CONFLICTING REPORTS
NIAGARA FALLS DAMAGE (0 a.m.) NEW YORK, Sept. 22. Although some officials report that there is no perceptible change in the Niagara Falls cataract, others estimate that about 80,000 tons of rock fell into the riverbed on Friday.
A severe earth shock was registered on a seismograph 21 miles distant, but there is uncertainty whether that was caused by the fall of rock. The disturbance shook buildings throughout the famous Honeymoon district, cracked plaster and provoked a deluge of telephone calls to the police, fire brigade and switchboards. The erosion at the falls is normally five feet a year. An earlier report stated that a huge portion of Niagara Falls, on the American side, collapsed, shaking buildings on both sides of the river with earthquake intensity and changing the contour of the falls from a straight line to a horseshoe shape.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22133, 23 September 1946, Page 5
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