FIGHT FOR LIFE AT NIAGARA
i BARREL VOYAGER'S ESCAPE i Thousands ol horror-stricken spectators watched the light for life by (hire-devil "Red" Ill’ll, the veteran riverman. who was attempting his third trip through the .rapids and whirlpool ol the lower Niagara River. I confined in the remodelled barrel in | which the f I reek, (I. .StalhakK, j plunged In bis death over the Imresshoe ('alls last year. The barrel made a brealb-takiug rush through the tumbling rapids, but as it reached the calmer waters ifcVas sucked into the giant circular whirlpool at the end of too lower rapids, and was held fast in the current, where it gyrated rapidly for two hours, gradually sinking. j\len hanging perilously from ibe cliff edge heard I fill shout (hat the barrel was almost full ol water, that be was nimbi" lo keep afloat much ; longer, and was uninjured, but weak and dizzv.
Eimdly. a man in an aeroplane reported on landing tbal he had seen I fill's ~sen Mvin. out lo ibe barrel with a rope round Ids wa.st. lie was then pulled ashore with the barrel, 11 id was lantly bruised, but bad bad a marvellous escape.
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Evening Star, Issue 20853, 24 July 1931, Page 2
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195FIGHT FOR LIFE AT NIAGARA Evening Star, Issue 20853, 24 July 1931, Page 2
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