Show Niagara Falls Claim Life of i Barrel BaITel Rider Niagara ara Falls N. N T. T July 11 Charles G G. Stephens of Bristol England was killed today when ho he went vent over the horseshoe a IL barrel barret The cask In which ho made the trip though built of stout Russian Russian Rus Rus- sian elan oak staves and bound with steel hoops was wag smashed like an eggshell Pieces of oC the barrel were picked up near the bank on the tho Canadian side but Stephens' Stephens body has ha not been recovered River men say that it may not como come to tho the surface for a a. week or ten day days Stephens was CS is years cars old and liaR Las a wife and eleven children in Bristol where he h was a a. barber Ho served three thrpo years ears In Franco France the British arm army Few knew that Stephens was to lo make the tho trip today garl Early sightseers sightseers sight sight- seers saw the barrel bobbing up and down but none knew that it carried a man about to defy the theCa theca ca cataract Ut met As tho the barrel drew near tho the brink of tho the falls it seemed scorned to stand on end hesitate a second or two and then lien t slide lIdo gracefully e over the elope slope head foremost and at a n. slight aUght an angle le S Field glasses trained on the boll boll- Iny waters at the tho base of ot tho the cataract cataract cat cat- act ar-act r revealed no sign of or the tho cask When an hour had passed old river men began to lo shake their heads dubiously Stephens is the third to attempt the barrel harrel trip over the tho falls fulls Mrs Mr Annie Edson Taylor Talor went vent over oer In October 1901 In an oak barrel and Bobby Dobby Leach m made dc the trip in July 1911 1011 1 in a n steel barrel are still living |