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The Niagara Scow View of the Toronto Power House with the scow in the background, 1922. The Niagara Scow (also called the Old Scow or Iron Scow) is the unofficial name of the wreck of a small scow that brought two men perilously close to plunging over the Horseshoe Falls, the largest of the Niagara Falls, in 1918.
Horseshoe Falls [26] Leach, who had performed with Barnum & Bailey Circus, [27] went over the falls in a metal barrel and subsequently spent six months in the hospital recovering from two broken knee caps and a fractured jaw. [1] 11 July 1920: Charles Stephens: Fatality: Horseshoe Falls [28] Stephens, from Bristol in the UK, went over the falls ...
Stranded on the Canadian side of Niagara River above Horseshoe Falls. Scotiadoc Canada: 20 June 1953 Rammed by the freighter Burlington in heavy fog off Trowbridge Island, near the Sleeping Giant: HMS Speedy Royal Navy: 8 October 1804
Several witnesses reported seeing the mystery woman in the water on Goat Island just above Horseshoe Falls — the largest of the three waterfalls that collectively make up Niagara Falls ...
A tour boat capsized inside a cave 20 miles from Niagara Falls on Monday morning.. Lockport Police said that passengers were on board the Lockport Cave & Underground tour boat when it overturned ...
People were waving their cell phone flashlights desperately from atop a boat stuck on a sand bank. The suspected smugglers grabbed black tubes, possibly life jackets, and jumped into the water to ...
The larger Horseshoe Falls is about 790 m (2,590 ft) wide, while the American Falls is 320 m (1,050 ft) wide. The distance between the American extremity of Niagara Falls and the Canadian extremity is 1,039 m (3,409 ft). The peak flow over Horseshoe Falls was recorded at 6,370 m 3 /s (225,000 cu ft/s). [5]
Several boats, lying on their sides, are stuck in the muddy marsh between the river and Bay Street. Tropical Storm Helene ran the vessels, most of them sailboats, aground there on Sept. 27.