A Hazardous Feat.
Carlsle D. Graham has successfully navigated the whirlpool rapids below Niagara in a barrel. The feat was witnessed by 7000 or 8000 people, who lined both banks of the gorge and the bridge. After the closing of tho trap on the end of the barrel, which was about nine foot m length, bound with iron hoops, and heavily ballasted in one end with lead, :t was lowed out to about midstream by a row-boat, and cut loose, It was caught in Ibo eddy for about twenty minutes, finally being caught in the current downstream. In the rapids it was tossed like a cork up high in the air and was then completely submerged under the great breakers through the gorge. Some seconds later it shot into the malestrom of |the pool. The current carried it clear across the side of the pool to Thompson’s Point on the Canodian shore, where it was caught by boys and towed ashore. The trap was opened, and Graham, who was in a dazed condition and a semi-con-scious state for want of air, was taken out and brought back to life again.
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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 28 September 1901, Page 4
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190A Hazardous Feat. Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 28 September 1901, Page 4
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