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Thousands of people have gone over Niagara Falls, either intentionally (as stunts or suicide attempts) or accidentally. The first recorded person to survive going over the falls was school teacher Annie Edson Taylor, who in 1901 successfully completed the stunt inside an oak barrel. In the following 124 years, thousands of people have been ...
Steven Trotter (November 13, 1960 – October 14, 2022) was an American daredevil who at age 24 became the youngest person to have gone over Niagara Falls in a barrel. He was one of a few people to perform the stunt twice. He also performed other illegal stunts. [2] [3] He died unexpectedly in 2022. [1]
Nathan Boya (July 28, 1924 – August 8, 2022; real name William Fitzgerald) was the first African American to go over Niagara Falls. Very little is known about Fitzgerald. He claimed to be self-employed, but others have claimed he worked for IB
The Niagara Falls Police Department will take over the investigation from here. New York City on ‘enhanced’ security today Thursday 23 November 2023 14:20 , Ariana Baio
A woman and two children, including an infant, died at Niagara Falls after crossing the safety guard rails, New York State Police said. On Oct. 28, at approximately 9 p.m.,
Chianti climbed over a four-foot guardrail Monday night at Luna Island to get to the precipice from which she would lead her children to their demise. The view of the Niagara Falls from New York ...
In 2023, another mother jumped with her son into the Niagara Gorge, just down river from the falls. That mother died in the fall, but rescuers were able to save the five-year-old boy.
The locomotive engineer and four people in the waiting room died. [40] [41] Marathon derailment: 10 July 1910: near Marathon, Ontario: 3: 0: CP 694 derailed and fell into Lake Superior, killing its three crew members. The wreck of the locomotive was discovered by divers in the mid-2010s. [42] McKellar derailment: 25 June 1913: McKellar, Ottawa ...