Show NIAGARA RIVER FREEZES Not Likely to be Repeated in Present N. April The voice of mute today for the second time in the memory of The river is frozen solid from bank to On Wednesday the worst gale of the season was The solid ice fields of Lake Erie were churned from end to end and piled in a huge mass at the lower end of the At Niagara Falls there had been a heavy ice bridge in the pool below the cataract since the middle of the Under the impact of the mass of ice from the lake above and the added floes brought through by the wind the bridge gave way and began to surge down the But before it could win freedom in Lake Ontario the wind shifted to the Instantly the moving packed at the mouth of the The pack froze steadily and each hour brought added pressure from Forty Feet Above Unable to escape by its natural the level of the river quickly The highest flood level recorded from previous years is 28 feet above the Friday night the river was 40 feet above Water poured over the window sills of the power house of the Ontario Power company and flooded the The tracks of the Great Gorge route were covered from the lower steel arch bridge to Conservative estimates place the damage at All day long a constant stream of visitors poured down the railway trolley packed the trains and ears and even rode and walked cross-country to see a sight that is not likely to repeat itself within the present |