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NIAGARA ROAR IS SILENCED
ICE JAM REDUCES IT TO A WHISPER-ENTIRE FLOW MAY BE CUT OFF
[Welland Tribune, 18 January 1940]
Niagara Falls, N.Y., Jan.18-An ice jam in the Upper Niagara River reduced the roar of Niagara Falls to a hoarse whisper today.
Tracey Levee, chief of the Niagara Reservation Police, estimated the flow over the American Falls had been reduced 60 percent, while the Bridal Veil Falls were slowed to a trickle.
Meanwhile the ice bridge over the Canadian Horseshoe Falls extended from the foot of that cataract to a point just below the site of the “Honeymoon” Bridge, destroyed by ice in January 1938.
Rivermen predicted that if near zero temperatures and the run of Lake Erie ice continues, the entire flow over the Falls may be cut off. This occurred in the winter of 1936, when it was possible for a brief period to walk across the brink of the American Falls from the mainland to Goat Island.
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