Show I 1 W NIAGARA SCENE OF TRAGEDY great ice jam give gives way and carries three pleasure seekers down the river to their death niagara falls N Y the great tee ice bridge that lias has choked the river channel between the cataract and the up per steel arch bridee bridge below the falls for the last three weeks broke from its shoring 1 at noon sunday and went down don the river taking with ith it to their death a man and a oman bald said to be mr and mrs eldridge stanton of to canada and burrell durrell heacock 17 ears old of cleveland 0 four other persona persons were on the ice at the tle time but managed to get ashore in safety I 1 the bridge was mas considered coc eldered safe sate for v beeks the great fields of ice hail bad been coining down the river piling up against the barrier until it as from ia eltty baty to ea g h ty f feet e e t thick and under the t h influence e c e of 0 f z e r 0 weather eather the great mass had become anchored fennly to the shore the jam was as about 1000 1 feet nide and in some places place a quarter of a mile in length for to weeks it had bad offe r ed s safe a f e passage and sunday an i immense m me n e e crowd of came to view the winter sier andar of the river had the cadent 9 happened an hour later hundreds would have lost their lives tor for the crowd was moving into pros peet park in the elevators that run doan the cliff tor for the purpose of ven yen curing turing out uon uvon the ice |