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Show NIAGARA SCENE OF TRAGEDY Great Ice Jam Give Way end Carrie Three Pleasure Seeker Oown th River to Their Death. Niagara Fall. N. Y The great Ire bridge that haa choked the river channel chan-nel between tho cataract and the upper up-per steel arch brldife below the full for the lust three weeka, broke from Ha shoring at noon Sunday and went down Ihe river, taking with It lo their death a man and a woman, aald to be Mr. and Mra. Kldrldxe Stanton, ol Toronto, To-ronto, Canada, and llurrell lleactx-k, 17 year old, or Cleveland, O. Four other person were on the Ire at the time, but managed to get ashore In eufrty. The brldKe was considered safe. For week the great fields or Ire had been coming down Ihe river, piling up agalnat the harrier until It waa rrom alxty to eighty root thick and under the Influence of leru wonthcr the great mass had become anchored firmly to lb shore. Tho Jam waa about 1.000 fict wide and In aome places a quarter of a mile In length. For two weeka It had offered snfe passage and Sunduy an Itnmenso crowd or excurslonlHla came to view th winter wonder or the river. Had t ha accident happened an hour later, hundred would have lost their Uvea, for the crowd waa moving Into Proa-pect Proa-pect park In tha elevalora that run down the cliff for th purpose or von twrina out upon th lea. |