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Great Gorge Adventure
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Ice Bridge Tragedy
On February 4, 1912, the ice bridge across the Niagara river, with dozens of tourists on it broke loose below the American Falls. Three people were unable to get to shore. A honeymoon couple Mr & Mrs Eldridge Stanton of Toronto and Burrel Heacock of Cleveland, Ohio. The Stantons are shown in this sketch as the ice floe they were on entered the whirlpool rapids, just before the floe broke up tossing them into the water where they drowned.
