Show A DARE DEVIL DEAD Steve 1ccr Walks His Cable Once too Often NIAGARA FALLS Juno 21Steve Peer the local celebrity who outdid Blondinin daring feats around Niagara and who recently crossed on a J inch cable is dead Ever since ho did tho daring act ho has been drinking very heavily Last evening at about 730 Peerwent out unobserved with John Gillespie and a stranger and was seen in the same company near his rope As he did not show up by 830 a m and no trace of him could be discovered elsewhere it was concluded that he must have got on his rope and fallen from it or tumbled over the bank and ropes Lanterns were procured and Peers brother with another man was lowered low-ered down and near the bottom of tho incline in-cline they found his lifeless body badly cut around the head The body was raised to the top of the precipice by means of rope The general belief is that he attempted to walk out on the cable and lost his footing and fell into the abyss below |