NIAGARA UNLOOSED.
SUDDEN THAW SETS IN.
Received January 29, 8.5 a.m. VANCOUVER, Jan. 27,
Niagara Falls were unloosed by a phenomenal thaw of the ice jamb, 100 feet below the falls. Two hundred workers, engaged in an unsuccessful 100-hour day and night battle to disperse the jamb by dynamite, fled to safety as a 25-foot fall of water flooded on to the Government’s previously evacuated hydro-electric plant and caused 500,000 dollars’ damage. GREAT ICE DAM. FEARS FOR POWER-HOUSE. Received January 29, 8.5 'a.m. VANCOUVER, Jan. 27. Great fear is felt that the on-press-ing icestream at Niagara Falls, with the fallen bridge acting as a dam and impounding the bulk of the ice and water, may crush the powerhouse on the American side of the falls, also two bridges downstream and other edifices, with inestimable damage.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 52, 29 January 1938, Page 9
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