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Show NIAGARA SCENE OF TRAGEDY Greit Ice Jam Gives Way and Carries Three Pleasure Seekers Down the River to Their Death. Niagara Fulls, N. V. The great Ice bridge that hi:s choked the river than-pttl than-pttl between the cataract and the up-per up-per Steel arch bridge below the falls for the last three weeks, broke from lis shoring at noon Sunday and went down the river, taking with It to their death a man and a woman, said to be Mr. and Mrs. Eldrldge Stanton, of To. ron to, Canada, and Burnil Hcacock, 17 ywars old, of Cleveland, O. Four other persons were on the Ico at the time, but managed to get ashore In safety. The bridge was considered safe. For seeks the great fields of ice had been cctnlng down the river, piling up sgulnst the barrier until It was front sixty to eighty feet thick and under the Influence of xcro weather the great mass had become anchored firmly to the shore. The jam was about 1,000 feet wide and In some places a quarter f a mile In length. For two weeks It had offered safe passage and Sunday an Immense crowd of excursionists came to view the winter wonder of the river. Had the accident happened an hour later, hundreds would have lost their Jives, for the crowd was moving Into Prospect Pros-pect park In the elevators that run '.down the cliff for the purpose of ven- luring out upon the b e. |