, 1865-12-18
GOV. C0RWlh ALIVE ATlAST
ApvlcES.
Escape of a Condemned
Guerilla.
Progress of the Fenian
1mbroglio.
Gen. Mitchell Governor Of New
Mexico,
FROM ST. LOUIS.
Terrible Hayoc Of m Ice EorGe-Twen.
If Steamers More or Less DamAe eed-
Loss s2l3,00o.

Terrible Havoc Of m Ice EorEe-TSxen.
If Steamers More or Less Damzeed-
Loss s2l3,00o.
Especial Despatch 10 the Chicago Tribunal
ST. Lou,a, Dec. II.
The following asc The full particulars Of ycster
days disasters On the river:
The following boats wero tied up at the landing
somc half loaded, Others being repalred, and some
more laid BY awaiting an opening 10 get away. Or
at the locality ofthe Elevator md ahoye tho upper
ferry landing were the Empire City, Onaha, New
Admiral, Sioux City, Metropolitan, Rosa Lee, and
one or two barces below, and in the epaee from
Cherry street donn 10 Chestnut street were the
Com. Diade1n, naunoek City Hattie May Montana
Dig Horn. Geneva, Calypso, 8follte. Mer1kc, Argo.
western. suli tu1ther below, At he New Orleans
Paragon.
Between two and three o'clock, p. m., the ICE be-
can to moye, and almoet Immediately the cha1ns
and ropes holding the upper boats snapped, md
theJ commenced moving down, stowly at hrst, but
fosee. Nothing very remarkable Occurred d until ii
the{ colleeted Ina group down aooutt tEe Mcr,phls
Packet L1udir9, when the tremendous force Of tho
ne,a into complete wrecks, ~ md they tsnt down To-
their bo!ler decks. At this time the cabin Of the
Highlander was diseoyc.ed to be on Dire, and tho
lived 1t was e1tinguished By the application OF a
lew buckets Of W1tcf-
In the epsee here RON Chestnut street up to
Oflye street there we're eighteen or nineteen boate
huddIed together IN erIEJ conceivable manncr,
@ s sa Soa sn ad' ohss RS R
The forward portion Of their bulls smashed In and
ruined. The etsamefs Calypso and Eunpirc CITY
noi5 snnt IL faIneT roinr ssnoet sann'etcix sir
down On her eta7board eldc, while the httes, kept
up by the ice, aoated tloWly down the stream.
the M Kosa ies owned s. Capt. TeiSios IL he led.
The Geneva, Highlander. Empire City. Hatsie May,
k.anoek GT md ,lts1 1taas% 2 we ls p pns
The Empire City wns sunk at the foot Of Chestnut
street. The machinery Of the Sio1x CftI had been
follows: The .tc goEged again durlrs to< evcuinr,
nd thia npg VA ossn sea nsana sho NJ y,
witheu, boaria, and noel ei The 1s,iiead 1i.ssen.
Ecrs have come over by this means: 'Tsa funIen
Gosts have been pFeyented . ffom :ioins below :he
arc summed up II tolows: Steamer Admiral,
Empiga c!.5, 6o6: Gens.s, tlaOoo; sioHr csty,
Con- 900; Kosa Iee, t5O0o; Hattie Nay, {,0oo;
$50; Nontan., $50; aeuopoilsan, t;oo5; Has:
esIeo Iosses, sso.ooo. Totai. ssiso1. ~ <'''''''
The H!ghlaDder had on board two hundred TOES
catEo The admiral nes suaE to her boiler deck
damaged The Rosa Lee IS opposite gnnboat shiloh
and carecned over the Calypso IL Just beyond toward
Illinois ehore. I1a other bo,ts mentioned above
arc nearly all tamhcd together between tho loot OF
Olive and Market stteet. There ts hc.yy insa.-
ance In ST. LonIs, Cincinnati and Pittsburgh, on
these boats. The Admiral is insured here and In
Pittsburgh for 090 The st au,:r Belle Memphis
got up steam this D. H., and worked 4 narrow pas
cage about i've hundred yarls ALOE; the river for
the purpose Of hauhng tbs ]ambed boas ont Of tur.
thef danger which ii feared more th IN what has
l1ppencd heretofore.
Only four boats-the Mnr3 E. Forsyth, Paragon,
Bay City and snothef-escaped, In the immediate
ooats IN winter quarters between the Arsenal and
Ca1onde1et, on thls eide. The bo2tmen arc anxlous
On account Of further breaking up OF the ice. The
Col John O'fallon, IN old resident Of ST. Louis
and millionaire, died to-day, seventy four ycs1s