The Cairo evening bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1868-1870, 1870-02-21

The weather Ii clear and cold. Their.
mometer ranging nom 10 degrees to 80
The river has risen four feet sinos last
report, and Is still coming up rapidly. I
| The Mississippi is rising slowly at st
Louis, and Ii full Of Ice. i +. % .7r F..
The Ohio u falling 1t Pittsburg, with
ten feet Of water M the channel, and
rising rapidly ut Cincinnati and Louis
Vile, with nine feet over the falls. I
Business here continues lively.
The Great Republic finished . full load
here sud the Bismarck, Ironsides md
barges, Peytony and barges, Liberty No.
4. and bargas, Are loading, and the Mis-.
sissippi will commence loading to.mor-
row.
Freight n now sent forward promptly
from Cairo, 1t the rate Of over one thou.
sand tons daily.
The steamer Emma No. 8, struck Q
suag on the chute OF Island No. IS, last
Saturday, about 10 A. n. and, while
sinking slowly, she careened and upset
her stoves, setting Gre to the cabin, and
driving every person into the water
except the Captain, James Marratta,
who was saved by cllnging 10 the wheel,
and the mate. Caleb MArrAtta, Pilot
Atten borough, three passeugers, head
chambermaid and head cook, who
managed 70 remain on o small strip of
her forecsstls sheltered behind some
casks Of iron, which they prevented
from burning, by throwing water upon
with their hats. The officers launched
the yawi, aud succeeded In keeping
back the afYfigbted passengers until all
the ladies on board, FIVE In number,
were'in Il, and A. many passengers %
was considered safe, but before the
y:wl could be cleared from the steamer,
the flames burst out with such fury that
the others could not b restrained, and
they jumped In, swamping the yawl and
turning II bottom upwards, by which eli
the ladies were lost, and some eighteen
otbers. The survivors except those
saved on the bow and on the
wheel, managed to reach shore,
on doors, planks aud cotton bales, and |
were picked up by the people along the |
l,ver and by the steamer Columbian,
Capt. Barnes, who brought number to |
this city. The other survivors were taken
out TO farm houses In the nelghborhood,
and have not yet arrived. Those who |
same up on. the Columbian were trested
with the utmost kindness by her officers
who supplied them with hats, coats and
lhoes which had been cast of to enable
hem 70 reach shore. The farmers In the
did all in their power to save
md relieve the sufferers. The head en-.
yineer, Lyonberger, died from exhaus-
ion and cold after reaching shore, o.
lid also q passenger named Mcfarland.
The steward, Jas. Ford Is not expected
% live, from the same cause.
The following Is q list OF the lost aud
missing, some Of whom may yet be
ound; 3Fyrfw-FBa b otbsf..tsr ~ |
Walter Marratta. first clerk; Thomas
pilot; Lyonberger. first engin-
'er; Wro Foster, second engineer; Jno.
,oyle, ;s-keeper; Jas. Chapman and two
'ther flremen; Davy, a roustsbout; Miss
.ewis and Aunt OF Csyington, KY;
hree ladies, unknown; one Of whom
,ot on board at New Orleans, one at
and the other at Memphis;
hree Frenchmen, unknown, from New
orleans, who had charge Of . lot OF wine
N board; Thomas Flynn, st. Louis;
Mcfarland, 81. Louis; Otto johnson, Of
New Orleans; James Scholey, Of Lsxing.
on. Ky.siae s1gnesfsI hssens E,c o. - l.