Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-12-25
FEARFUL WEATHER.
Locomotives Frozen Up-Cattle, Sheep
and Hogs Frezen-Men Injured.
Steamboats,, Barges and Flats Injured
and Sunk By the Ice.

CINcTENATI, December PA special
from Wabash, Indiana, Gays that up
ward of sixty locomotives were frozen
up and out Of water between Hun
tington and Peru, Indiana, for nearly
forty-eight hours. Cattle, hogs and
sheen were frozen to death. No fatal
case of freezing among employees had
been reported, though many had limbs
badly frozen. The thermometer here
was at zero at seven o'clock this morn-
ing.
MILwAUKEE, December A.-The
weather here to-day beats the memory
Of the oldest inhabitant, the mercury
going down to thirty degrees below zero.
It has moderated this afternoon to
twenty degrees below zero. A woman
named Krash was picked up this morn
ing on River street, frozen to death. 1t
is supposed she had fallen down IN fit
Of intoxication.
WASHINGTON, December A.-The
following telegram was received here
this afternoon from Cairo: The Column
bus gorge broke at halfpast eight O'Clock
in the evening of the twenty-third and
the Ohio river is rapidly rising.
Sr. JOSEPH, MICHIGAN, December a.
The storm is over; all mail and ex-
press trains will be running by noon.
DENIsoS, TEXAS, December A.-Old
settlers say this was the cOldest morning
ever experienced in Northern Texas, the
Thermometer standing ten degrees above
zero.
LITTLE Rock, December A.-This
has been the coldest day in nine years.
The river is frozen over.
MADISON, IND, December 4.-The
rise in the Ohio river reached this place
about half-past one o'clock to-day,
breaking up the ice-goFge-the huge
cakes of ice carrying everything before
them. The steamers General Buell. and
Nat. Williams, and the ferTyboat Belle
of Milton, were sunk. The steamer
Henry ProbascO, lying at the marine
ways, was carried by the ice from two
to three hundred yards down the river,
when she was secured to the shore
bv means of extra cables. She was
very slightly damaged. Several barges
and flats were also carried away or sunk.
The ferryboat is battered and broken,
leaking in every seam, and is now
crowded on the shore. The Buell. lies
in about four feet water. Should
the rise continue till the water covers
the deck. the damage will be very ex-
teusive. Her guards are already badly
damaged. One of the huge piers Of oak,
ten inches square, which supports the
cabin, was snapped in twain, like reed.
Ice running very heavy. The weather
is extremely cold.
FORT SCoTT, KANSAS, December "a.
asst night was the coldest known i'll
this section, the mercury standing at
eighteen degrees below zero at seven
o'clock this morning.
ST. LOUIS, December 24.-Last night
and this morning were the cOldest Of the
season, the mercury falling to eight de-
grees below zero. The weather for the
past twenty-four hours has been the
cOldest ever known.
BATH, MAINE, December A.-The
weather for the past few days has been
bitterly cold. 1t is now, at eight o'clock
this evening, six degrees below zero.
CINCINNATI, December 24.-The tenn
perature is sinking rapidly since dark,
the thermometer at eight O'Clock being
two degrees below zero. Captain David
Leper, of the steamer General Buell.,
from Madison, Indiana, that
the gorge below that place caused an
eight feet rise of water, then broke,
when the floating ice cut down the Lou
isyille and Cincinnati mail steam
er General Buell., this afternoon.
CHICAGO, December 24. - Weather
moderate again. The thermometer,
which was twenty degrees below this
morning, is up to zero tonight.