The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-10-25
A WOMAN'S DARING EXPLOIT
MRS. ANNTEE. YLOR GOES OVER
 NIAGARA FAILS.
Accomplishes a Feat Never Before Att tempted-EIakes the Trip In Barrel- Not Only Survives but Escapes With- the Way Except During n Few Mo- ments of fUnconsciOusne
Inents of UncoMsciOusn ess,

Niagara Falls, N, T., Oct. 24.-Mrs.
 Annie Edson Taylor, fifty years old,
 went over Niagara Falls an the Cana
 dian side this afternoon and survived
 a feat never before accomplished, and,
 indeed never attempted except in the
 deliberate commission of suicide. She
 made the trip in a barrel. Not only did
 she survive but she escaped without a
 broken bone, her only apparent injuries
 being a scalp wound one and one-half
 inches long, a slight concussion of the
 brain, some shock to her nervous sys-
 tenn and bruises about the body. She
 was conscious when taken from the
 barrel. The doctors in attendance upon
 her tonight said that, though she was
 somewhat hysterical, her condition Is not at all serious and that she will in
 all probability be out of bed in few days.
 Mrs. Taylor's trip consisted of mile ride through the rapids before she reached the brink. Her barrel, staunch as barrel could be made, was twirled and toppled and buffeted through those delirious waters, but escaped serious contact with rocks. As it passed through the smoother, swifter waters that rushed over into the abyss 1t rode in an almost perpendicular position with it's upper half out of the water. As 1t passed over the brink it rode at an an gle of about forty-five degrees on the outer surface of the deluge and de- scended as gracefully as barrel can descend to the white foaming waters, 15S feet below. True to her calcua- tions, the anvil fastened to the bottom of the barrel kept it foot downward, and so it landed. Had it turned over and landed on it's head Mrs. Taylors head must have been crushed in and her neck broken.
 The ride through the rapids occupied eighteen minutes. It was 4:2S o'clock when the barrel took it's leap. It could not be seen as 1t struck the water be- low, because of the spray, but in less than half minute after it passed over the brink 1t was seen on the surface of the scum covered water below the falls. It was carried swiftly down to the green water beyond the scum, then, half way to the Maid of the Mist landing, it was caught in what Is known as the Maid of the Mist eddy and held there until it fioated so close to the shore that it was reached by means of a pole and hook and drawn in upon the rocks at 4:4O o'clock, seventeen minutes after it shot the cataract. Ten minutes later the woman was lifted from the barrel and half an hour later she lay on cot at her boarding place on First street, in Niagara Falls, and 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 that 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 moments" of un- | just after the descent.
 The barrel in which Mrs. Taylor made | the journey Is four and one-half feet l nigh and about three feet in diameter. l A leather harness and cushions inside | protected her body. Air was secured | through a rubber tube connected with | l small opening near the top of the | barrel.
 Mrs. Taylor is a school teacher and | recently came here from Bay City, Michigan.