The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1912-02-09
Three PERISH. At
NIAGARA FALLS
Thousands Of People We're
Witnesses,
Ice Pack Gave Way-Most Thrill
ing Tradgedy In History
Of the Falls.

wa.ohas ware stationed at TIN, Whirl-
pool rapids sar'!y to-day, 1T was not
expected that THE ics-churnimg wat as
would soon If ever, r4.eaLse lihs bodies
OF the manywoman and boy who w,=r,
swspt down the gorg with flloss fa-om
yssusriay's sudd N dsinlagafcn Of
the ice bridg,.
Thc appearance of tho whirlpoL was
ugly and the grinding of the ice jam
racing Within it echord through tn
gorge. Great cakes of ice wsne b ing
hurried down ssram under she brdg 5,
wh,s-e still dnnglcd the ends tlf uhl.
ropes which bad proved us,faas i'm ;ha
endkavor to Rescue the trio rs dizzy
wsps bang swept down ssrenm.
Nothing developed today 10 maxi
more c'n;aan ihc tdm,ity of IN. man
and woman supposed TO b. Mr.. and
Mrs. Eldidge Sanson.of Torpnao On.
excepting that those p,rscns had not
rstuln d TO their ho'il. l. Is kndSn
that they s.ar.ed for the ice bridg.
about an hour before the sudd=n ~
lass If tons of ice below The falls
swept it away. The fathr of Bmi.l
Hscack of Chew and.the third viclim,
arrived today. Altar a look at IN.
ice-pi,.-d gorge he said he had no hop,
of ever So frg the body of his son,wlho
afr ba,ng drawn by a rope part way
up 10 che canrih,v-sr bridge slipp d
back cNhaus,ad into tho river
Niagara Fails, n. y, Fab. 5.-Ths
great ioe-bridys that has chokId the
rlver channel b lsksm THE catarac
and the upplr s'oa anuh bridge bdow
the fails for the LAS. Eilke wlsslas hlpka
from its shornirg mt noon Sunday
and wsm. down the riv5r, talking with
1t to ths.r daLh a man and woman
believed to be Mr.. and Mrs. Eldddgs
Stanton of Toronto, and Burial He
cock, agad II. of East One Hundr.d
and Seventeenth s.rs.t, cleveland, o.
-Four O1her persons We're ON thu Toe at
the Tins, but rachd lhe shoc,s in
sa6eMy.
The bridge was considensd part oily
aAfe. For weeks the grat fisslds u
Ice had been coming down the river,
piling up against the barrher until Il
was from siNty to eighty fest thick
and undr thu dattlu.noe of zarp iwt,ath.
er the enat mass had become Hiim-
ly anohOrNd to the shope. The Jam
was about 1000 feat I'm len@bh, and in
soma places a quarter of mile In
BREADTH For two waelus dt had offer
ed saAe passage to THE handy, and
Sunday an Immense crowd Of excursion
lists came to yiaw the winter wonder
OF the river Had THE acoidant happen
ed an hour latsr In hhe day hundreds
would have lost their hives, for this
crowd was moving INTO Pr0spect Park
In nhe elevators that run down thu
cliff for tina purpose of manltmring out
upon tine ica
Somewthere deep DIN tho grsnt wihird-
pool slaaps Hhe man aa rtiaaly idMti-
fied as Stanton. who twice put Asads
chances Of mescue DIM ORDER to ramadn
with his terror-sntcksm wlifeAnd who
In tins shadow of daath-just ait the bre
In the uapids-spumsd Rssslstanca for
himself and Attempted to bind aIbout
the woman's body a rope. dangling
from the lower stKa Rn,dh bridge. Tho
lad, BM,neN Hscock, WAS east i'm the
same mold. Had he mot tarnad back
ON THE leo ito giva assistance to the |
man he too might have made the shore. |
On tine bridge nt tine time 1T to-o
fnee from tho shore besides these three
We're Monroe Gilb@t. of thds cSty;
Ignasiiis Roth. Ut OlsWaAnd. Hacock' =
companion; Walliam Ialblond. river-
man, and am unidmhihiad lthallan. |
fill's shack WAS nksarxst to rhe Amer-
lean shore. When hie heard tina en,ind-
Ing and crashing Of line Ice he run
AZ top speed towards tina Canadian |
shone CALLING TO the nihHrs TO nollnw
him. LabApnd gave them waauling
hat safety lay in THAT tiiracuinn. GIL
belt and tho Italian toldowsd their
laad. bat the Others became confused.
BY the time they bad naeadnkd thsir
the ba.idse was moving fast
down the rivar.
The man and woman s.ar'hsd first !