FALLS UNLOOSED
THAW AT NIAGARA MORE DAMAGE CAUSED POWER PLANT FLOODED By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright NEW YORK, Jan. 27 Niagara Falls were unloosed by a phenomenal thaw from the ice-jam, 100 ft. high, which had crushed the piers of the 5,000,000 dollar international bridge, the 1000 ft. steel centre span collapsing into the river. Two hundred workers, who were engaged in an unsuccessful battle day and night for 100 hours to disperse the jam by means of dynamite, fled to safety. A 25ft. wall of water flooded out the previously-evacuated Government hydro-electric, plant and caused 500,000 dollars' worth of damage. Great fear is felt that the pressing on of the ico-streain, with the fallen bridge acting as a dam, may impound a bulk of ico-water which may crush the power house on the American side of the falls, also the two bridges downstream and other edifices. In that case the damage would bo impossible to estimate.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22949, 29 January 1938, Page 13
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