Litchfield enquirer., 1857-04-09
ren1aYka3ele Esespe.

I Oa Tuesday, March 3l, a little before 12 r o'clock, man was seen floating ill the swift bids under the bridge over tie Niagara Rap ! ,ls. Ei!e report spread immediately, and the citizens tIocked to the bridge in ali directions
 Immediately :lsotIler report told that tie man has, f,unti Judgement on rock in the rapids
 Enouts! t !," possible thought l, as ran with tie c,oG,l to tie bank that a man, after haT!l:- "Ja on.e even ii tie edge Of the rapids below .t:t. r:s::-c ..oai escape death ] knew that ;a.t E,v:,Jw e bridge was tI.a ronghest ra,1:i? E:e tllt!l and velocity lad always prevented S;,Eutl:a:r tie !;cttom 1 had often gone thcr, 10 tlic bank and gazed for hours On tie scene. which continually varied as the olstlucttj : s.rc,tt ls;:cs Sack against coHtcnding waves sc!l>iI'ig ''S foo', and spray thirty CT forty est high. mad gone there too. by moonlight. so oro,tsla1:!atr th, awful grandeur of the acrsie
 Ca re::':.';''.: tie br:dgn, with the a:x;ovs crows :ot.!>cd where every eye was g;.ziny Il p;l;i.iti anxiety, and tcro, nnai!y 300 feet down tie !" 'IcHId:euar s:ties Of :Ac rocks, was the figure Of q lii:n upon rech ia tic edge oi the rapids. 4 spy-glass showed that hc was an aged man with d bai>i head, and well dr,s- Se,l in dark clothes and We coald sec him move carefully on the rock. Itappcared bare l ly possible. to us that by desperate cffcrt le might gain q ro;,'. near him. and then htd ! safer sa3t nearer the Defl,E }U!rt;iur !ank
 Every oI!e saw Hat he could not have approach vh tiIe si Dt where ne was except hy being carried there in the rapids ffoin some Way above. B"tween the rapit's and tie rcrrc.l- dcG!ar rt;cks along the bank, it was cvi,ltl; that no human aid could be rendered. But soaeti.!ns must be done the man Was wet and cold if not exhausted. \ young man by the name of Whtmcr is now seen to carry q ladder along the top of the bank above but what can he dc ~ith a ladder? It is 800 f;.ct down to the unfortunate man, and the rocks lFnlfct ever so mnch that the nan cannot be seen from tie jHIk above. Mir Wiitner nov Sn'is tor more ladders, and d crowd begins to tie them toScti!cr man is now seen on the opposite side of the river, where he can see the niin and s;gn"i where the ladders should be let down. Tie line of ladders begins to de- scentl, and is 'lt! at tie tep by ropes fastened to trees. Tine poor man below has been nov ing, as # wanting to leave the rock, bat dare not ycsiturH ile KNOWS nothing of what is n,}- ing ,hnvc ll!n ; If he sees the long crowd of anN,ous spectators on the bridge 1t eau only dis'scartcn him, Ior there they can iein!rr him no ass:>tH1lcc But they can see the lne of ladders ,!cscen'!:ng to him Now the ladders | have caused little dirt to fail down c,osc Iy i the poor man belcw-he looks up. CneXpect- e.l hope He sees a ladder swinging and slowly descending from rex ks high over han. It hun it must lock Ike ''Jacob's lnd';er' lei down from Heaven From his ro7ition he can see nonc ot his anxious rcScuers--- not even one half tho line of ladders. Tine end Of the ladder seems now not more than twenty feet from him.
 He cnnnot reaci, that from he rock where he is He is now trying to leave the rock ! He may jump to the next rock by desperate cflort,-if he slips he is lost in the rapids. At list he amps. and the crowd on thc brdrc give tremendous cheers oyer his success Ie iS now seen to whip his hands about hm ef, to exercise l;nIsrif 10 keep from freezing. for he had been an hour and d half oil the rock We now saw that a mal had begun to ,l=4:cn'l the ladders from the top 10 rcn''cr ally assistance that might ho needed. This man was hF. The;iie, tho hr;'l&a porter. He descended to the cnd oi the ladder, and found that 1t must hc 1t down twenty feet lower. lie then as rrnt's.d, and they lowered the lad'lcr and BOW tie man below was allie to rcah it, and began slowly to ascend. < courageous Ger man '1y tie name oc I-nate Frne, an cl! man, who couId not speak any English, BOW went
 down tie ladders to give assistance ii 1t >I.onL he needed We saw him meet the co,l. wet and almost exhausted old man, ncar the boz tom hc carefully went below him. and ;Sccn,led with him THcy cane safe to tile top or the bank an, Wa saw that tine l;Fe of respectable ! arrcAi'n~ stranger, had been saved He a1,- p"arcd to hc a man of strong constitution, ! t'lon@h nearly sixty years of age. His coi.i- trnancc ''csI'nAr the gratitude he felt, and tic crowd expressed their own joy and sympathy ] in ti,c most !lcarty cheers. The stranger was taken 10 the Ladour House, vh;rc he was carcd Cor in the kndcSt manner Lr Mir I,aduuc the proprietor. After i,Htt1@ ca some dry clothes: the stranger appeared on the piazza. at t:c request oi the cl3Wl H@ said, Gin sub Stancv
 Gentlemen. Of kind hearts, carrot express my feelings 10: my thauks so great is my gratitude tc rou. Nor is it in my power to re- ward you. l hope none of you will ever require such a favor in kind as what you have bestowed OH me My name is T. c. Taylor. reside in West Winfield, Hcrkimcr O.. N. '. | i was on ,ny return home from the West. 1t little before twelve o'clock to-day, ! weht down th" Sairs hy the mill above the bridge, to sec ;ow 5i.e sachinery that taras the m I here was eon~tFurtcl. l lost my ioothold It the edge of fhe rapids, and ~as earr:ed with great velocity in the water, when suddenly found myself on tie rock where you found me- While there. saw tie crowd gather on the bridge. bat ustil l saw the ladder had not the slightest hope that shoi,ld be rescued TrsJxac.
 A MOST singular trial has lately taken place rS