Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-05-13
River News.

The river is rising rapidly and is now higher
than at any time last yer.
The RIVER AT NEW ORLEANs.-The river at New
Orleans last week higher than the oldest inhab-
itants of the place recollect to have it.
The food rolls down into the city at various places,
and the frogs and ducks of the place are INDUCING
in aperfect carnival in the principal squares.
Luc1E MAY SUNK!-7Arse Lives Lost 1.-THE steam
er Lucie May, Capt. Rhodes, was run into by the
Cedar Rapids, yesterday morning and sunk, caus
ing the loss of three lives. The accident occurred
just below Lagrange, Mo. The Lucie May was
bound up, with heavy freight. The bow of the
Cedar Rapids struck her about midships, cutting
her partly in two. The Cedar Rapids is uninjured
The persons drowned were deck passengers. The
Lucie May lies sunk below her boiler deck. She is
stern wheel boat, and belongs to the Northern
Line.-Doily, 9th.
A FLooD CoxNa. Reports from the upper rivers
leave no doubt that we are to have unusually high
water in the Mississippi this spring The late warm
weather has melted the snow sooner than usual,
and all the upper rivers are bank full and rising.
RAPIDS PAckErs.-The steamers Keokuk and
Ben Campbell will hereafter run to Keokuk instead
of connecting at Montross by the cars with the
lower packets. This arrangement is much more
acceptable to the travelling public. Next week
these boats, with the new steamer Blackhawk, will
extend their trips to Dubuque.
MORE Bears SuNk.-The Jacob TRADER struck q
pile of pig iron at the Cincinnati wharf last Friday,
and sunk in ten feet water. She afterwards caught
fire. and is a total loss-The Sallie West, running
as passenger packet between Leavenworth and
st. Joseph, was snagged and sunk in the Missouri
river, near Kickapoo, on the 5th inst She was run
on bar before sinking by which the lives of all on
board we're saved. II. Q. Jennisen, Esq, of this
city, was one of her passengers at the time. Boat
total loss. She had but little freight. -
STEAMBOAT Struck BY L1eHrS1NG.-The Metro
poltan was struck by lightning during storm,
while she was on her way down from St. Paul last
week The lightning tore up her after guard, and
killed an OK. 1t is rather an unusual thing for
steamboats, to be struck by lightning.
| STEAMER BLAcKHAwK.-This new packet made
her first appearance at our levee yesterday, under
command of Capt. Silas Heaight. She is large,
frstclass boat with all the latest convenences and
improvements. Her wheel house is ornamented
with picture of ''big injun" Supposed to be
| oioCAua"A) Ia tuc dCt VI ulepatCuihS " AouPoos
buffalo with bow and arrow. The Blackhawk will
run regularly in the line between Keokuk and Du-
buque with the steamers Ben Campbell and Keo-
kuk.-Daily, 18th.
| The SINKING OF THE LUc1E MAY.-Tn Saturday s
paper we gave brief account Of the sinking Of the
steamer Lucie May by collision with the Cedar
Rapids on Friday morning of last week. The
following additional particulars are from the La
grange National american:
1.-THE greatest CONSERVATION and excitement pre-
vailed among the passengers, and many OF them
jumped into the river At one time there were
twenty persons swimming around in the water.
MANY tumbled into the river from the stage plank
which had been run out to the shore. but pulled
off as the boat swung out. Those 9th passengers
that grabbed up their baggage and clothing and
held them in their hands or arms, lost all. Some
the male passengers lost every article OF clothing
but their shirt and drawers. Several even lost
their money out of their hands or pockets. A gen.
tleman from the state of New York lost eight nun
bred and eighty-fva dollars, all in Eastern bank
bills, which was every cent he had in the world
also his coat and vest.
! Many OF the deck passengers were rescued from
the sinking boat by cutting hole in the floor the
ladies' cabin and drawing them up through it. The
engineer, soon as the fires of the furnace were
put out BY the rushing in of the water, jerked up
two small children belonging to some Of the deck
them, thereby saving their lives, for they appeared
to have been deserted" .....
The Lucie May belonged to her commander, Cap
tain Rhodes, and was valued at $4,000. She is a
total loss, without insurance.