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Show DOWN NIAGARA RAPIDS. flie Body of a Woman on a Cake of lc. Whirled Over American Falls. A sensational story is told here by Master Edwin Whitney, son of Mr. and Mrs. Solon Whitney of this city. It is tn effect that he saw at the house of hia grandfather, Major Whitney, on Buffalo avenue, the body of a woman float past the rear of the house down through the rapids and over the falls. The hour was about 8:80 in the morn ing. Master Whitney says that he saw ; the object on a cake of ice, and that there could be no mistake about it being a woman. She had on lark clothes, he thought, and part of her face was visible as she lay on the ice. He called the Attention At-tention of the two painters at work on the veranda on the river Bide of the Whitney Whit-ney mansion, and they also thought it was a body. The painters alluded to are John O'Brien and Harry Colly er. Both substantiated sub-stantiated the boy's story. Mr. 0Brieu said: "Our attention was called to th& river by a flock of ducks flying over. Young Whitney and myse'f saw the object on the ice coming dawn the river and at first thought it was a log. As it came nearer we saw that it was a human being, be-ing, and when still closer that it was a woman. Mr. Collyer's attention -was called to it, and he also thought it was a woman. The cake of ice with the body passed probably but 50 feet from the shore down into the rapids. The body was of good 6ize and appeared to be enveloped en-veloped in a long steel gray cloak which reached nearly to the feet. The woman was lying extended, and there could be no mistake as to it being a woman." The three watchers followed the object ob-ject as far as the rapids, where the ice and its burden wrere tossed about and went over the American falls. It doubtless doubt-less passed under the ice bridge and may never bo found. Niagara Special to New York World. |