DEATH DIVE AT NIAGARA.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3502, 14 June 1920, Page 6

DEATH DIVE AT NIAGARA.

TRAGEDY CAUSED BY A WO- - LOSS OF NERVE.

N EVV YORK.

A triple tragedy took place at Niagara Falls. A motor car, driven by a. woman, went over the Niagara Gorge Bank just below the Falls, and plung—ed 150 feet to a bank’ below near Whirlpool Rapids. The ca.l' was driven by Mrs Ed-na. Diel, a. well-known resident. of Niagara Falls. Wit.h her werc'ller three-year-olfl daughter Katherine, her mother, Mrs. Lyall, -and her nine-year-old nephew, Kenneth Kruger}.

l They were passing along a street [running parallel with the gorge when .I\/Irs Diel apparently 10St- control of [the car, which crashed through a hedge, and ran over the lawn bordering the gorge. The horrified spectators >houted to her to turn the steering-whee}. She apparently became confused. and ;‘:':‘: her foot on the a.cc-olex-atux-. Tlw .--.r:bounded forwzlrd an-1 shot o\'er {:l9 edge of the gorge. Mrs Die], the girl, and the 1116. were thrown from 111:: («anon the path leading to the landing stage of the Maid of the Mist, The small steamer-.which takes toul'isfs on the water just below the falls. The motor car bounded fifty feet. further down with Mrs Lyall in it, and turned over.

Catherine Diel and Mrs Lyall were killed instantly. Mrs Diel died in the hospital, and the boy Kenneth was badly injured. He is, however, expected to recover.