A Leap From Niagara Bridge.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 189, 29 January 1887, Page 2

A Leap From Niagara Bridge.

The latest American despatches briny; detailod particulars of the leap by Lawrence M. Douovan from the new suspension bridge at Niagara Falls, being a distance of 210 feet. At an early hour on the 7th inst. Donovan, having partaken of a light break, fast, was clad in shoes with zinc inecleswhich were charged with electricity. lie cays. " When X jumped I closed my eyes, but I opened them again, but did not see anything. My elbows were x;lose to iry side?, aud my feet were elope together. When I struck the water it seemed as though I would burst to pieces, and a eevere electric phock passed through me. 1 sank abont 20 feet under water. I thought I would never rise to the surface again, and when I did float I was dazed almost senseless." Donovan was immediately picked up after he rose by a bo.it waiting in readine&s, and quickly removed on shore, where ho was attacked with a spitting of blcod, and was very weak. His physicians etate that his third rib ie displaced, and that he is likely to euffer from pleurisy, as one lung is injurod. Donovan made a good deal of money over the leap. lie states he would not undertake tne s/ime jump again for a million of dollars. However, ho undertakes to swim tho Niagara Hapida next summer, and wagers he will swim further thcin Kendall did.