From the Niagara Falls Review:
The rusty scow – perched on a small piece of land in the Niagara River about 2,500 feet above the Horseshoe Falls -is a reminder of what could have been.
Today it remains an icon for millions of tourists, easily visible from shore stranded on its perch just above the falls.
It was just around 3 p. m. on Aug. 6, 1918 when a tug owned by the Great Lakes Dredge and Dock Co. of Buffalo struck a sandbar, colliding with enough force to snap the line, causing the unnamed vessel it was pulling to drift toward the brink of the falls.