The Niagara Falls Ice Bridge Disaster
Added 2021-05-25 10:15:00 +0000 UTCFor a disaster that took place more than 100 years ago, the collapse of the Niagra Falls ice bridge is actually very well-documented... which made this an easy video to research! It's not often there are so many details available about something which happened so long ago.
One source I really wanted to share is this one. It tells the story in a very evocative way, using extracts taken from the newspapers of the time.
Some of the details are really quite startling. There's a story about a dog being rescued from a shack on one of the other ice floes, and a report on Burrell Hecock's last words (at least, his last words to anyone who survived the incident) - a plea not to tell his mother how he died.
