Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1901 — Over the Falls and Lives. [ARTICLE]

Over the Falls and Lives.

Quite a number of persons, in various kinds of crafts, have gone through the rapids and whirl-pool below Niagara Falls and came out alive, and from their experience had grown quite a general but wholly erronious belief that people had thus gone over the falls them* selves and lived. This feat however, was never accomplished by mortal man or woman until last Thursday when Mrs. A. E. Taylor, of Michigan, placed herself in a peculiar shaped barrel and was turned adrift in the Niagara river above the falls. She drifted down and passed over the Horse Shoe Fall, dropping a distance of 158 feet, and was taken out practically uninjured. She says the riches of the world would not induce her to attempt the feat again.