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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.

Picture, 1938
Canada - Ontario - Niagara Falls - Power Plants

Picture, Date Unknown
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.

Picture, 1938
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.

Picture, 1938
Canada - Ontario - Niagara Falls - Power Plants

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.

Picture, 1938

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