CASUALTIES AT NIAGARA.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 287, 7 November 1883, Page 2

CASUALTIES AT NIAGARA.

The melancholy death of Captain Tebb.has led to the publications one f the \New York jourqals'of^a 1 ''ifiobrdL f the most memorable iripideptV' and isaßterg connected wifclj the' 'iSiag'ara 'alls. A lady stbidiel : to n jftickj a pvrer on the brink "oV Table Kock, and pd was Ukeu np de^d from the roJcEs 3 ilow. Another lady stooped for s a cup of WBter;lost her balance, and waif" out of reach and ever the Falls almofci before 5 ter VoiaaeH -hnsband fcriew what had happened.- In 18?5 a wp/iad ani rfq6lieh:accidenfooiqc.nrfed, i Anrenga'gei couple wbelfi beßinditJie Falls, into the ; cave of the Winds, without a guide. JThe " lady actaally sought bathe m « pool . which, even the guides mayer visfited. -Her, lover, lost his life, m .endeavouring to so-ve her. 3 . One 4 very pathetic (and dramatis ..incident- ii : recorded. A young (man) canght up a , charmine chid, who. wag watching the , tuntblingj -waves. " Kow, JLizzie," he. plav^olly" -said/ "Lam going to ;throw you into the water," and he swung her backwards and brwards;h Theichild sci^amr ed, stru^led^ Bn,d:elipped{ tfcomj his arms. He gazed after her, and,,realising what he had done,: leaped; into* the torrent.' • ReßCuei > ol coursei wa^: hopeless, an^l i the .-i perished. ; ißemarkable escapes have now and again beenj rew~ 'cotrdeii' One; was that: of a 'murcterer* The sherirT was close -behind £himj the' liver m tront, and only the wire^.of the olS.bpiage .'at 1 Lewiston to helpihmr ■acroi(j. r Hf^nd-over hand fee began the 1 ■'-:■•■ J--o'i ,0f <•;: ..yd -'-*■■■»

passage.^ His hands quickly b'isterefy and then they bled. Agaia and again be rested his arms by Laa«in» by hs legs. : At length he reached (ha opposite bank, aud lay panting fully au Jiour before he continued his flight. On one occasion a painter was at work ou Sesond Sifters Tslana*, when he fell inlo the water He was carried towards tha Falls, and vrhen only forty feet fram thern, caught on a rock. After a tima of terrible anxiety; he was sared by ropes manipohted from the sbore. A boatmaa was being hurried along towards the^apids, when^e..thre»-ont a httle anchor be had with him. It seemed hke plW^- bia m nith g^im-death.-as^he^eMd-^thWiochor PWyp^fiontinually; to.iqoki withputgroundin^ rAtle^g^higkar. fpl anxiety was relieved tyjs c * to h. iag a grip, but night tlSugh the held the anchor-ro 4^^ l^vtnetf WUiam dawned he Wa^sated bj those O a