FIREMEN RESCUE TWO MEN.
i AFTER TRYING STRUGGLE AT Ij NIAGARA. ® Niagara Falls, N.Y. Two men in a small boat were rescued at the brink of the rapids above the falls after a struggle of three hours. The pair, .William E. Galley and Philip A. Williams, lost an oar while on the river and drifted towards the rapids. Fortunately they bumped a crib, to which they clung. Dark- ? ness had fallen, but their cries were »heard and the alarm 'given. The fire departments on both sides of the riv.er put searchlights into play and hundreds of automobiles faced tiie river bank in a .vain effort to locate the men, whose cries could .be heard. The illumination lights of the cataract were turned on and men were sfa- ) tioned on the Goat Island bridge ta rescue the victims should they be swept towards tiie falls. Alter three hours, when the men had not been located, a motor-boat crew of firemen volunteered to skirt the rapids. They found the pair clinging to the crib and brought them safely to land.
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Otaki Mail, 11 January 1922, Page 4
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