New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1846-03-18
Terrible Calamity nj Buffalo.
500, 600 Worth Of Proprtu D,s,rou,d

slVUiuOo worm OF properly DESTROYED
From the Rochester Daily Adv. Extra Of Msrchl5
We are informed by passenger WHO left But
ao this morning that thst city visited By fearful
calamity last evening al O'Clock About thu, time the
ice in the Creek gave way and came down Ike perfect
avalanche carrying every thing before il Between the
foot Main and the Lake there IS or
20 Genial Boats every Of which had disappeared 10
oue knew whittier but !, is supposed. were suned
together between The sesm5osts and completely dc.
molishsd.
The steamers United 'Ststes 'W.coEs.n Chsu;auque.
Ffsnkfo5: indian Queen, and two or three Others
greatly injured The Chautsaoue had the upper
entirely carried away and torn 10 pieces.
Every steamboat; lying in the Creek was more less
injured. except the Clinton and Indiana
The Rochester breketwo cables sind dashed down the
Creek WIKI fearful velocity carrying every thing before
her savuc in portion OF tie dock and row lies partly
under the dock The injury done this alone
|, said will amour. TO several thousand dollars
About % schooners were lying in the Creek and every
Que them has been greatly damaged completely
demolished
The steamer Dole went down the stream about fo.ly
rods stove in a portion of her hull and sunk
The propeers lying in the Creek were al badly ciSr.
ed some OF them damaged 10 considerable amount
Il was generally supposed when our informant left
that there were considerable number OF individuals Oh
board ofthe canal boats which have disappeared. fso
the loss lie board these and the steamers must 20
great.
OF course impossible os;mse, with any degses
OF accuracy the damage done bu, is supposed to 90
not less than Ore Hundred Thousand Dollars
TIE RlvER.-During the rain OF Friday night
last, the ice in the river broke and passed Of witbou,
causing any danags,he water net being very hgd snd
the ice beinc y,uch weakened by the previous wsrrn
weather The is probably open from South Hsdley
Fslls st ea.,) 10 its mouth lSpriugheld Repub
FREsHEv AT E,vERHuL.-We learn that very
serious freshe occurred on the Merrimsck and Little
River Hsyc.hl, last nigh, between eight aud twelve
o'clock The waters of these rivers having become
damned ~ by huce piles of ice. rose hight unpre.
codonrcd within the recollection Of the Oldest iuhab
ant, with fearful rapidly flooding the streets filing
the lower stories OF factories and houses boating of
work shops barns snd small buildings OF various kinds
aud carrying away Little River Bridge from us fouud,
ton ana completely demolishingit
. time it seemed almost certain that the Hsverh
Bridge BE- carried away by the eshet and had the
continued 20 rise for few minutes longer that
bridge and the Boston and Maine Railroad bridge mus,
have been swept of. At one time the waters as
high the second story OF ta,es factory. Little RE-
When the ,e, this morning. Of the stree,s
nsvigsted in boats although the in tie river
was rapidly falling. Boston Jour. Monday.
~ The Richmond Compiler mentions the death
in Cumberland County (Va) OF SyfaN Brown. aged one
hundred and fifteen years four months and zee days He
for many years the slave and personal Of
John Randolph Esq Of MattosS father OF the late John
Randolph of Roanoke