1873 Friday, July 4th, a young man and woman, and a boy twelve years of age, brother of the latter, hired a boat in Chippewa, ostensibly for a sail on the river. Not understanding the currents, they were drawn into the rapids and carried over the Horseshoe Fall. The bodies were not recovered. It was afterward ascertained that the young man had taken $500 from his father, in Ohio; had come to Chippewa to meet the young woman, who was from Toronto, to whom he was married on the day preceding their death. 1874 September 19th, a young man connected with the Mohawk Institute, at Brantford, Canada--whether as student or instructor was not known--walked deliberately into the rapids above Table Rock, and was carried over the precipice, never to be seen again. 1875 September 8th, Captain John Jones--at that time marine surveyor for a New York insurance company--jumped into the rapids below Goat Island Bridge, and went over the cliff, before the eyes of many excursionists. Ill-health was supposed to be the cause. The body was not found. 1877 March 5th, Mr. G. Homer Stone, aged twenty-four, a school-teacher, living near Geneva, N. Y., leaped into the rapids, near the upper end of Prospect Park, and was carried over the Falls. The body was not recovered. --July 1st, three men went out in a sail-boat from Connor's Island, during a high wind and very rough water. Attempting a starboard tack, in order to reach Gill Creek Island, the boat was upset, and two of them--after the three had tried in vain to right the boat, and found it difficult to keep their hold--abandoned it and tried to swim ashore; but, owing to the rough sea and their wet and heavy clothing, they were soon exhausted, and went to the bottom. The third man, divesting himself of everything except his pantaloons, determined to swim for the nearest land the down-floating boat should pass. Fortunately, a large boat, manned by three sturdy oarsmen, coming up the river, rescued him, after he had become nearly exhausted. Three days after the accident one of the bodies was found near Grass Island, above the Falls, and the other, two days later, in the Whirlpool below. 1877 October 16th, the discovery in the morning of several articles of female apparel on a flat rock, near the site of the old stone tower, and close to the brink of the Falls, led to investigation, which developed the fact that Miss Schofield, a young woman from Woodstock, in Canada, while suffering from a sudden attack of brain fever, had thrown herself into the rapids, and gone over the Horseshoe Fall. She was a skillful telegrapher, and had some local literary reputation. Her body was never recovered.