New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-11-29
A WOMAN'S FEAT AT NIAGARA.
DESCENDING THE RAPIDS IN A BARREL.
SURPRISING HER sCREAMs-MADE sEAsIck by
TOSSING OF THE WAVES.

TOSSING OF THE WAVES.
fBY TELEGRAPH To THE TRIBUNE.
NIAGARA FALLS, Nov. 90. Sadie Allen, who lives
In Seneca ST. in Buffalo, this afternoon won the iaures
heretofore IN the possession ot the whiripooi
navigators She went through the dangerous gorge IN
cigar-shaped barrel, accompanied by George Hazett
who made the trip with William Potts on August ..
She s Potss sster-in law and she thus accounted fr
the trip when asked at Hearnes Hotel this morning
why she was going to make it;
Willie Potts first suggested the idea to me after he
and George Hazlett went through in their BARREL lie
said; The next time make the trip we'll take you
along 1t said in fun, but repeated so often that
finally told them I'd go whenever they were ready to
take me- BY and by we began to talk seriously about
the trip, and the more we talked about it the more
anxious was to co. About week ago Will said that
Larry Donovan. the Bridge jumper, was trying to
find woman to go through the rapids with him, and
my orotherinlaw said ought to go through ogether
ahead OF him, and in the credit that Buhalo girl
made the trip. | agreed to that and we have been
figuring the arrangement tor the attempt ever
since"
but were you lot afraid 7"
why no, not at all. Will Potts and George Haz-
lett say that there is danger and that they'll take
care 80 we shall come out all right l am perfectly
willing 10 trust myself wherever those two boys VIII
60, and besides have made up my mind and teel anx-
ious to go through"
After eating hearty dinner Miss Allen put on heavy
fanne. clothing with PLAIN black dress and waist.
This she covered with gossamcr and at went with
Mrs scully, of whose family she is member, Mrs.
Samuel Hazlett and her sister, Mrs. Potts, to the
Canadian side, where the Maid OF the Mist landing
was tue torpedo barrel ready baasted for the rp
was tOwed around the rocks TO the steamer dock ana
Miss Allen, handing her hat 10 ber sister, jumped ght
y to the craft aud moment disappeared through
:he mantole Her head reappeared- She laugnedat
her trends and remarked that she was ready Tor the
trip AT 225 o'clock Hazlett entered tue barrel and
u was towel down the river toward the Nhripooi
Rapids The turret not fastened down at frs aud
both occupants put their hea s out and Sept up alk
with the men IN the boat Before the cantlleyer
bridge was reached the yoyagers fastened themselves
with ropes to the bottom OF the cask and the manhoe
was screwed the supply OF air being cut on except
Tor what came iii through small IRON pipe Inc men
in the small boat beng carried through win
the barrel, having inprudently gone down too TAR
TIE barrel twisted around in an eddy before the
current carried first breaker. whicn threw 1t
the combke vortex and plunged 1t out OF sight tor
second in the water The water was muddy the day
dismal and the waves higher than usual The three
quarters OF mile to the whirlpool took onlV three
minutes and it succession OF turneiings, over
tnrnngs and twstings. The channel was lower than
usual and old river feared that IL ere were any
ROCKS the torpedo woud be dashed TO peres. At the
whirlpool it was expected that there would be con
siderable difficulty, but this did not prove TO De the
and the barrel dashed the second series,
Devils Kapds, before Miss Allen or Hazett had a
chance to open the urre to show that they were alive
The trip did not continue much further, Dut the
Devils Rapids used the boat badly as they knew
how. In an extra outburst OF anger tue barrel was
thrown into eddy the Canada side not far across
hoaed tor three-quarers Of an hour until some men
from Colts Elevator assoed it and pulled 1t ashore,
liberdtng Hazelt and Miss Allen. They had to
Chamber along the rocks at the waters edge clear
around to the inclined railway. They did not reach
home until p T.. At Hearnes Hotel Miss Allen
complained OF feeling seasick. She did not talk much
but SAID
" bore the trip splendidlY but terribly tossed
around and thought it was dangerous alter all The
roar the deafenng and the way the barrel
lur ched made sick hung to the handles tight
ly aud my arms wrenched. vas almost too SICK
to walk when got ashore. think would have been
all hight if had drank glass OF wine before
started"
Did the barrel strike any rocks ~
Not that know Of"
Miss Allen not well enough to return to Buffalo
tonight Her companion, George Hazett, went home
on the evening train. He sad
"This trip than our last one. Miss Allen
stood it bravely. When were near the rapids
| told her to look out and she said she would made
a bet of So with her that she would scream, but she
did not. | think must have been III the whirlpool
FIVE minutes but when circing in the lower
eddy | could not tell where and did not dare
to open the manhoe."
Miss Allen will 90 in museum, II a sufficiently
liberal oer is made, although she Is not anxious To
exhibit herself Most OF the friends of the voyagers
expected that they would be carried clear through to
Lewiston and they had fruitless drive there through
the mud.