She had taken her pet fox terrier along with her and the dogs nose had become stuck in the barrels only air hole.

I was just about to quote from the same thing, warbaby.

When the barrel was recovered and brought to shore, Maude Willard was dead. Her pet dog jumped out of the barrel uninjured. The dog survived the ordeal by putting its nose to the only air hole the barrel had allowing the dog to breathe which resulted in Willard suffocating to death.

I'm actually surprised how many survived.

I was at Niagara on 4 July and saw Jay Cochrane walk between two buildings a few hundred feet up. It was one of those things that you don't want to watch, but can't not look. It made me feel quite ill but I couldn't stop watching.