AMERICAN ITEMS. TWO MEN GO OVER NIAGARA FALLS. I

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXIV, Issue 3510, 15 October 1868, Page 4

AMERICAN ITEMS. TWO MEN GO OVER NIAGARA FALLS. I

The Buffalo Courier of July 16th says ;— "One of the Courier reporters learned at Navy Island a few particulars of the loss of two men, over Niagara Fallp on,Suuday evening. They were in the employ of a farmer namod Packard, who l.yes on what is known as the .^ecoud Concession, on the American »ide,sonie five miles from the cataract. Both were young men, under 25 years of age, but our informant ,didi nqt know , their nam-'s. On Sunday ,they| procured » small boat, and went over to Navy Island, where they spent several hours. They t were hot, ,howevfr, au lait in the mauageuient of ' a bo^r, especially in the dangerous current. As th«y did not rejturn home on Sunday, evening, inquiry „wajs made, and, their absence being continued, it was surmised ihtt they had been swept over tbe Fallii. On I u«>B<lay aft'-ruoori, fragments of their bt>at wer,e found below the cataract, so there cun be no.douht ajs to their terrible f.ata. It is thought tjhey Qiu.st have broken au oar or a rowlock, and their t-kill was not sufficient-, in their ciippled condniOD, to keep out <jf the rapids. It is terrible to think of them making that terrible plunge iv the ni^bt, with none to hear their cries." '

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