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Show DYNAMITE TO BREAK NIAGARA'S ICE JAM NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y.. April 21. Acting with the approval of tho war department, dynamiters tomorrow will attempt to blow up tho ice. jam in tho Niagara river. The jam is sixty foot high and twelve miles long. Residents along the banks from Qtioeiiston to Lake Ontario aro panic-stricken, panic-stricken, fearing not so much a further rise. in the river as the btulden breaking of the jam. Tho ico has uprooted huge trees and carried away docks and boat houses, and would, in a sudden rush, erase acres of territory along tho upper river banks. It was planned t'ouight to rush two cnrloads of dynamite to tho scene and begiu r he work at dawn. In the meantime, the ico remains passive, but threatening. The key to tho jam, apparently, was the mnss of ico lodged on tho sandbar at the mouth of the river. Pressed forward against this ns well as latterly toward cither bank was a mammoth field of ico varying vary-ing in thickness from thirty to seventy feet and intermingled with it great j rocks, pieces of timber from shattered docks and the trunks of trees. Between Lewiston and Qiioonstoii tho mass was a splendid bit of polnr scenery in miniature. min-iature. Interest at the falls today centered in tho hugo mounds of ico' near tho Bridal Veil falls, where tho body of a supposed suicide had been exposed. Attempts to recover the body were unsuccessful. |