Title

Winter sporting on the ice mountain Niagara Falls New York

Description

from a stereo image by Underwood & Underwood

en-CA Three persons, a man, a woman and a youth went to their deaths yesterday afternoon when the ice bridge at Niagara Falls, which every winter spans the lower gorge between the American Falls and the upper steel arch bridge, broke from its moorings and floated down the river. The dead...Burrel Hecock of East 117th Street Cleveland Ohio, Eldridge Stanton of 19 Nanton Avenue Toronto, member of the firm Stanton & Wilson, Stationers and Printers, 50 Yonge Street, and Mrs Eldridge Stanton wife of above. Hecock lost his life in a futile attempt to assist the man in an attempt to save his wife. He might have followed his chum Ignatius Roth, also of Cleveland to safety before the bridge disintegrated but as he was then assisting the man with the woman before he realized it the bridge had broken into pieces and Hecock found himself on the small floe of ice, floating down the river. Niagara Falls Gazette, February 1912

en-CA Negative available

Identifier

http://www.nflibrary.ca/nfplindex/show.asp?b=1&ref=oo&id=89371

Medium

Photograph

Extent

4.75" x 6" black & white

Provenance

Earl Brydges Public Library, Niagara Falls, N.Y.

Date

1902

Is Part Of

Niagara Falls Heritage Foundation Collection

locator

v.17 p.10

Rights Holder

1902

Rights

Earl W. Brydges Public Library

Subject

Niagara River - Ice

Niagara River - Lower

Niagara Falls - General

Spatial Coverage

Canada - Ontario

number

D10200

Format

Photograph

Date Created

2002-08-24

Date Modified

2005-02-03