Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-01-20
RIVER NEWS
ARRIVED.
Jan. 19.-Alert Upper Cumberland.

River still rising; FIVE and a hall Feet
water on Harpeth Shoals. The weather
yesterday was cold, with slight fall Of
snow
The Alert, which came in yesterday.
from the Upper Cumberland, brought
down 1000 sack corn. ~
The Talisman took out about 100 bales
of cotton, aud some other freights S.
The Tyrone, Capt Tom Harmon, il due
here tomorrow, and will leave Tuesday.
Adispatch was received yesterday from
she ROwena, which had been reported sunk.
The report was incorrect. She is only ice
bound, and will be here shortly after she
can make herself 4" master Of the situstion
in the Ohio.
The Gen. Sigel went uP the river to
CoOper's Eddy, Friday night. and came
back yesterday, bringing fifty bales cotton.
A Pittsburg dispatch of the 18th says
navigation was still impeded. and the
Allegheny wasclosed. Heavy ice was run.
ming out Of the MonongaheIa.
A Cairo dispatch of the 18th says.
The river has fallen three inches. I'M
mense fields OF ice, two isches thick, are
| floating by. The Ohio is very high. but
| packets make regular trips The Liberty
had to force her way through gorges and
SINKS. Navigation Is now impossible above
/ Paducah. The Armada was compelled 10
turn back and lay up at Paducah. The
| Sam. Parker Is helping the Laurel Hill at
| ShNWneetoWn. The Laurel Hill is hard
aground. The Sam. Parker, Curlew, Eagle
Webb, Swallow and Simpson Horner are
laid up above Paducah The Clara Dolsen,
! Pauline Carroll and Graham we're ali
aground at Plum Point The Strader re-
| ports them about Oft The Arthur has ar
rived with fine trip, including 21S hogs
heads Of sugar
The Cincinnati Enquirer of Friday saws:
A few days since, when the weather was
somewhat milder, and heavy rain on ton
I of several inches of snow in the mountains.
was telegraphed from Pittsburg az causing
q considerable rise in the Allegheny and
1 Msnongshela, our boatmen naturally
! enough experimenting that the rise from
7 ice, and unless il rotted and sunk before
reaching here, there was every probability
| that damage would be done 10 the water
craft moored to the shores. This apprehen-
/ sion was not without good foundation. The
swell OF water which left Pittsburg was
largely augmented by the tributaries of the
! Ohlo-Kanawha, Little Miami, and Others.
The ice came down the Ohio river at a ter
rihc rate, crashing shore ice on its way.
! The cold spell did not lessen the ice in the
least, and with the ice collected on the
bars, which in many places was some ten
to fifteen feet thick, the shore ice extending
well up the beach, and at different places
well cut into the channel of the river. 4
gorge which had formed below Marietta
also gave way, and the whole mass came
drifting by here on Wednesday night, about
eleven o'clock, and at twelve o'clock the
heaviest part of it came down, almost fill
ing the river from shore to shore. The
river was rising at the rate of six inches
per hour, and the ice foated past the city
with great force, grinding and crashing
against the boats, and threatening total an
inhalation to everything in its way
The Louisville Journal of yesterday says:
The prospects for river men are far from
tlattering. The owners of the coal feet now
tied up below the towhead, fear that fur
ther rise would float the ice, coal barges
and all, down the river, Dispatches from
points above inquire for the whereabouts Of
barge5 that have broken loose, with orders
to land them if possible. The ice ia gorged
below Evansville, but pilots tell us that
this rise when it reaches that place will
break It loose. The rumor of a gorge be-
low New Albany is unfounded The ice
running IS very heavy, and the current IL
quite rapid, hurrying it along at a rate
that would prove fatal TO any boat attempt
ing to stem it for any distance. The JEFF
fersonyille and Clay street ferries both sus-
pended operations yesterday morning. The
Portland and New Albany ferry continued
running, though they expected to be
obliged to stop before night. A sudden
rise before a thsw would be attended BY
heavy losses.
| The wind was blowing teTrifoally, and
ell who were on the landing calculated on
fearful destruction before the daylight of
Thursday dawned upon the scene. The
water was rising rapidly, some ak inches
per hour, and the ice came with great force
The first point it struck Was near the Eu-
reka dock, Fulton, parting a line which
was made fast on the docks, and passed on,
next striking feet of coal and 6atboats
lying belOW-sOme eighteen or tWentg-all
of which parted their lines, and were ear
ried down stream in theiee. The Newport
ferrybsat, Newport Belle, was making a
trip across the river when the body of the
ice came down, and was also swept before
il, losing one of her Wheels 1t next struck
the hull of the steamer Duke of Argyle.
which was being dismantled st the foot Of
Ludlow street, her machinery having been
taken out. The Ice cut into her hull, and
she began leaking badly, and as the car
Penter was trying to stop the leak, heavy
mass Of ice again struck her the lines
parted, and she dTifted down stream. She
lies sunk near columns Rifle, and will
prove total wreck. Her machinery had
all been removed, so that the loas will be
uncomfortable. The Duke of Argyle was
built about thirteen years ago, and was
] owned by Mr.. Daniel MaEion, of this city
There was no insurance upon her.
| The ice next grappled With the feet of
coal boats dry dock, and other bOats in the
seventeenth ward. The toWboat Whale
was torn loose, and from fifteen TO twenty
! tOaA Duat9 PaAtCu tINiA iiile5 anu pASsei
down the river in the conglomerated mass
The new United States Mail Line Louis
vile steamer America was the next boat
struck BY the ice, which came with such
force that she also parted her lines, and
driited against the Pine Grove, STAYING in
her guards fore and aft, taking off the cook.
house, and breaking of her piston, dam
aging her to the amountsof $1,000 The
mate had three hawsers, one inch-and-a-
half rope, and two chains, also a stern-line
out on the Grove, which held her securely.
The America was taken out in the stream,
and also tioated down with the other boats.