Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-12-28

and all held by the ice, which there also
extended some two hundred yards into
. the river, and was a solid mass under
the water for ten or fifteen feet. Below
the barges, and crowded upon the shore.
} was the steamer
R. P. WALT,
owned by Messrs. Elliott Il Mil
7 Ter, and recently running in
the White river trade from
this city. Her hull is badly broken and
I twisted, and on the other side a coal
barge was forced over her guard and
against her boilers, tearing them from
their places and bursting the cabin-fioor
up. 1t was determined by her owners
to wreck her, which was Immediately
begun, and at dark all of her furniture,
cabin and office-fxtures, and everything
! that could be moved was taken out upOn
the bank, leaving only the machinery
on board. All hopes of saving her were
given up, and she will doubtless 20 to
, The bottom or upset, as soon as the
Darges that support her and the City of
Augusta are taken away. The Walt
was valued at forty thousand dollars,
and insured for tWenty-four thousand
.
Plttsburg offices. Her cOnsort, the
CITY Of AUGUSTA,
lay just outside, having been, like the
Walt, carried down a distance of fifty
yards, and had her starbOard guard
crowded under the larbOard wheel of the
Walt, where with two coal bar9es on
the outside she was held fast; her hull
was uninjured, and steam was raised on
n in L..u. u.
ice was too heavy, and she too firmly
imbedded in the mass that held her.
Even with the assistance of the James
Howard, which boat put out a huge
| hawser, she could not be moved, and at
dark remained where she was during the
day. She is valued at thirty thousand
dollars, and insured for sixteen thousand
dollars in the same offices that the
! Waits policies are placed in, and is also
| owned by Elliott & Miller. During
the afternoon the coal tug n. NJ. Jones,
! that somehow had escaped the fate of
| the rest, took one of the coal boats that
was partly under water, and cutting it
loose from the rest, lowed it through the
heavy floating ice across the river to the
| bar, and landed it safely under the stern
| of the II. G. Yeager. The remainder Of
| the barges will sink as soon as the ice
breaks away.
SMALLER BOATS LOST.
| Below the Walt and Augusta We're the
small steamers Summer KOOn and Helen
Brooks. The former viii be a total loss, !
and was worth two thousand dollars, /
while the latter, having an iron hull, |
was saved without injury. The small !
steamer Undine was torn from the land !
ing, just below the Walt, and carried /
out into the stream and down to the |
head of Presidents Island, where she |
sunk. She was worth from fifteen hum |
dred to two thousand dollars, and was 4
owned by Captain Goodrich. The Laura /
laid next, and was crushed upon the |
bank, with her cabin and upper works /
literally torn to splinters. She was
worth twenty-five hundred dollars, and |
is uninsured. The Cincinnati steamer |
ANDY BAUM
laid next below, and had her lines part |
ed and was carried down against the |
West Wind, crushing her, and then |
fiOated down to the outside of the large /
wharfboat, and, being jammed against !
that, broke her guard and stanehiOns, /
and had her cOOkhOuse carried away, 4
besides being otherwise injured, but can /
be repaired for five thousand dollars. |
She is valued at sixty thousand dollars, |
is new boat, and insured in Cincinnati 1
for half her value.
THE WEST WIND
was owned by w. 5. Bowman and John |
f. Massengale, of Nashville, and was
worth eight thousand dollars, and unin-
sured. Her entire cabin on the larbOard |
side was torn and broken, and her
guard crushed and her wheel crowded
over the upper guard of the wharfboat,
CTumbling the wheel and wheel-arms,
and was otherwise injured TO such an ex-
tent that she will be wrecked where she
is. Her chimneys were both carried
away, and a small whartbOat, lying
between her and the shore, was COM
pletely crushed to splinters. The off
GERS of the Andy Baum think that one
of their lines was cut Durposely, and an
other broke the ringbolt to which it was
fastened and went whizzing past the
head of her captain. One of her pilots
was slightly bruised and fell into the
river, but was taken out by his compan-
ions, and her second clerk and barkeep-
er were bruised slightly in their efforts
to save the boat. She has a coal barge
partly under her stern, and lost, as we
have just learned, nearly all her rig
ging, anchor, blocks, ropes, etc, SO that
it viii cost in the neighbOrhOOd of five
thousand dollars to repair her. The
large wbarfOOat, owned by the Cinein-
natl and Memphis Packet Company,
was crowded down fifty yards. Her
outside guards We're crushed, ard her
after guard was badly broken. She was
worth ten thousand dollars, and insured
in Cincinnati for six thousand dollars.
She had bat little freight on board, and
some of it was knocked overheard, but
recovered. a thousand dollars viii COW
er her less.
The SMALL WHARFBOAT
lying next below was crowded up on
shore and had her bits broken. The
Arlington lay just below the wharfboat,
loaded with fifteen hundred bales of cot
ton for Cincinnati, and, notwithstand-
ing that she had seven haWsers out, she
was carried down a short distance, and
at one time was given up, but again Sc
cured. She was injured but little, and
five hundred dollars will cover her loss.
She is worth fOTty-five thousand dollars,
and is insured in Pittsburg and Wheel
ing for fOrty-five thousand dollars. All
of her lines were broken. The Glasgow
lay next bellows with large cargo of
sugar and mOlasses, but lost none of it,
and was injured blythe st. Francis being +.
crowded over her guards and crushing
her larbOard cabin deck, but can be re-
paired for about one thousand dollars.
THE ST. FRANCIS
lost portion of her wheelhouse, and ,
came near being burned from a stove in
the laundry. The fire was extinguished,
however, before any serious injury was |
done. The other boats lying at the
landing were the Lawrence, Ashland, :
A. J. White, Frank Forrest, Mary Mil
Ter, and the P. w. Strader was at the
elevator, but none of them were injured
seriously. The II. G. Yaeger was on
the opposite side of the river lying st {
the bar, and rs far as we. could learn {
was not injured. The towbOat Clipper,
lying Just above her, was was carried
down the river, and met lying at the
bank by the James Howard, apparently
Some thirty produce boats.
lying below the foot of Union street, es-
capped without injury. {
LATER-MoRE DISASTERS.
Since writing the above, the James !
Howard has succeeded in pulling the
City of Augusta from her perilOus posi-
ton, and she now lies below the Walt,
and will be saved unless another ice
wave should come down. That, too, is
expected by some, as it is thought that :
only portion of the gorge at Randolph q
has given way, and that also portion :
Of the Columbus gorge has not yet :
passed. This may be true, as at dark 7
the river was falling. :
ANOTHER ACCIDENT.
On the twenty-fifth, the steamer a
Celeste, owned bv Charles II. Foster, Of /
New Orleans, was struck by the ice at {
above Randolph, and nearly