCRIBES HIS [[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[strikethrough]] JOURNEY FROM THE EXPOSITION AND ACROSS THE RIVER - HIS FEARS AND SENSATIONS - CONTROLS COURSE OF VESSEL UNTIL GASOLINE ENGINE BREAKS DOWN.

DIRIGIBILITY OF BALDWINS SHIP SHOWN.

Against a stiff wind blowing from the northwest, "The California Arrow," the airship of Captain T.S. Baldwin of San Francisco, made a flight over the Worlds Fair grounds and into Illinois yesterday afternoon.

The start was made at 1:52 p.m. from the center of the Aeronautic Concourse.  The ship Landed at 3:23 p.m. at Valley Junction, near East St Louis.  At 9 O clock last night A. [[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] of Knabenshue Toledo, who operated the airship in its flight, returned with the vessel to the Worlds Fair grounds.

Both vessel and operator were safe and uninjured.  The ascent was made in the presence of hundreds of spectators in the concourse, and its flight through the grounds brought all visitors to a standstill, while they craned their necks upward to watch its progress through the air.

Over the spires and housetops of the city the flying monster sailed, while the city's thousands poured out of doors to watch the unaccustomed sight of an airship coursing through the air.

On the roofs of the tall sky-scrapers downtown hundreds of hundreds of merchants, clerks, salesmen and office inhabitants stood watching the strange cigar-shaped craft with its frail outline of framework and its operator, a tiny speck, as it raced through the sky to the east.