Salt Lake Tribune | 1910-06-15 | Page 1 | Acrobat Hangs By Teeth Nearly Hour Over Falls

ACROBAT HANGS BY TEETH NEARLY HOUR OVER FALLS NIAGARA FALLS. N. Y.. June VI.-Durlng VI.-Durlng the rirst International exposition htuo toduv an unldeiilltlcd man leaped Into the river before the eyes of thousands thou-sands and was awepl over the brink or Luna falls. , , , . , , Oscur Williams, a steeplejack, tried a trip ucross the gorge on a wire, hanging by his teeth. His apparatus became. Jammed on the wire when bo was about half way over and he hung lorly-llve minutes. 1 reel above tho river, until II rumen slid a rope and pulley out to him, by which ho descended to the Maid of the Mist below.