1905

July 18  Carlisle Graham and William Glover swam the Lower Rapids on the
Niagara River in a race. Glover won. This was Graham's last stunt at
Niagara Falls.


1908

July 1  Bobby Leach jumps from the Upper Steel Arch Bridge at Niagara
Falls with a parachute.


1910

September 18:  Klaus Larsen successfully shoots the Whirlpool Rapids on
the Niagara River in a motorboat.

September 24  Bobby Leach successfully shoots the Whirlpool Rapids on the
Niagara River in a steel barrel. Intended to complete the journey through
the Lower Rapids the following day, but William "Red" Hill senior takes
the barrel and shoots the Lower Rapids instead of Leach.


1911

June 25  Lincoln Beachey flies over Niagara Falls and then under the Upper
Steel Arch Bridge in a Curtiss biplane.

June 28 Bobby Leach shoots the Whirlpool Rapids on the Niagara River in a
steel barrel. Later sends the empty barrel over Niagara Falls to test it
prior to attempting to shoot the falls himself. The barrels makes it over
okay, but the top came off and it sinks.

July 25 Bobby Leach successfully shoots Niagara Falls in a a new steel
barrel, the second person to attempt it. Conflicting accounts as to how
serious his injuries are in doing it.

October 28, 29  Klaus Larsen successfully shoots the Whirlpool Rapids on
the Niagara River in a motorboat.


1912

February 4  Burrell Hecock of Cleveland and Mr. & Mrs. Eldridge Stanton of
Toronto drowned when the ice bridge at Niagara Falls breaks up.


1913

October 23 Peter W. Langgaard successfully shoots the Whirlpool Rapids on
the Niagara River in a motorboat.


1918

June 9  International Railway Company's Buffalo - Niagara Falls high speed
interurban line opened to traffic.

August 6 William Red Hill assists in the rescue of Gustav Lofbeg and James
A. Harris when the scow they were on being used to dredge a power canal in
Niagara Falls, NY, breaks loose from its tow and gets stranded just above
Horseshoe Falls. The rusting scow can still be seen today.

Peter D.A. Warwick
St.Catharines, Ontario, Canada
Bike Through The Garden Of Canada
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