The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-09-08
OVER NIAGARA FALLS.
Brodie Goes Over the Horseshoe Fall in His
Rubber Suit Unhurt.

CLIFTON, Ont, Sept. Steve Brodie
went over the Horseshoe fall this morning
in rubber suit. He was picked up below
the falls in an unconscious condition
and taken to Clifton. He recovered con-
seriousness not long after, and an eXamina-
ton showed that he was not seriously in
jured.
Brodie. together with several friends and
newspaper correspondents, arrived last
night. They left the hotel at o'clock this
morning and went to point 200 feet above
the falls. BrOdie then stripped and had
his body padded with cotton batting, then
put on rubber suit, which was inflated to
tifty-two inches around the waist and
seventy-five inches around the chest. The
head gear was also inflated, while two steel
bands protected the body. At 80 Brodie,
with paddle, entered the water. caught
the current, waived the paddle, and
few seconds later was shot across
the centre of the Horseshoe fall
with lighting rapidity over the outside of
one of the falling volumes of water, and
was quickly lost in the mist and foam. He
was buried from view nearly two minutes,
when he appeared on the surface and was
carried toward the American shore. He
was then suddenly hurried toward the
Ledger, had ropes ready to draw him from
the water. Ledger was stripped, and swan
out 200 feet with a rope fastened to his
waist, while w. E. Harding held the other
end on shore. Ledger, after several at
tempts, reached Brodie, fastened the rope
to an iron band round his waist. then
swan ashore and assisted to pull the daring
swimmer ashore Brodie, having been
lifted on the rocky shore, was quickly
stripped. Brandy was rubbed in small
quantities on the temples. He was chafed
and insensible, and blood Oozed from his
nose and ears, probably from shocks or
conclusion. For twenty minutes Brodie
lay unconscious, until ammonia was ap-
piled to the nostrils, and he then began to
SILVER and gesticulate with his hands. He
gradually recovered consciousness and
then found his injuries were not serious.
He expects to be able to go to New York
tomorrow.
Brodie, in describing his experience, says
that after he entered the river he weak
ened, and would have given anything in the
world if he could have reached the shore.
He attempted to gain the shore by using
his paddle, when the swift current swept
him back and turned his feet toward the
brink of the cataract When he saw that
it was impossible to get out he felt the
same as a man who was to meet death.
Just as he came to the brink of the falls he
became unconscious through fright, and re
manned so until he struck the water and
was churned into the foam at the base of
the falls, when he was temporarily brought
to by the force with which he struck the
water. Then he again lost consciousness
and knew no more until he found himself
lying on his rubber suit at the waters
edge There is no doubt that Brodie sue
cessfully went over the falls.
Chief Mcdowell, of the Ontario police,
arrested Brodie at the Grand Trunk station
this afternoon, as he was about to take the
p. m. train for New York He is charged
with attempting suicide by going over the
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