The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-02-16
THE ICE STARTED.
EMMA LOGAN SUNK.
Other Boats Here All Right
Trouble at Steubenville.
STEAM BOATS ASHORE.
The Forest City Reported I'm
the Gorge.
Trouble at Steubenville.
STEAM BOATS ASHORE.
Sinking of the Belle Vernon, &c.

terday that very few persons looked for
a break in the ice gorges above and
below the city last night. In fact per
sons were crossing and re-crossing the
river on the ice all day.
A dispatch received here yesterday
about noon stating that the river was
open to Rochester, and one from Steu'
benvile dated 5:i5 o'clock P. NJ, put
our steamboatmen on their guard, how
ever, and steam was got up on the
Express, Argosy and Michigan, lying
below the Belmont mill, so that when
trouble came they were ready for it.
At exactly five minutes after nine
o'clock last night the whistle of the
Express announced that the ice gorged
at the Belmont mill had started and it
went with a roar and a crush, creating
noise and confusion for few mo-
ments. The river was swelling rapidly,
and the roar of the waters and crushing
and splashing and cracking OF the ice
made most exciting scene.
The Express, after the first danger
was over, dropped down to Fink's Land
ing, where che now lies secure from
harm.
The Emma Logan, lying at West
Wheeling, which had only just been
raised and repaired, and which was
injured by the ice when it started on
Tuesday, is sunk and has her upper
works badly cut by the ice, as we are
informed.
A dispatch from Steubenville last
evening informs us that the ice has
thrown all the boats there out on to the
shore. We heard q rumor on the
wharf that the Forest City had been
torn from her moorings there by the ice
and was being floated down the river,
We have no means Of verifying this
report and trust it is without foundation
The heaviest OF the ice has not pass.
ed last night, and that to come down
this morning may make trouble yet. A
strict watch was kept on all the steam
boats and the wharfboat last night.
By dispatch from Cincinnati, dated
yesterday, we have the following par
ticulars of the sinking of the steam er
Belle Vernon;
About two o'clock this morning the
steamer Belle Vernon, loaded for New
Orleans, lying at the mouth of Licking
river, was struck by large cake Of ice
and Immediately sunk. She had on
board four hundred tons OF freight;
much Oft was OF q perishable charac.
ter. Yesterday she WAS moved across
the river for safety under the direction
of the underwriters. The boat was
worth about thirty thousand dollars and
was owned by the Cincinnati, Louis,
vile and New Orleans Packet Company.
The boat was fully insured, mostly in
Cincinnati companies. The total loss
will probably reach one hundred thous~
and dollars.
The stage Of water in the Mononga'
hela river at noon yesterday, was five
feet nine inches, considerable part OF
it back water from ice gorge between
Pittsburgh and Rochester.
kilograms received this forenoon re-
| port five feet and stationery at Morgan
town, five feet at Greensboro, six and a
half feet and stationary at Brownsville,
and two feet and rising slowly at Oil
City. There is poor prospect for a
break up Of the ice at Oil City.
A Cairo dispatch of yesterday SAYS;
There are no arrivals. Departed
Glasgow, for Belmont, at 6 P. NJ ; Bis
marck, for Paducah, at g; Crescent
CITY, for New Orleans, at s; Louis
Vile, for Cincinnati, at 9. The weather
is clear and very cold
About four o'clock Wednesday after
noon the heavy ice gorge below Duff s
bar gave way, and resulted in the sink
ing OF two coal boats and the damaging
of barge-the property Of W. II.
Brown. The boats contained 10000
bushels Of coal The barge. which it is
thought can be saved, contains $4,000
bushels of coal. The towboat D. T..
Lane was forced some three feet aground
by the ice, but is probably now ahoat.
The ice again gorged at Deadman,
where it remained until ten o'clock
forenoon, when it once more gave way.
The water there yetterday morning was
ten feet deep, and the ice is said to have
been piled up five feet above the surface
of the water. At Logstown a barge
and flat belonging to Lysle Il Sons, was
swept away by the ice. The towboat
John A. Wood and the John Gilmore,
with five barges of iron ore, are so sit
uated as to create not little anxiety
for their safety. There are also quite
number Of empty coal barges on
Beaver shoals, which will more than
likely he crushed by the ice.
"W. S. B." writes from Cincinnati
OF date February 18th:
The ice above Cincinnati commenced
moving to-day at eleven o'clock, and
moved down about three hundred yards
and piled up on a gorge that lay below
the Cincinnati bridge, and remained
there until three o'clock, when it again
broke, sinking and tearing several
empty barges loose. One belonged to
the J. S. Neel and one to the Hays
Coal Company. VIM. Dunshee is the
only one losing any coal at this time Of
writing, he having had one barge sunk
at Mill Creek Landing. The ice is still
running very heavy.