Title

Great ice mountain and crevasses below the American Falls, Niagara Falls, U.S.A.

Description

from a stereo image by Underwood & Underwood

en-CA The floe with the couple apparently kneeling in prayer floated over several of the larger waves of the rapids and then another floe struck it and the couple passed from view and were not seen again. Young Hecock preceeded them by several minutes. He too succeeded in grasping the rope dangling from the cantilever bridge and held on to it for a few seconds while the men at the other end pulled away with almost superhuman effort. When they had lifted the lad some eighty feet he let go and fell with a thud that could be heard from the bridge. He struck face downward, but was seen to rise and stagger to his feet, leaving a large boold stain on the ice. He then disappeared as did the couple. Hecock was only seventeen years old. Niagara Falls Gazette. February 1912.</userdefined>

en-CA Negative available

Identifier

http://www.nflibrary.ca/nfplindex/show.asp?b=1&ref=oo&id=89372

Medium

Photograph

Extent

4.5" x 5.5" 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.11

Rights Holder

1902

Rights

Earl W. Brydges Public Library

Subject

Niagara River - Ice

Niagara River - Lower

Niagara Falls - General

Niagara Falls - American Falls

Spatial Coverage

Canada - Ontario

number

D10202

Format

Photograph

Date Created

2002-08-24

Date Modified

2005-01-20