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Show I LADS SHAKE HANDS IN BJ PRESENCE OF DEATH BJ Whirlpool Rapids Engulf Small Boat BJ Carrying Buffalo BJ Boys g' Niagara falls, N. Y, Juno .22. WT Donald Roacoe, 10 years old and Hu- H ert Moore, 9 years old, both of But- falo, went to their death In a small boat late this afternoon In tho Whirlpool Whirl-pool rapids, while hundreds of men watched helpless on the shore. The boys were playing In a flat bottomed scow, half a mile above the rapids when the ropo holding the boat broko and they were carried out Into tho stream and went down the river After the boat Passed tho bridges the current carried It rapidly toward tho rapids. Tho bridge men did not seo the small boat until It was close at hand. Then they called fire headquarters head-quarters and two companies of lire-men lire-men were sent to save the lads It possible. pos-sible. There wero scores of passengers In the cars along the gorge routo and they watched tho hopeless struggle of the boys. The hundreds who bad gathered at tho water's edge could offer no aid. Men became hystorlcal In their powerlessness and women passengers on the cars wept and prayed In distress at the plight of the lads, who were standing up In tho boat culling for help. As the boat ncared the Swift Drift the first breaking of the river from the calm upper reaches to the lap-ids. lap-ids. It began to rock. The boys sat down to keep from tumbling Into the stream. Then, caught In Swift Drift, v-boht v-boht went racing under the bridge As they passed under the bridge '.uey ceased their cries for help. The '.wo mites turned towatrds each other and calmly shook hands, then with the boat In the tumbling waters throw themselves on the seats or the hont and clung with all their strength. The craft held to Us course until It encountered a huge wave, which crested at a height of forty feet. It seemed to dlvo In the middle o! the wave and when It calmo again to view It was bottom up. A second or to later, a little head was seen bobbing on a wave below for a moment and then was seen no moro. |