Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1853-09-01


bic him to do that. A few weeks AGO We
with number of others, threw heavy
tree at least sixty feet long, into the rapids
at thus very point; and, after having been
madly torn along by the angry waters to the
very brink OF the cataract, it was grand
sight to behold the tree stand erect with
lis branches in the air, aud its roots in the
water, as If growing out of the invisible
rock below. Thus for an instance it SEEM
ed to stand and then it gracefully descend
ed for a few feet but before pettinr half
way TO the bottom, it was literally crushed
to atoms. few minutes Afterwards we
saw portions OF it floating on the surface
OF the quiet water below like so much
saw dust on mll-stream
The casuailes that have happened
al Niagara Falls have been by no means
SO numerous as, considering the number of
persons who visI, them, and particularly the
Intense excitement which fills the mind Of
the beholder, as he gszes on this most
wonderful OF oil Gods natural works. one
would be apt to imagine Yet there have
been some terrible accidents, and some of
the most startling Of these have CHANGED
at or near the very point at which Able and
his companions met their fate
ia le46, August 81, Charles Smart, of
Philadelphia, fell from rock 10 the " Cave
of the WINDS. " (Which is under the Amer
Icau FALL and, of course, was killed in
SANITY. Between the Blddle Staircase"
and the entrance to the Cave" Dr.. Hun
geriord, Of West Troy, was killed in MAY,
lc39, by the fall ola portion of the rock
upon hun. A boy, named Murphy, 10
June, 1887, attempted to cross the river in
a canoe, and was drawn into the current
and went over the American Fall A little
boy by the name Of White only five years
old, aud his sister, a year or two his senior,
were playing III canoe near that part Of
Cos Island where the bridge crosses the
Rapids, from the village Of Niagara The
canoe loated out into the stream The
mother Of the children beheld the scene
rushed into the river and rescued the grl
but the boy was carried over the Fall near
the point where Able took the fnghlfu
plunge. The little fellow was last seen SIT
tlng IA the bottom Of The canoe holding out
hs hands to each side. as if to keep the lr4t
craft steady as It was borne on i.s peuous
way. THIS was 10 July, 1910 Neither
Murphy's nor Whites body was ever
found
1t was very near that fatal spot that the
foolish farce OF Mrs. Miller, OF Detroit. was
played of lew years ago. 1t occasloned
much speculation At the time, aud its re-
suits we're SAID 10 be serious the father of
the person alluded to, very respectable
man, having died Of broken heart ia con.
sequence of IT, Mrs Miller, actuated IL
was thought, by jealousy or some freak of
the kind, cut her shawl o. pieces, tied them
together, and hung them over the bridge
leading to Goat Island intending doubtless
to produce tie impression that she bad
committed smcide 10y letting herself uown
into the Rapids and gong over the Amer-
can Fall. Aiier occasionlng much pam
aud trouble to her family aud friends, she
turned up, we believe, at Syracuse.
De NeuX, who wrote an interesting work
on Niagara, relales that the Indians have a
tradition that two human beings Will
be sacrdced yearly To- the Great Spirit of
these waters. Ii IS striking fact that AZ
most every year has proved fatal to some
VISITOR OF the Falls of NIAGARA. An uhhguv
guide Mr.. Johnson, to whom hlely we had
occasion to refer, with grateful recoilectous
OF ms poiteuess tous while there, tells as,
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