The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-06-23
Two Lads Swept Over Nj
agara Falls While Hundreds
of Men Look On, Help
less to Save.
WOMEN ONLOOKERS
PRAY IN DISTRESS
Nine Government Employees
Drowned in Mississippi;
Party of Four Meets
Death in the Missouri.

NIAGARA FALLS. n. Y, June 22.-
Donald Roscoe, 10 years old, and HUI
bert Moore, years old. Of Niagara
Falls, went to their death in a small
boat late this afternoon in the Whir-
pool rapids, while hundreds Of men
watched helpless on the shore The
boys were playing in flat bottomed
scow, half a mile above the rapids,
when the rope holding the boat broke
and they were carried out into the
stream and went down the river.
Up to the time the boat reached mid
stream it made little progress. After
it passed the bridges, the current car
ried it rapidly towards the rapids. The
bridge men did not see the boat until
it was close ut hand Then they called
fire headquarters and two companies
Of firemen were sent to save the lads.
if possible.
Vain Effort to Rescue.
Hundreds swarmed to the river
banks in n vain effort to rescue. The
boys, realizing their fate, stood UP as
the boat neared the edge of the roar
ing whirlpool, and shook hands in
farewell A second later they were en-
quilted by great wave in the rapids
The boat shot out of sight One of
the boys was seen for moment strug-
Cling in the rushing waters, and then
disappeared, Neither body has been
recovered.
Never at any time was there a
chance to save the boys. The firemen
could do nothing. There were scores
of passengers in the cars along the
gorge route, and they watched the
hopeless struggle Of the boys The
hundreds who had gathered at the wa.
ter's edge could offer no aid. Men be.
came hysterical in their powerlessness,
and women passengers on the cars
wept and prayed in distress at the
plight OF the lads, who were standing
up in the boat calling for help
Calmly Shook Hands.
AS the boat neared Swift drift, the
first breaking of the river from the
calm upper reaches to the rapids, it
began to rock. The boys sat down TO
Keep from tumbling into the stream.
Then, caught in swift drift, the boat
went racing under the bridge AS
they passed under the bridge they
ceased their cries for help. The two
mites turned towards each other and
calmly shook hands, then with the boat
IN the tumblng waters threw them
selves on the seats of the boat and
.lung with all their strength.
The craft held to It's course until it
encountered huge wave, which
crested at height OF forty feet. 1t
seemed to dive in the middle of the
wave, and when it came again to view
I was bottom up. A second or two
ater. little head was seen bobbing
IN a wave below for a moment and
hen was seen no more,
Bodies in Whirlpool.
The bodies of tho boys are in the
and may never be recovered.
There was n quantity of driftwood
ghirling there this afternoon, and the
,odies may be beaten to 9 pulp, rs
we're those of Mr.. and Mrs. Eldridge
stanton of Toronto and Burrel Hea-
ock OF Cleveland, the victims of the
ce bridge tragedy Of February 4, 1912,
vho were battered By cakes of Ice.
The point where the boat broke
pose is about half mile from the be-
inning of the rapids. It drifted down
n about twelve minutes, passing un-
er the lower steel arch bridge at 4.55
clock.
The Roscoe boys mother is very i'll,
nd was not told of the tragedy. The
oys were members Of we'll known
antilles OF Niagara Falls They had
cen chums for several wears. just be
ore dark tonight watchers OF the bank
aw the bodies in the rapids, but could