We, the undersigned, master and mate of the Steamer “Maid of the Mist,”
plying on the Niagara River immediately below the Falls of Niagara, do
hereby certify that on the 24th day of October, 1901, about 4 o’clock
p. m., we being on board our boat directly under the Horseshoe Falls,
saw a barrel come over the brink and drift down the heavy current close
to the Canadian shore, fetching up in Bass rock eddy, it being about a
quarter of a mile below the Horseshoe Falls. We saw the barrel taken
from the water and the person of a woman taken from the barrel, and who
(contrary to our expectations) was alive, and we confidently believe
her to be the only human being that ever went over the Falls of Niagara
and lived, and we can certify that the woman known to us since as Mrs.
A. E. Taylor was the person taken out of the barrel.
R. R. CARTER,
Master S. S. “Maid of the Mist.”
WILLIAM THOMAS,
Mate, “Maid of the Mist.”