The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1912-02-05
ICE BRIDGE
BREAKS UP
AS VICTIMS WERE
CROSSING STREAM
Man and Boy Sacrifice Their Lives
in Fruitless Attempt to
Save Woman.
rarity Swept Down Raging, Ice
Filled Stream TO Death
in Whirlpool.

NIAGARA FALLS. y Y, Feb. a.
Inc great ice bridge that has choked
the river channel between the Gaia
raCt and the upper steel arch bridge
below the falls for the last three
weeks broke from its snoring lust AZ
noon today and went down the river.
taking with il to their death a man
and woman believed to be Mr.. and
Mrs. Eidridge Stanton. or Toronto
ana Burrell IlcacOck. II years old. of
East One Hundred and Seventeenth
street. Cleveland. O. Four other per-
:ons were on the ice AT the time. but
managed To got ashore in safety.
me bridge was considered perfectly
safe. For weeks the great fields of
ice had been coming down the river.
pliinG mp against the barrier, until IL
Was from 80 to 50 feet thick. and IN
dor the influence of zero weather the
great mass had become firmly
anchored 10 the shore The Jam was
about LOCO feet in length. and in some
places quarter of "A mile i'm breadth.
For two weeks it had offered safe
passage TO the hardy. and today an
immense crowd OF excursionists came
10 view the winter wonder Of the
river. Had the accident happened an
hour later in the day hundreds would
have lost their lives. for the crowd
was moving into Prospect park in the
elevators that run down the cliff for
IN" purpose Of vcnturng out upon the
ice
Victim in Whirlpool
Somewhere deep in the great whirI-
pool tonight sleeps the man. partially
identified as Mr. Stanton. who twice
put aside chances OF rescue i'm order
10 remain with his terror-stricken
wife. and who. in the shadow of death.
Just AT the break N the. rapids
spurned assistance for himself. and at
tempted TO bind about the woman's
body rope dangling from the lower
steel arch bridge. The late Burrell
Hcacock was cast in the same mould.
Had he not turned hack on the ice to
Civ" assistance TO the man. he, too,
might have made the shore On the
bridge at the Inc IL tore free from
the short. besides these three. were
Monro Gilbert. Of this city: Ignatus
Roth. Cf Cleveland IIcacock's COM
pan on. William hin. an old river
man: William Lablond. riverman. and
an unidentified Italian. Hills shack
was nearest 10 the American short.
WHOM he heard The grinding and crash
ing Of iho ice ne ran at top speed to-
ward the Canadian short. calling to
the Others to follow him. I.ahlond gave
them warning that safety lay In that
d reCfiCu. Gilbert and the Italian fol-
lowed thoir lead. but the others be-
cam" confused. Py the time they had
r'rainrd their CompOsure. the bridge
WIS moving fact down the river
The man and woman started first
toward the American shore but they
were stopped by lane q open water.
Bach th't ran toward tie Canadian
3 id". turned about and made for ths
tUei.rIu side when hardly more
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