| Show EAT T ICE JAM RESISTS 1 TilE THE POWER VER Of DYNAMITE K Niagara Falls N. N Y 1 1 April 1 It 2 22 It was demonstrated fed today OdaY r that the immense ice jam gall lodged in the Niagara river riVet between Lewiston and Lal Lake e 0 Ontario o cannot be moved cd b by s dynamite vua mi te After Alter the state departure department of public works had tak taken n up the matter no time was lost 1 Dynamite was hurried Jn to Fort Niagara and with that post as the base hase of operations men worked today trying to s shatter hatter the ice ice They The went out on tho the jam to an advantageous ad all- nn point oln t whore they placed fully fulls' P pounds of the explosive burled bur bur- led i In the tho Ice Over this tho they arranged and nd timbers hoping thereby to assist plunks the thC dynamite to more moro effective r results the tho Ice the blast was I charged from the shore There was un nn oval a white while mass flying through Mr alt and then limes quiet quint Tho The Jam jars was 11 limb untouched at least it was wan p unmoved Heavier charges were dle- dle and tired but the same Iamo t. t cf- cf cd d dei neri- neri Y S li or ot sac a lak lk or r fr ls were eM ex plow eri- eri frets feeLS f hunks chunks of Ice i Still sill tinge r cell Foil t- t Niagara lajara in damaging a furt fur 11 lI ant and life Having g the w time the 11 1 bank hanl located INI it U was dine i mined Ined that hint iho hu hen 1 r thickness of or tho Jam jam combined with I t tho e comparative openings s of ot tho the ice was S such auch that the dynamite was not f f- f teethe it was concluded that tho the mass could not lIot bo bt started by such auch methods and Indications now are that the natures nature's na na- natures nature's tures ture's way is 18 tho the only remedy that will the tho much desired relief roller People between Lewiston and Youngstown were wore much ted disappointed at the tha failure of oC tho the dynamiting opera opera- From tho ho Canadian side Hide as well as along this shore the Ice jam was watched by thousands the general ex expectation ox- ox being to see set tho the tremendous mass go Jo out when the time anchorages at atthe atthe atthe the mouth of oC the river Were torn lorn away a More blasting Is to donn tom t. t ron v when or charges chargers char cg of or dynamite ar arm on to tv IJ hr f used General conditions art are unchanged t |
