Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1869-12-24
Crushed by an icicIe.

Crushed by an lcicle.
Longfellow has so thoroughly
immortalized beautiful Minnehaha
that no visitor thinks of leaving the
State without paying his devotions
at the shrine of that waterfall.
Day in and out, summer and win
ter, there is continual round of
visitors to this favorite rural re-
treat.
In summer she cool shade, thick
foliage, and music of the water as it
dances along it's peobly bed until it
leaps over the rock into the beauti-
full dell below, makes it lovely re-
treat; but it is not more beautiful
then than when the cold frosts of
winter convert its sprays into ice,
forming magnificent icicles that de-
pend from the crest of the rock to
the base of the fall. Many persons
claim that in in it's winter dress of
ice and snow the fall is the most
beautiful. But be this as it may,
hundreds visit it all through the
winter and behold its beauty with
delight. The cold weather of the
past week has clothed it in all its
winter beauty, and immense icicles
depend from the roof of the rock to
or toward the base below.
j. E. Whitney, of this city, wish
ing to secure photographs, sent Mr.,
Charles Zimmerman up to Mime
haha yesterday morning to take
some winter views. Mr.. thinner
man placed his instruments and
while preparing to work, like near
ly all other visitors who go twere
concluded to crafty bis taste fol
for the beautiful by passing under
the fall and looking through the
spray. etc. 1t was about three
O'Clock in the afternoon when Mr.
Zimmerman passed under the fall
and it CHANGED that no other visitors
were present. Shortly before
O'Clock Mr.. Haines, a Photographic
artist from Chicago, went to Mime
haha, and also concluded to pass
under the falls. He had scarcely
got under the rock when startling
sigh met his eye. A huge icicle
perhaps weighing two or three hun
dred pounds, loosened by the thaw
had severed it's connection with the
roof above, and had fallen upon Mr.
Zimmerman, crushing him down an6
leaving him insensible beneath it
Mr.. Haines quickly sprang forward
and rolled the icicle off into the falls
and then calling for assistance be
gan the work of restoring the un
conscious artist. He was almos
frozen, and entirely insensible. HI
was carried to the public house neal
by and proper restoratives admins
tered, which restored him to con.
sciousness.
He states that while admiring the
beauty Of the fall aud the peculiar
information of the ice, something
struck him upon the head, and thai
was the last he knew about it. He
thinks he must have been insensi
BILE over a half hour. His head
neck and shoulder, and also one
limb, were found to be badly bruis
ed, but fortunately no bones were
broken. He had so far recovered
that he came home on the evening
train, but could scarcely walk, ano
was suffering considerable pain. -
His escape was marvellous, for the
rock under the fall is so slantine
that it was strange that the great
icicle did not precipitate him dowr
the rocks into the water, where he
would Of course have drowned.
Visitors who go there in thawine
weather should be very careful, fol
any one of these pendant icicles
may drop off at any time.-St. Pau
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