A Daring Rescue (August 1, 1953)

ID: 683 ~ Source: Image courtesy of the Texas Collection, Baylor University ~ Creator: Jimmy Willis of the Waco News-Tribune
This file appears in: Lovers' Leap
A Daring Rescue (August 1, 1953)

Police rescue thirteen-year-old Milton Ker from a tree on the side of the 75-foot cliff at Lovers' Leap. Ker and a friend were about halfway down the cliff trying to retrieve a lost baseball cap. As Ker tried to climb back up, rocks and dirt began falling on him. Holding the rope is patrolman A. P. Vahalik.

This file appears in: Lovers' Leap

By Prisca Bird
A picturesque limestone bluff situated high above the Bosque River, Lovers’ Leap is as dangerous as it is beautiful. On June 28, 1917, the Cameron family purchased a tract of sixty acres featuring the cliff area known as Lovers’ Leap. Though it had…