Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1873-07-24

the New York Herald detailing the story
OF the loss of the two young men ana lhe
woman who went over Niagara on the AN
inst.
After they had lunch they all whisper.
ed together and laughed merrlly, ana
soon after they left the hotel and walked
down to the creek.
One of the villagers noticed, as they
passed out from under the shadow OF the
inn, with its caves, as humble as Urlah
Heep, glinting in the sunshine, dark
cloud suddenly obscured the sun, ana
they seemed to walk as if under dark
canopy. When they obtained boat
however, this time free to 20 where they
pleased, and under no restricting promise
to the landlord the turned its prov down
the stream, and the sun came out from be-
hind the cloud and lighted up the waters
and threw glory about the fair girl IN
the stern of the boat and daZed the eyes OF
the boy in the bow. An old gentleman
who was passing over the bridge that
spans the creek little distance from its
mouth was attracted by the light laughter
that came up from the boat, and paused
few moments, looking steadily in that di-
rection. Whether the young man at the
oars was at the moment too much engag-
ed in looking into the pretty face directly
in front of him or not it is Impossible to
say, but the old gentleman remarked that
he was very unskillful in his management
of the boat
While the old gentleman was looking,
the boat, floating with the current, though
little impelled by the oars, passed out in
to the Niagara.
Now, at this point, less than three miles
from the cataract, it is possible to row
across. the river. Not only is it possible,
but, as a matter of constant occurrence,
it is considered comparatively safe. But
in crossing from the American side, leav-
ing the pier near the Erie depot, it is
necessary to row up the river as far as
the end of Grass Island, and then to cross,
still pulling diagonally up the stream and
bending to the work for dear life when
in the dark looking waters pointed out
from the shore rs the channel OF the
current. .af
On the other hand, rowing from the
Canada shore, you still pull a long way
up the stream before you venture to dag
onalize across.
Down below the mouth Of Chippewa
Creek, some twenty rods away, there is
"rivcr fence" beyond which the current
sets with fearful force toward the rapids.
The old man watched the boat moving
along in direction diagonally down the
stream, and heading for outside OF "the
river fence" He tottered back and
caught at the railing Of the bridge for
support, his face grew deathly pale and
he trembled like an aspen leaf. A little
child crossed the bridge and looked at
him curiously. Then an old woman fol-
| lowed, and he asked each OF them If they
knew who was in the boat that was going
| to go over the falls.
The woman looked scared, as though
she thought he was crazed. The child
ran away crying. This man was one of
| three who saw the boat after it left Chip
pewa, and while it still retained its form.
AS the water fence was passed and the
current was bearing them along swiftly,
specks Of froth dotted the water. The girl
looked from these beyond and caught a
glimpse Of the white foam and mist
| thrown now and again high in air along
| the crest of the first rapids She uttered
| cry and pointed in the direction of the
| first line of descent above Goat Island.
| Her lover looked over his shoulder, and
| an expression of horror must have settled
| upon his face. There was, doubtless,
| none of the bright color in the girls cheek
| that had made her the admiration of the
rustics in the village she was leaving be
| hind only short half hour before. Her
| lover grasped one of the oars with frantic
| haste, and with both hands he thought to
| turn the boat in the middle of that cur
rent running like mill race. He looked
| then, apparently, for the Oar-looked in
| the bottom of the boat and on every side
g., T. l,n Lot ~ H.,
moment of his first appalling horror. He
had dropped it in the water, and it was
carried away in second beyond sight and
sound, down in the depths of the foaming
| abyss of the rapids now yawning beneath
them. The boat darted down the first
| crest of rocks, the stern swinging about;
| a moment she was lost to view, and then
| came swinging on, seeming to point to-
ward Cedar Island Then she rose on the
point of a great foam covered rock, and
darted down bow foremost, as though
steered by invisible hands. From the new
tower the poor wretches, who had gone so
gaily forth in the frail cockleshell, were
seen clinging to each other in the bottom
| of the boat. Then cloud of mist and
spray yelled the whole from sight, and for
an instant only, just under the arch of the
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Fall, the end of the boat protruded from
the foam and mist; another instant, for
the space of the lightning's flash, two
black fragments of the breaking boat
were seen. and that was all. The waters
hid all else, and have continued to hide
ALL save few fragments of the boat,
which wash ashore beneath the cataract.
AT Owensville, KY, the other day,
William G. Satterfield was placed on trial
for burning that place last April. While
one Hudson was testifying with regard to
being employed by Satterfield to burn
the place, Satterfield and his friends rush
ed toward him with revolvers in their
hands Several determined citizens inter
fered and averted collision. The court
then adjourned over night. The next day
Satterfield and his friends rode into town
with double.barreled shotguns and were
met by Hoon, the jailer, and other citizens.
Hoon fired at Satterfield, killing him in
stantly, when the rest of the party fed.
Satterfield had been regarded as danger.
Gus and desperate character, and his death
was not much regretted by law-abiding
citizens.