The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-12-30
THE MEMPHIS sTEAMBoATDIs.
ASTER.
Later Accounts of Losses and Insur.
ance..More Damage Feared.

uuCes@uOEe Dhmhke rehEeus
CINCINNATI, December 2S.-A CHronl.
cb's Memphis dispatch this morning, SAYS
the river has risen IS inChls since dark
last night, and Is rising rapidly. Itis al.
most choked with floating ice, which Is
heavier than that which passed ycster.
day, and cut lis way 10 within few feet
of the boats lying at the loot Of Jefferson
street. Two bargcs Of coal, one owned
by the gas company, were sunk by n
wave from the gorge at Randolph Land
ing, this morning. Should the gorge
above break away as soon as Is now antiC.
ipated the West Wind, Belle of Pike and
r. p Walt will go down in 90 or 10 feet
OF water, and it will be impossible to save
the dry docks, ferry boat, Excelsior wharf
boat, belonging to Capt. Patterson, and
the steamer Helen Brooks. The steamer
Celeste sunk on the 2jLh at Island Twen-
ty-SIX. Her cargo, valued at $4,000, Is
y total LOSE, and her crew barely escaped
with their lives. They walked overland
sixty miles, arriving at Memphis last
night.
MEMPHIS, December 2S.-The situation
at tue levee is unchanged since last night
except that the Belle Of Pike has settled
nearly to her boiler deck. Captain Du-
gan, OF tho wrecking boat Eckert, Is
experimenting the removal of the cotton
from her, which consisted OF seven hun.
drcd ond fllty-six bales, over one-half of
which has been saved. Should the boat
hold up during the day the remainder
will be saved. All her her cabin lurni-
ture and state room doors have been
saved. She was valued at $4,000 and
insured in Pittsburgh for $4,000. The
R. P. Walt was insured for $4,000 in
Pittsburgh and Wheeling Offices instead
OF New Albany, as reported last night.
The work OF wrecking her still pro-
gresses and everything will be saved ex-
cept her hull. Taylor Wells, pilot Of the
Andy Baum, who was injured yesterday,
is doing well. leo is still running very
heavy and the weather cloudy with indi-
cations Of rain. The Legal Tender and
Mary Boyd are laid up at Commerce and
the John B. Maude at. the mouth Of
White river.
1t is midnight, and the river is still
rising steadily, but there is no material
change in affairs at the levee. All the
cotton on the Belle Of Pike except about
l50 bales has sbeen saved. This is
stOred' on deck. She will probabA be
lost, as she is gradually sinking.
Rain has been falling since three o'clock
and now at eight 1t is raining hard. The
ice below Jefferson street has loated of
and the floating ice does not fill moro than
hall Of the channel, but q heavy field
lying between tho mouth Of Wolfe river
and Jefferson street has not moved, this
has been regarded as the chiei instrument
and direction to it should it all break
loose at once, but as the channel Is rapidly
closing the danger is lessCned. The
James Howard left for Cairo at four, he.
lievlng the floating ice had pretty we'll
run out. With the assistance OF J. White
the City OF Augusta was loesened from
tho debris OF the wreck and ice, and drop.
ped down 10 the place vacated by the
Howard. The little steamers HELEN
Brooks and Summer Moon have sunk,
The Walt has been wrecked except her
boilers. Allfreight on the Belle Pike has
been saved except about 100 bales Of cot.
ton,she is gradually settling and will prove
a total loss except her cabin furniture.
The condition Of the Cleburn, Excel
sior, Nellie Thompson, and the dry docks
is unchanged, and is now regarded as less
critical. The shore ice along where the
West Wind, Arlington, Glasgow and ST.
Francis are moved, has sloug6cd Of, leav.
ing them almost Tree, but still in posi-
tion 10 be crushed, should the fields Of
ice be hurled against them in a body,
Tho iron tug Nat Jones, with coal
fleet, carried over troops from Little
Rock who have been detsined BY the ice.
Trains on the Little Rock road will com.
mence running again tomorrow. The
Memphis & Charleston railroad has com.
pleted arrangements by which, towards
the close of the week, they can deliver
ten car loads Of coal daily. 1t Is now be-
lieved the gas companies will have little
or no trouble in supplying the demand.
Capt W. j, Ross has been appointed
General Superintendent Of the Memphis
y Charleston Railroad, and @. s. Wil.
hanson Assistant Superintendent.