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Show ; COURT DEATH I Hunters Every Year Venture I Forth on Niagara River, i ' Nlmrods Caught In Running Ice Jam ' Observed by Man With Glass, Who Watches Them Plunge Over , the Falls. ' Puffalo, N. Y. The fascination of ( hunting muat be very great when It b will lure men out onto the Niagara river in the winter to an almost cer tain death trap. It seems that the duck hunting Is especially good but ' very dangerous about a mile above the falls. Kvery winter adventurous duck hunters put out in small boats and dodge the lc cakes while they hunt 0 their favorite gam. As a ru'o, how- ever, most of the hunters perch them-h them-h selves upon s ledge of Ice and hunt from it They take a terrible risk even e by this method, for th Ice Jam that f is constantly moving down stream it I- at any time liable to dislodge the hunt s er's perch and down he goes a victim r- to the merciless cataract, n Not many years ago two men were . observed In a duck boat trying des-. des-. perately to row out of a running Ice Jam which had carried them down the Canadian channel from far up the river. Their terrified efforts were ( closely followed by a man with a spy glass, who Lad discovered them from the windows of one of the large shore factories on tho American sld. The r unfortunate men had already drifted too near the first roaring cataract to ' admit of any possible rescue, so the watcher could only helplessly watt for their pitiful death. l' In describing the Incident afterward, 0 he said: "Cod, what could I do to help them what could any man dot The ' Almighty alone seemed to hold them '1 In his power. One man seemed to be it wrenching his shoulders from their b lockets with tho oars; the other stood In the stern, desperately plying a plk pole An oar broke, and was replaced by a third. The man didn't loie a sec- and ln its replacement. Thin, In a 1 mighty stroke, the other oar went, I ind he fell sprawling back In the boat. ; He stood up, pulled the good oar from d Its pin, and begun paddling Insanely y from the side. a "They made little progress. Slowly ii tho great field of Ice swept them iuvn, down toward those snarling, it angry cataracts below. I writhed In ii tgony before the hopeless vlslor.. Into :he rapids swept the fore part of the i .Ice jam. Then the first great wave r lee med to rlso up and hover hungrily "ill '. mpm uw.-ft prr -jfs4 nt-bv rmri rr mi ,s ' " ' :, : 1ntviTr-:-.-j d 'J ( On the Ice Field st Niagara. ver the little boat. Doth men saw it nd rushed toward each other. Locked u n each other's arms they disappeared i Into the curling swell. That was the ast I saw of tlim." Niagara also plays the death trap tj lunted as well as hunters. Hundreds r if wild fowls are swept each year over h he falls. During densely foggy nights itrange ducks often stop to roost In d 4ie upper waters of the river. Irlft-i Irlft-i ng unconsciously toward the brink, b .hey are suddenly hurled down into bo abyss of plunging water, i. |