OVER NIAGARA FALLS IN A RUBBER SUIT.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 2275, 8 November 1889, Page 2

OVER NIAGARA FALLS IN A RUBBER SUIT.

Grah&m'e foat of passing Niagara m a barrel was surpua ed tba other day by a man called Steve Bredie. Lie went over m a rubber BU.t, aud escaped alive. About daylight on a reosnt Baturday he went to a point about cix hundred feet above the Falls, accompanied by two friends. Tjbey padded his body heavily with cotton and sarrounded it with steel bands, and then puiled over all a rubber Buit, and finally placed bim m the water with two paddies, with which he was to keep himßelC upright and steer. He was whirled rapidly to and over the ft alia. His friends were watching belo-r. For fully tiro minutes after he first disappeared he remained invisible amid the mist and foam at the foot of the JB'alls. Suddenly a small black spot was seen tossing like a cork m the seething mass of watersj whisked first to the American shore, then to the Canadian Bide at a bewildering speed. As it Beared the latter a man plun<ed m, and casting a rope about Brodle, pulled him ashore. Ho was insensible, and blood waa oozing from his ears, noeo, nnd mouth, fie was stripped and given ' brandy and ammonia, and slowly recovered oonsoiousnees. He la very seriously injured. He was saon afterwards arrested / by the < Oanadian authorities on a charge of attempting^ to commit suicide, but released on giving bonds not to try the trip again within a> y«ar.