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Show TRIP OVER FALLS PROVES FATAL Briton Fails to Appear After Going Over Niagara in Barrel. Niagara Falls. Charles G. Stephens Steph-ens of Bristol, England, was killed Sunday when he went over the Horseshoe Horse-shoe falls in a barrel. The cask in which he made the trip, though built of stout Russian oak slaves and bound with steel hoops, was smashed like an eggshell. Pieces of the barrel bar-rel were picked up near the hank on the Canadian side, but Stephens' body has not been recovered. River men say that it may not come to the stir-face stir-face for a week or ten (fays. |