The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1889-09-13
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ed 10 Spite The Cynies, and
WOn't Go Again.
Buffalo Evening News.
NIAGARA FALLS, Sept. 2.-Carlisle
D. Graham yesterday accomplished
the feat of going over Niagara Falls
alive, much to the surprise Of his
friends and the people who are famil,
lar with the ruthless manper in which
the torrents deal with life. This was
tie height Of Graham's ambition,
something Tor which he has striyen for
over three years. The immediate
preparations were very quickly made,
although the experiments of sending
torpedoes, floats and barrels over the
cataract during the last two months
were made with this end in view. The
barrel was the one used by him last
Sunday to make the trip through the
Whirlpool and Devils rapids It is
A feet long and Its greatest diameter
is N inches,
Constable Andrew Horn drove Sra
ham and the barrel up to Chippewa
where they were joined by Constable
Garry X, Staley of LaSalle. AT the
time agreed upon Graham orouohed
down IN the barrel aud the constable
locked him In and set him adrift about
500 feet from the shore, According
to tho accounts of those who saw the
barrel go over the falls the trip to the
brink occupied % minutes. People
on Table Rock say that 1t swept over
the Falls about 200 feet from the Can
ada shore, and that it reappeared In
the torrent below iu u minutes. It,
went into Bass Rock eddy and was,
after 25 minutes, captured by AlmeT
Jones and Michael Cahilb who, with |
William 7, Barbridge, Frank TieTuey,
Jerry Leary and other friends Of Gra-
ham, were waiting along the shore TO
rescue the navigator
Mr.. Jones says that be found it
necessary to swim out into the eddy
to catch the drag rope with which the
cask was pulled ashore. Both men
unite in saying that Graham was more
dead than alive when they broke open
the manhole cover aud dragged him
out, His condition was sufficiently
serious so that William Deyere, the
theatrical manager who has been back
ing Graham, summoned tho naViga.
tors wife from Buffalo. She Is now
taking care of him.
Mn Graham 10 conversation with
the Nstgs reporter related his expert.
enCes.
~ determined to make the trip"
said the navigator, "beeauae / was
satisfied that | could make it safely.
| notified all the people that l could
trust and went ahead, They can tell
you what they saw"
But what did you see ~
Nothing | was locked up in the
barrel. couldn't have gotten out
to have saved my neck. The irons at
the bottom were all right, but those
on the top had to be movable and
Constable Horn locked them. That
was the only way they could be fixed.
| was just as helpless as a dog would
have been. | went down to the comb
ing or reef where the Horseshoe rapids
start, so quickly that | was hardly
prepared. The fall there must be 15
or 90 feet, The first thing | knew,
seemed to be going into a deep abyss
and thOn | got a lick on the head like
a policeman would give a drunk,
Then | didp't know much, l was
tossed about like feather. could
not get much air and did not change
my position, | had braGed myself
with the aid of straps so | would not
strike my head again"
"What were your sensational
II cannot tell Just when I did 60
over the Falls" said Graham, "thn
awful shaking up got stuplied me.
| felt happy. felt like man who
had passed into the painless portion
Of death by drowning. There was q
sense of danger mixed with pleasure,
which then seemed more pleasant than
] feel now after accomplishing this
feat, WHICH has been the ambition of
my life. There we're many shocks 10
the trip, but none SO great as the first
one and the mero act Of going over
the Falls did not make itself particu-
laFly felt, | was not entirely obliVi- |
Gus, bnt felt helpless and Yoiceless, |
There was the terrible roar in my ears
| tried 10 speak aloud in the barrel 70 |
break it bnt couldn't, Il was simply |
awful. Yet felt a contented resig-
nation that | cannot now understand
The first | knew that | was really oVer
Niagara Falls was when the barrel
went in Bass Rock eddy. | was ID
an almost iBsensible condition. They
raped on the barrel and shouted to
me, | could hear them talk TO me
and tried 70 answer but | copldn'k
Finally they broke open the barrel. I
didn't faint, but ! don't know What
happened for aYhilep
"Will yoR ever attempt the trip
sgalnW
"NeYer, once i enough. came
TO Niagara Falls three years ego 70 go
over the Falls, People said all ! had
to Do was 70 60 over the rapids and 4
did Il. Then others followed me.
Then | vent through ihe whirlpool
and they chased me there. Last SUN
dag | made & better Tip than any Of
them and escaped after | was draWp
wav down ~ Devils maelstfom. To-