Show k I 1 N F TO WIN MEET 9 he tried to sirim the rapids and 0 le nearly lost his ilia life K I 1 I 1 ek maian CONCERT 11 I 1 bpettit by ne ile thial aner imer lea the crealese Crea Creat lest country oa on earth 1 to bancroft J I 1 humped I 1 is gwim tie the biumi k FALLS july 4 john L scales of alich today to day ij attempted ted lot id swim the whirlpool aftem rapids S samuel smith of louisson Lou islon iston I 1 lyv N X Y was as to have none gone through with I 1 him in a row boat but flanked h miny many hundred hundreds of people here were on the I 1 bridges and bank soulee the wa ter at p in near the cantilever 4 ti 11 ever bridge on the the canadian side clad in ina a wool shirt and trunks and cork vest at 3 20 be he came around the abutments of the bridge aid waa was to bcd like a cork in the volume of water wh which V h there forced itself r 41 through the sorges gorges when he escaped ases ped this current be he bad had a comparatively easy timeto time to the railway sas suspension pension bridge at t which the swift current 1 once more caught him and swept him I 1 under the bridga like a flash below this arfi ge there are two lonk long rocks A breaker carried him over one and the spec ra expected to see him 14 dashed against the other and killed a lusk luok favoran him however how the current en una unx him partially around and he pushed away from the rock wi wih it his bands then another large arge br breaker e slier caus causal causa A him to turn tarn a bonier sa U lt submerging Bub merging him for a short time and then keeping him stationary in an eddy the spectators thought be was gone but be soon swam out and when near the whirlpool rapids and the incline railway was into an a 2 eddy near the th abort shore with V i t t L the e assistance 0 ui adv bavo ha he scrambled oat ot on tha the roke risks in a greatly exhausted I 1 condition ila hid a cut oa the left foot and a terrible gash in the left I 1 leg above the knee which disabled him BO a be he could not riot walk these injuries be he received when dashed 41 a big rock lie ile said however be he would continua continue bis his trip I 1 through the whirlpool if ha hs manager desired but the latter refused it is fortunate for be was washed ashore for had lie gone through the i whirlpool in bis his condition he would fa arely surely have been killed |