The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1901-11-06
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NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y, October
24.-Mrs. Minnie Edison Taylor, so
years old went over Niagara Falls on
the Canadian side this afternoon and
survived feat never before accom-
plished, and indeed never attempted,
except in the commission of suicide.
She made the trip in a barrel. Not
only did she survive, but she escaped
without a broken bone, her only ap-
parent injuries being s.alp wound
one and q half inches long, slight
concussiol Of the brain, some shock
to her nervous system and bruises
about the body. She was conscious
when taken out Of tie barrel. The
doctors in attendance upon her to-
night said that, though she was some
wbab hysterical, her condition is not
at all serious and that she probably
will be out Of bed within a few days.
Mrs. Taylor's trip covered a mile
ride through the Canadian rapids be.
fore she reached the brink Of the
precipice. Her barrel was twirled
and toppled and buffeted through
these waters, but escaped serious con-
tact with rocks. As it passed through
tie smoother, swifter waters that.
rushed over into the abyss it rode in
an almost perpendicular position with
its upper half out of the water. Over
the brink it rode at an angle Of about
10 degrees on the outer surface of the
delugc and descended to the white
foaming waters, 15S feet below.
True 10 her calcul ations the anvil
fastened to the bottom Of the barrel
kept it foot downward and SO it land
ed. The ride through the rapids oc.
cupied eighteen minutes. The barrel
could not be seen as it struck the
! water below, because of the spray,
but in less than half o minute after it
passed over the brink it vas seen on
the surface of the scum-covered water
below the falls. 1t was carried swift
ly down to the Maid Of the Mist Land
ing, caught in an eddy, and held there
until it foated 80 close to the shore
that it was reached by means Of pole
and hook, and drawn in upon the
rocks. Ten minutes later the wo-
man was lifted from the barrel and
half an hour later, she lay on cot at
her boarding place on 1st street, in
Niagara Falls, on the American side.
She thanked God she was alive, thank
ed all who had helped her in any way,
said she would never do it again, but
she was not sorry she had done it "if
it would help her financially"
She said she had prayed all during
the trip, except during "a few mo.
ments of Inconsistencies just after
her descent.
| The barrel in which Mrs. Taylor
made the journey is four. and half
feet high, aud about three feet in
diameter. A leather harness and
cushions inside protected her body.
Air was secured through a rubber
tube connected with small opening
near the top of the barrel.
Mrs. Taylor is u school teacher and
recently came here from Bay City,
Mich.
- The Rav. Eugene Harrelson.
pastor of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, South, at Madisonville, KY,
was aroused the other night by re.
/ peated efforts to enter his house.
Hearing some one at the kitchen door,
he opened it and fired into the dark
ness. Some one ran and the minister
returned To bed. Next morning he
found Jim Lewis, colored, lying near
the door shot through the heart: He
was in his stocking feet and had eyi.
IDENTIFY planned burglary.
i Bill Morris; the negro who re.
Gently assaulted Mrs. John Ball in
Louisiana was burned at the stake.
A marriage license was taken
out at Portland, Maine, last week, by
Joseph Tiltnn, aye 81, 10 wed Caro-
line Griswald, age 80
The pension roll still carries four
widows of soldiers who fought in the
American Revolution
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