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Show NIAGARA GORGE BADLY JAMMED UP WITH ICE , , NIAGARA FALLSViN. Y., April 10. The ice .jam in tho Niagara gorge continues, con-tinues, and between this city and Lew-iston Lew-iston the water has risen forty feet above normal. The plant of the Ontario Power company, com-pany, of Niagara Falls, Out., has suffered suf-fered considerable damage, causing a stoppage of the machinery. The steam reserve plants at Rochester, Syracuse, West Seneca and elsewhere arc being used to supply a portion of the current in the state of Now York. The plant of the Hydraulic Power company is also seriously interfered with, 'fhe Miiid of the Mist, landing here has been swept away and tho upper up-per steel arch bridge and the suspension suspen-sion bridge near Lewiston are threatened. threat-ened. ' Tho Great Gorge railroad is entirely out of commission, its tracks being covered cov-ered by ice in places to the height of fifteen' feel. |