STRANGE PHENOMENON AT THE FALLS OF NIAGARA.

Globe, Volume VI, Issue 611, 3 June 1876, Page 3

STRANGE PHENOMENON AT THE FALLS OF NIAGARA.

The New York Herald slides that the tern nest which raged in the neighborhood of Buffalo and Toronto on the lOlh and 11th of March effected a most remarkable change in the appearance of the Falls of Niagara. For two days the falls presented a most remarkable sight. The large rocks at the foot of the fabs upon the American side, which are generally covered with water to the depth of fifteen or twenty feet, were laid bare, and Glassbrook, a guide, whose name will be familiar to most of those who have visited Niagara during the last thirty years, asserted that he could have walked from the entrance to the “ Shadow of the Rook” to the Cave of the Winds,” opposite to the American falls. Between Goat Island and Prospect Park, below the suspension bridge, where the current generally runs at the rate of twenty miles an hour, the water was blown back towards the f ills with such force by the wind that the stream might have been crossed on horseback. But the great Horse Sho« Fall, on the Canada side, was the most affected by the storm, for it lost more than two-thirds of its immense volume of water, and was reduced to the proportions of a millstream. Above Table Rock, and as far as Street’s Island, the stream was for more than four hundred feet almost dry, and several people c o«d from the American to the Canadian shore without wetting their feet.