Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1854-01-27
Destruction Of Coal Boats.

EFFEcT OF THE SroRM SUNDAY NIaur ON THE
n i.IH night was cold and stormy. The
steamers and coal boats exposed oil the river that
a nignt encountered severe gale, tempestuous
storm oil wind and sleet. 81
Steamers that could be sheltered were secnrea
10 the sh' re, while the coal boats attempted to
seoute hofpors 10 save them from the waves that
threatened 10 engulph them.
10 'he steamers descending the river, navigation
was uecidedly perilous, the storm swept up the
liver, piercing cold, and with unwoned violence.
The steame, Allegheny, from Pittsburgh, at the
v ., oil the storm, took refuge at the
whati al Maysville, and by the fury of the wind
was IN danger of being blown from her moorings,
Snl fortunately weathered the storm. Robinscoal
ooat' lying near by, was swamped, and the crew
escaped with their lives by means of skils 10 the
Allegheny.
Capt. Smith, with the steamer Lake Erie, tow
ing down 6 ]barges loaded with coal, sunk one of
them containing 900 bushels, while attempting
10 reach shore in the storm, sunday night, so miles
above the city. ~ Z l5as#s
The Louisville mail boat laid by some two hours
a aI od-yard, above Warsaw, 60 miles below
this city. The. storm there was exceedingly furi-
GUS the air being filled like fog with driving seet
OF nail that made the night one OF great su ering.
The woodward man reported that a pairo Of coal
ooats hau been: swampsd and sunk near the place,
on which there hud been a crew of 8 men, 6 Of
whom were then known.to have escaped, soon af-
Ter another hoated by, the crew of which were
crying lor help. Assistance was sent butlthe re-
suit is not known.
AS the subject OF fuel is one of great public in
terest, have taken pains 10 learn some particu-
lars IN reference 10 the supply, aud the unprece-
dented misiortunes that have attended the ship
ments already made to this market. II
We learn that the facilites for running coal by
boats TO this and the markets below preclude the
possibility Of more than 160 pairs of boals being
loaded aud manned. la =TT.,s,} II fs4. =
The unparalleled destruction of ithose already
started may be judged of from wha, was known
| on Friday last.
Up to that time intelligence had been received
here of the loss of 43 boats, as follows: Robbins,
| s.; x w Whigan, 1; D Galway, 2; @ bravo, p,
Harrison, Il; Brown, Q; T Kirk,I; Peterson q;
Mckee, 4; Il Murray, 1; at Blacks Island, s.;
W lison' 2; at Lock No |, on Monnony river, 2; +
Faucet, 2; of tow-boat Hornet at Mar,insv,iie, i;
baksr' l.; Carney. Q; Mnnus O'Donald.p /;
Riley Rupert, 2; at Beach Bottom, @; at Muslas
pha's Island. l; McLean,2.
Since then we learn that on Friday night, above
Wheeling, John O'Niel & Co., lost 3: I sam.
place harvey Neil and Hugh Kane, i each: at
Wheeling, sunk, and MIR. Boyle drowned; also
one each OF II. Neil, Mr.. Brown and NJ. bravo &
Son.
All ofthis fleet left Pittsburgh last Sunday week.
and only i've pair reached here Sunday alter Ger.
tam destruction has already been visited on fifty
i've OF those already stated. Further news, it is
| feared, will increase the list
We learn that y pair of boats belonging to
MeSsrs. Davis & Sons, in endeavorrng 10 land ON
SuS day night at New Richmond, were forced
against the steamboat Lancaster. One Ean was
thrown overheard, and nearly perished with cold.
The line was lost, and three me left on the steam
CT. The boats with part OF the crew, passed on,
| andNsunk at Palestine bar. LIS
One pair of boats sunk at Moscow, one pair of
Watson's at Charleston Bar, and one pair al New
Richmond. Two boats, we learn, were lately SINK
Ill tow of the steamer J. B. Guthrie.
| The news by the Helen Mar is. that in addit on
10 the losses specified above, l. & w. higgam
lost one boat on Sunday night, above Ripley, aud
ihos. McGlll had one sunk at the same place.
| n hNaf halo tatNt tsH Uyats
Piloted ny Chas. Reed, sunk, and one man " as
diowned. The boats sunk at Sugar Creek, above
warsaw, were not Bakers, but were the barges Of
a. Holmes. The mail boat this morning will give
we hope, the grateful information that the men
missing we've not drowned.-C Cincinnati Gazette,
! Tuesday.
| GALE on THE RIvER.-Coal Boats Sunk--I.oss
| IF Life, Se.--The Allegheny, while on her tr,p
downward from Pittsburgh on sunday night, when
near Richmond, overlook several coal boats in
sinking condition, the crews having deserted the
wreck. 1t was showing hard at the time, with the
wind blowing perfect hurricane. The boat hove
too, on hearing the cries of several men in skf,
who were taken on board and provided Tor. They
proved TO be part OF tie crew of the boats, and
were gu tferIng severely from the cold when picked
| up, being badly frozen. fsr .s..r.t rs it-
| The Ben Franklin, from Louisville, when near
| Warsaw, about one O'clock yesterday morning,
met a couple of sunken coal barges. The crew,
| thirteen i'll number, had taken to tie SklfTs, aud
SIX were received on board OF the boats, viii the
! balance seven in number, persisted from fatigue on
| the stormy waters. The men shouted, but the
snow falling thick and fast, deta ned the bout
some lime in finding Them The waves rolled
| high at the time. From all accounts. the night
was unusually stormy, and we fear disastrous 10
our fiat and coal boatmen. s-5rsa
The Scotia arrived from Portsmouth,, this morn,
ing al one o'clock. We learn that couple o.
coal boats were wrecked below Portsmouth, du-
ring the storm of Sunday night, and ten out of SIX
teen of the crew were drowned. The surviving
SIX were picked up in an open boat, by the ..u-
name crew of the Scotia.-Cin. Columbian