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Show soft dirt. He saw no way to relieve the condition. The water that Is now passing over the falls is backing up In the lower rher. There are large fields of Ice In the river above the rapids, and it Is passing over the falls at the rate of thousands of tons u second. At Lewlston, there la a large mound of Ice probably eighty feet above the normal water level and endangering the Cornell house located far above the river. PERIL "AT NIAGARA " FALLS Engineer Knows of No Way to Relieve Ice Jam Niagara Falls, April 21. Thousands of tons of broken ice. piled In a confused con-fused mass in the mouth of the Niagara Ni-agara river, where It flows Into Lake Ontario today, threaten the Lewistou suspension bridge which its eighty-five feet above the normal level of the river. Moving ponderously before a tremendous pressure of water, the mass of Ice is Hclng off the river f-rabanliiDcnt, as It passes and threatens threat-ens serious damage to some of the hotels ho-tels on the river bank, ordinarily high above the water. Great fields 'of ice are pouring over Niagara Falls, constantly con-stantly adding to the accumulation, which clogs' the exit of the river Into LaUe Ontario. This increases the height of the mound of Ice at Lewis-ton Lewis-ton which already is nearly a hundred feet above the usual level of the river. Niagara Falls. April 21. The tsltua-J tsltua-J tlon hore today ij perilous. Col. James , R. Price. In charge of the Buffalo office of-fice of the United States engineer I corps, says the department Is helpless I to render any assistance at Iewiston and Youngslown. He Inspected the conditions on Sunday and found th? ice at the mouth of the river at least 75 inches In thickness. Dynamite, Col. Price declared, would make as much impression as If exploded lu |