Show NIAGARA SCENE OF TRAGEDY great grea t ice ja jam m gives Give giveaway sWay way and carries three pleasure seekers down the river to their death niagara falls N Y the great ice bridge that has choked the river chan nel between the cataract and the up per steel arch bridge below the lalla falli tor for the last three weeks broke from its shoring at noon sunday and went down the river taking with it to their death a man and a woman said eald to bd mr air and aad mrs eldridge stanton of tot TO canada and burrell heacock 17 years yeara old of cleveland 0 four other persons persona were on the lea at the time but managed to get ashore in safety the bridge was considered safe for weeks the great fields of ice had been coming down the river piling up against the barrier until it was from sixty to eighty feet thick and under the influence of zero weather the great mass masa had become anchored firmly to the shore the jam wad about 1000 feet wide and in some places a quarter a mile in length for two weeks it bad offered passage and sunday an immense crowd 0 of f excursionists came to view the winter wonder of the river had the accident happened im an hour later hundreds would han 6 ilves tor prospect park in the elevators that run down the cliff for or the purpose of 0 venturing out upon the ice |