Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1857-02-18

ful 5tn OF feOrnary, VIII long De feuemoereu
by not only parties interested, but thousands
who thronged our spacious levee, the opposite
shores and all available points. At noon, the
weather was mild and balmy, with gentle,
tropical wind from the South west. As we write
the ice is still running, but not heavy enough,
we hope to materially interfere with our pre-
cious inland feet. To-day we anticipate lively
business and number of departures for the
Sunny South on Saturday.-Cln. Com.
The following dispatches are taken from the
Commercial of Saturday:
Pittsburg, Feb. 6.
EDS. CoM-The steamer Chicago is sunk at
the foot of Captina, sixteen miles below Wheel
ing. d. GRAHAM.
Louisville, Feb. 8, 10 p. m.
EDS. CoM.-The Gen. Pike has been cut down
by the ice. Eigty feet of her starboard side is
broken in. may save her, by filing her hold
with empty barrels. We are lying into shore
The Superior is safe yet. WIN. F. FULLER.
GREAT TREsRET ON THE HUDSON.
Albaag Inundated Great Excitement and Loss
Of Property.
AS WAS anticipated yesterday the tremendu-
Gus food of last night occasioned damage to an
amount impossible at present to conjecture, but
which cannot fail to reach S2,OOO,OOu.
All last night the city was the scene of the
utmost confusion and excitement. The citizens
were engaged all last evening on the docks and
in the lower part of the city in removing goods
and storing them away in the second stories
of buildings where it was thought the flood
would not reach them; but these calculations
proved erroneous. About half past ten o'clock
the ice commenced moving in the river with tre-
menduous force, threatening the bridge on
State street for some time. The water rose SO
4 oil
piers were compelled to make a rapid retreat
The water in the river continued rising until
5 o'clock this morning, when it reached APPOINT
three feet higher than ever known before. The
entire lower part of the city is flooded as high
as Green street. The lower part of Herkimer,
Hudson. Lydia, Hamilton and Parallel streets
are submerged to the first stories of the build
ings on them. The water flowed through Broad
way, from the Exchange to the Delavan House,
flooding the stores and filing the cellars.
The streets between Broadway and the River
are navigable by boats When the great flood
commenced it was about two o'clock in the
morning, and the water rose six inches i'll five
minutes, and persons who had retired to bed
thinking themselves safe, were aroused by horse
men who rode through the water knocking at
the doors of houses to arouse the sleepers to a
sense of their danger.
The widest confusion prevailed The people
in the lower part of the city had barely time to
escape with their lives. 4 large number of cat
tie were stabbed in the distilleries, whose below
ing and cries added excitement TO the scene
They were drowned about three o'clock.
The alarm bells were sounded for fire, when
flames were discovered bursting forth from hous-
es in different parts of the city. G.. G. Warner
& Sons lime kilns and buildings on South street
and Broadway, Gibson's and Daltons planning
and plastering mills at the foot of South street
and W. r. Barretts fine brick store, on the
pier, were in flames at the same time, having in
each case ignited through the Stacking of lime
The depth of water rendered it impossible for
the engines to reach the scene of the conhagra-
ton, but the fremen put off in boats with buck
cts and confined the flames to the buildings
where they originated.
About this time the wind changed and the
weather became piercingly cold.
The propeller Western World, lying in front
of Barretts store, caught fire and was scuttled
and sunk to save her cargo of, 900 bushels of
corn.
TERRIBLE CATAsTRoPHE.-Our city was the
scene, yesterday of sudden and terrible ca
tastrophe, by which, in addition to the destruc-
ton of much property, three persons lost their
lives, one of whom was one of the oldest and
most respected farmers OF st. Louis county.
Most OF our citizens are acquainted with a
block of two story houses on Chestnut street,
just below Fourth, in one of which was former.
ly the noted bar Der shop and baths of the Cla-
morgans. About two O'clock, yesterday after
noon, the whole block fell in simultaneously,
without q premonition OF any kind.
In the various establishments in the first story,
were the proprietors, their employees, and in
some instances their customers. In the upper
l01 AVID l,r- off
there. In all there were about twenty-five to
thirty persons in the three buildings that fell,
only two OF whom were killed. The third was
Major VIM. Gardiner, wealthy farmer of this
county, aged about seventy-three years, who
was passing through the alley by the south side
of the building when it fell. Some one called
to him to warn him OF his danger, when the
building Was seen to be falling, but he only had
time to throw up his hands before the whole
broadsde ofthe house fell upon him, burying
him beneath a mass of ruins several feetdeep.
In few minutes after the crash, the ruins
were discovered to be on fire, and before an en-
81 could be got to work, the flames were roar
ns like furnace. BY the almost superhu-
man exertion of the fremen and other citizens,
the flames were arrested, and the work of re-
moving the rubbish to extricate those beneath,
progressed SO rapidly that, in less than three
hours the whole was accomplished. Two bod.
les only were exhumed, both of whom were
discovered to have persisted by the FIRE. Their
faces we're burned oil, so that recognition was
impossible. They were both German tailors,
and one of them is supposed to have been man,
ed John Jordan. The name Of the other one
could not be ascertained.
Besides these, there were several persons
badly hurt. Mr.. Theodore Papin, who was in
the barber shop, getting shaved received a
bah oil fha -.
Der, named Burch, who was shaving him. An
other person, whose name could not be learned,
was SO badly hurt, that he will probably die
He was taken to the Sisters Hospital
The damage done to property is not yet
known. The buildings were very old, and as
evidenced By their tumbling down, not very val-
liable. They are built upon property leased
from the School Commissioners.
We learn from DR.. Vastine, who had an Office
in the second story, that the day previous, the
walls commenced cracking and settling, but
were not considered very dangerous on account
of their being bounded on two sides by strong
er walls. Where the middle building stood, was
formerly an ice-house, the excavation Of which. |
of this, undermined the foundations, and was
the main cause of the catastrophe A great |
scene of confusion ensued around the locality. |
and great excitement prevailed, and it was with |
great difficulty that any particulars Of the affair
could be obtained.
FArAL AccIDxxr.-Last Sunday, about mile |
and = half east Of town, two men, while exhibit |
ing feats in equestrianism upon single horse, |
we're thrown violently 10 the ground, one Of |
them, William Siapeiton inssantiy killed. The |
other man, whose name We have not learned, |
received severe fracture Of the skull Nor.
gan Journal.