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Niagara power houses face big loss from ice jam; Emergency crews are on duty at all Niagara River powerhouses to fight the worst ice jam since 1909.

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Picture, 1938

What Niagara's ice did is one power house; This exclusive picture; the first one taken; graphically shows what the ice did to the interior of the old Ontario power plant at the foot of the Horseshoe Falls.

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Picture, 1938

New floes sweep over falls to add weight to jam squeezing 700-foot building; Ice blocks are pouring over the Horseshoe Falls at Niagara again to-day as rising winds blow down Lake Erie.

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Picture, 1938

Niagara power house entrance; Floodwater gouged out this 12-foot hole in the jam ice which almost buries the Ontario Power Co. plant below the Horseshoe Falls. Like Concrete; ice blocks are wedged to second-storey windows.

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Picture, 1938

Canada - Ontario - Niagara Falls - Power Plants

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Picture, 1938

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