The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1865-12-20
Moving of the Ice Gorge at St. Louis.
s25O,OOO Worth of Property De-
strOyed.
Telegrapbie CorFesPo0deOcs Cinn. Commercial:

AelesIap DC IorEe7E p nuence 1nn- Comm ercla.s
ST. LoUrs, December LIP. n.
EDS. COM.-The following are the full par
ticulars Of yesterdays disasters on Oh
/ river:
The following boats were tied M at III
landing, portion half loaded, others bein
repaired. and the balance laid by, awaiting
an opening 20 get away Up in the locaiitl
| Of the Elevsior, snd above the upper fsrri
lending, were the Empire City, Omaha
| Amanda, New Admiral, Sioux City, Metro
| politan, Rosalie, and one or two barges
Below and in the space from Cherry stree
down TO Chestnut street, were The Cora
Diadem, Bauuock City, Hattie May, Moa-
tsns, Big Horn, Geneva, Calypso, Mollis
MePike, ArgOnaut No. 2, Highlander, Belle
Memphis, and Southwestern and still far
ther below, at the New Orleans landing.
were the steamers Mary Z. Forsyth and
Paragon.
Between two and three o'clock P. NJ, the
Ice began 10 move, and almost Immediately,
the chains and lines holding the upper
boats snapped, and they commenced moving
down slowly at first, but soon afterward with
more rsPidity and force. Nothing very re-
narkable occurred until they collected in a
group down about the Memphis packet
landing, when the tremendous force Of the
ice, very quickly crushed The Highlander
and Geneva into complete wrecks, and they
sunk down TO their boiler decks. At this
time the cabin Of the Highlander was dis
covered TO be On Ere, aud the steamboat
bells pealed forth the alarm. The engines
were soon on the ground, but before their
arrival it was extinguished by the apphca-
tion Of few buckets Of water.
In the space here, from Chestnut street up
to Olive street, there were eighteen or nine
teen boats, huddled together in every con-
celvable manner, some with their guards
torn away, others, their wheel-houses and
boiler decks, and, not a few, with the for
ward portion Of their hulls smashed in and
ruined. The steamers Calypso and Empire
City were here crushed and torn TO such an
extent that both sunk-the former going al
most completely down on her starboard side,
while the latter, kept up by the lee, dsated /
slowly down the stream-the New Admiral, |
Capt. Charles Barker's boat. and the New
Rosalie, owned by Capt. Perkins, in the lead. !
The Genevs, Highlander, Empire City,
Hattie May, BannOck City, and Diadem, |
we're, We learn, principally owned by par
les in Pittsburgh, and were boats OF not |
'ery much value.
The Empire City was sunk at the foot Of /
]hestnut street. The Sioux City had been
locked for repairs. The situation to-day |
$ as follows: The ice gorged again during
he evening, and this morning was frozen
old from shore 70 shore. Crowds of peo-
BE Were crossing this evening without
'oards, and most Of the railroad passengers
lave come over by this means. Tbs sun
zen boats have been prevented from going /
Glow the surface by ice cakes g0rging under
heir hulls.
The losses are insured as follows: Steamer
admiral, SCI, 900; CalyP.o, S35,O00i High
lnder, $4,000; Empire City, $4,000;
-eneva, Sl3 900; Sioux City, g, 900; Omaha,
5 900; Belle Of Memphis, $1,000; Cora,
5 200; Rosalie, 5000; Hattie May, $4,000;
'aunOck City, s. 900; Amanda, $1,000; Big
Torn, $1,000; Montana, $1,000; MetrOpol-
I'D, s. 900; Argonaut No. 3, $4,000 barge', |
'hart-bOats, 6c., Sl5, 900; cargo losses, S20,- |
90, total, $3.50, 900 The Highlander has
n board two hubdrei tuus. The Admiral !
Cs, sunk 10 her boiler deck, near the foot !
/ Cedar street. She has been abaudJued 20
be underwriters.
The Sioux City was badly damsged. The
.Osalie is opposite the gunboat Smioh, and
areened. The Calypso is just beyond, to-
ards the Illinois shore, and the other
oats named above are nearly all jammed |
,gether between the foot of Olive and | {
larket streets. There is heavy insurance
/ ST. Louis, Cincinnati and Pittsburgh, on I
lese boats The Admira. is insured here /
nd in Pittsburgh or $4,000. The Steamer {
ellie Memphis got up steam this afternoon,
nd worked a narrow passage, for about 500 ]
ards along the river, for the purpose Of !
auling the janmed boats out Of further i
anger, which is feared more than what has 8
appened heretofore. J
Only four boa 8, the Mary Forsyth, Para
on, Bannock City, and snother escaped in ]
he vicinity the danger, though there are y
'me fifty boats in winter quarters between
le Arsenal and Carondolet, on this side. =
he boatmen are anxious, on acc0unt Of q !
Irther breaking up Of the ice. The weather {
moderating. Wind from the south east. !
Colonel John O'FallOn, an old resident Of {
:. Louis and a Millionaire, died to-day, 7
,yenty four years o.d.