Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-02-26
Discejiapeous.

Nisceiiapeous.
Breaking mp of the Ice at Cincin.
mati..Six Steamers Wrecked.
Accidents and Incidents.
After several feints and false starts the
ice in the Ohio River at Cincinnati, broke
up for good Thursday afternoon. Great in
terest was manifested by the citizens, an6
thousands lined the shores, decks of steam
ers, DC. The damage was not SO great a.
q similar occasion, the oath of last Febru
ary, but is nevertheless severe. The los:
falls mostly upon the owDers of the wreck
ed boats, as only one of the six was insured
We copy the following details from the Ga
zette..
At Fulton, below the Marine Railway
there were number of steamers laying ur
in the bend. The ice raked these boats
terribly, sinking three of them, and forcing
several on shore The sunken boats are
the Gipsy, an Arkansas boat, valued at
$4,000, no insurance. She will prove a
total wreck. The A. w. Quarter, valued
at $4,000, owned by Capt johnson, in
sured for $4,000. She had on board
about 100 tons groceries for Kanawa river,
all of which is badly damaged. The steam
er may be saved, but she is in very dan
gerous position, with the ice gorged up
around her. The little steamer James
Watt was lying next below, and was stove
in by the guards of the Quarter. She is
an old boat, and worth about 81, 900. No
insurance. The steamer Nat Holmes was
forced on shore, and We think is not at all
damaged.
MORE BOATS WRECKED.
The next movement of the ice was about
II o'clock yesterday, when it went off in a
solid body, raking the steamers off the wharf,
and sinking the Yorktown No. 2, Dunleith,
and Thomas Shriver.
The Yorktown No. 2, had large hole
in her starboard, aft of the wheel, and in a
few minutes was filled with water. She
was partially loaded for New Orleans, but
her freight will be taken out without ma
terial damage, She was recently purchas-
ed for the Mobile and Alabama river trade,
by Capt Deshon, who paid 81, 900 for
her, and expended $1,000 in repairing and
equipping her.
The Dunlieth was lying next below the
Yorktown, and was stove in by that steam
er. Her cabin was partially upset, and
her hull twisted and broken. She was
purchased last summer by David Gibson
q Co., for $4,000. We understand there
was no insurance on her.
The Thos. Shiver, Captain Coulter, was
forced by the Yorktown against the guards
of the Cambridge, by which the larboard
wheel house was broken. Her hull was
broken by the ice, and is full of water
She viii be probably lost. Valued at $1l,
600, and not insured. She was owned by
Captain Coulter, Terry and Guthrie.
The steamer Cambridge was forced on
shore but is not seriously damaged.
The fifth street ferry-boat, belonging to
Captain Reilly, sunk in the morning, and is
complete wreck. Capt. Reilly is taking
out her Machinery.
The covington ferry-boats, Kentucky
and Queen City, and the Newport ferry
boat, Cincinnati, each lost their starboard
wheel.
Quite number of the steamers at the
wharf had their wheels broken, guards
smashed, &c, but were not seriously in
jured, although at times the ice would rake
them badly.
The boats that are lying below Millcreek
have, we understand, sustained no injury.
ACCIDENTS AND OCCURRENCES.
During the hurry of preparing the
steamer Morrison for the shock of the ice,
one of the deck-hands fell from the guard
upon the ice below, where he lay bleeding
and insensibie. His injuries were not Sc
rious.
= The principle accident OF the day occur
red when the ice recommended moving at
two o'clock. Apparently gorge had
broken loose below, for the frozen masses
rushed down the stream with great rap
idity. A level cake of ice stretching nearly
from shore to shore just across the track of
the Covington ferry, had induced many
persons to cross; it lay motionless, and, at
the moment when the mass WAS again born
along the surface of the stream, twenty
persons, one Of whom was lady, was up
on it. The lady was being conveyed from
this side to Covington in the skiff above
mentioned, the party who were running it
were near the edge of the large cake of ice
the moment it commenced moving. They
ran rapidly forward, but it was impossible
to cross the broken ice that lay between
them and the shore. A hush of silence
pervaded the thousands who erowed the
banks on each side of the river, and the
hurricane decks of the boats, as the party
made pause as if in despair. At length
the men made up their minds, and turning
back, made for the Cincinnati side. Nearly
the whole width of the river had to be
crossed upon floating mass of ice! Their
situation was made more precarious by the
fact that the large field of ice they were
upon, yielding less readily to the impetu-
ous stream, was attacked as it were by the
latter, and every moment portions of it
were broken of. Some of the men who
had been near the skiff, left it and its ten
ants to their fate. This brought down
upon them indignant cries from the specta-
tors. The party rushed rapidly on and
reached the shore amid the cheering of the
multitude. The ladv showed no sign of