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ST LOUIS GLOBE DEMOCRAT, October 26, 1904.

SCHOOL CHILDREN AIDED AERONAUT TO ALIGHT.

G.S. Brooks, roadmaster of the St Louis Terminal railway, was superintending a force of men employed at work on the St Louis Valley division of the Iron Mountain railway, southeast of East St Louis yesterday afternoon, and saw Knabenshue alight in his airship.  He stated that Knabenshue selected a corn field near the old Cahokia graveyard in which to alight.  As he neared the spot he was sailing along slowly, and dropping a line to the ground, he called to some school children and their teacher, who had been watching him, and was assisted by them in [[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] bringing the ship to the ground.  He landed at 4 oclock [[O clock]].  Neither Knabenshue or the airship was hurt or damaged.  Knabenshue called a farmer who was passing with a wagon, and started at once for St Louis with the airship.

The wagon arrived on Eads Bridge about 6 oclock [[O clock]].  William J Cox, toll collector at the St Louis end of the bridge, stated last night that a man he supposed was Knabenshue and another man brought the gas bag and framework of the airship over the bridge in a light farm wagon.  A large crowd of homeward bound East Siders crossing the bridge, collected about the aeronaut and the wagon carrying the apparatus blocking the way of the vehicle while they inspected the queer looking craft.  A bridge car inspector said last night that Knabenshue drove west on Washington Avenue when he left the bridge, evidentally [[evidently]] with the intention of getting back to the Worlds Fair grounds as soon as possible.  Those who saw the balloon and the framework as it was crossing the bridge say that no breaks in the framework, or rents in the gas bag were visible.