Niagara Falls Stops Flowing; It's Frozen, Jan. 30, 1926

Thousands of Persons View Dry Niagara Falls. . . Ice and Zero-Degree Weather Hold Back the Mighty Torrent of Water and Bed Is Dry

Niagara Falls, N.Y., Jan. 29—Thousands of persons today viewed a dry Niagara—one of nature’s rarest spectacles. Only a few gallons of water trickled over the American fall because of the formation of an ice jam from Goat Island to the mainland at Port Day.

The jam began to form a week ago off Port Day where the river is shallow and the ice moves slowly. High winds loosened the ice farther up the river and in Lake Erie, aiding in forming the blockade. The gale Thursday, together with the zero-degree temperature, completed the big dam. The water, which usually slides over the American Falls and drops in a seething mass of foam and spray on the rocks below, was diverged to the Canadian cataract. Under ordinary conditions about 90 per cent of the volume of water passing over the falls goes over the Canadian Falls.

From the front page of The Concord Daily Tribune, Saturday, Jan. 30, 1926 newspapers.digitalnc.org/lccn/sn92073201/1926-01-30/ed-1/seq-1/

To see a photo of the frozen falls, go to: www.bing.com/images/search?q=niagara+falls+frozen+1926&FORM=HDRSC3

Look at it carefully. At a glance it looks like the water is still going over the falls, but you’re seeing ice, not flowing water.