Books: Niagara Falls Disasters- T.W. Kriner

"Journeys To The Brink of Doom" and "In The Mad Water" are two great books by author T.W. Kriner about strange events and tragedies that have occurred at Niagara Falls.

Kriner gets in to the fact that the Falls are beautiful, and how that many go there for a honeymoon, or vacation.  But the Falls are sad and tragic to others.  People have traveled here simply to go over the Falls in their last act of living.

The books are very well written and obviously go together.

The stories in the books are all memorable.  The one that stays with me the most involved the the two men in 1918 who realized their scow was about to go over the Falls.  They wedged their boat in a way that stopped it form moving and were noticed.  They spent hours on the boat hoping that it would not go over, as rescue attempts were made.  At the time they did not realize that the boat was very safely stuck there.  In fact, it is still there almost a century later.

There is a timeline of daredevil stunts that have happened at the falls too.

I assume most of the notable tragedies, accidents, stunts, and acts of heroism associated with Niagara Falls are covered in these two books.