Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-02-18
A Thirty Feet Wall of Water
Moving South, Carrying De-
struetiOn In It's Train.
A Second Deluge East and West
of the Allegheny Mountains
Destruction to Steamboats,.
Many Lives Lost and Much Prop
erty DestrOyed-PeOple in the
LOWlands Panic-Stricken.

EASION, IA, FtDIUaIS ~. AAS
Lehigh is rising slowly and a freshet Il
apprehended.
SebuvIkilI has not risen much from the
rain Yesterday. The ice gorge continue;
at Fairmount The Lehigh at Bethlem
aud Mauchchunk has not risen. Al
Vliiamsport the river is low. A
Chickees IL is six inches and there i
three inches of snow. The river rose
nine inches. The ice is unmoyed. Al
Port Deposit the river rose eight iDehe:
Yesterday, and is still rising. 1t is cleal
and mild. At Harrisburg there is nc
rise.
ST. LOUIS. February I7.-Arrived
CITY of Chester, from Memphis, and
departed at noon. The river had risen
five feet up to two o'clock this evening
when it became stationary. Ice from
the Missouri river has been running past
all evening, and at one time stopped
the ferTybOats, but no damage is re-
ported The river at Alton has risen
i've feet from backwater from the Mis-
souri, aud when it falls it will probably
break the ice there and above. The
weather is mild and damp.
EVANSVILLE, February 17.-Weathei
cloudy and mild; mercury, 440. The
fast. The port list is as follows: Up
Messenger, II pm; Ada Heilman, s
an; Fayette, am; Morning Star, 10
a m: Bowling Green, 3 pm. Down
Arlington, 1870 pm; Mary Avent, 4
p.m.; Lawrence, , pm; Arkansas
Belle, s pm; Palestine, pm, all with
good trips. Business is very active and
freights abundant.
CAIRO, February l7.-Arrived: Susie
Silver, St. Louis; Indiana, Evansville;
Z. II. Durlee, Pittsburg; Robert Mitch
ell, Evansville; J. H. johnson, st. Lou
is; J. P. Gracey, Nashville; Tom Sher-
lock, Louisville; A. J. Baker, Pittsburg
Quickstep, Evansville; Bon Accord,
81. Louis: st. Joseph, st. Louis; PotO-
mac, Memphis; Charley Mcdonald,
Piusburg; John Kyle, New Orleans;
Richmond, Cincinnati; Julia, St.Louis.
Departed: Susie Silver, st. Louis, 8 p.
m: Indiana. New Orleans, II pm; Tom
Sherlock. New Orleans, am. A. J.
Baker, New Orleans, Z am; Quickstep,
Evansville, 8 am; Bon Accord, St.
Louis; st. Joseph, Memphis, II a. M
Glencoe, New Orleans, 8 am; Charlie
Mcdonald, New Orleans, 10 am; PO-
t0nac, Cincinnati, noon. Weather
cloudy and mild. The river has risen
one foot.
LITTLE Rock, February 17.-WeatheT
rainy. The river is rising, with nine
feet in the channel. Arrived: Nashville,
Cincinnati: Colossal, New Orleans.
Departed: Fort Gibson and Exporter,
above.
NEW ORLEANS, February 17.-Weath-
er cloudy and warm. Arrived: Oakland
and barges, PittsbUrg; c. B. Church,
Cincinnati; Pauline Carroll, st. Louis:
Jennie Howell, Arkansas river. De-
parted: Alice and barges, st. Louis.
CINCINNATI, February 1.-THE river
is falling temporarily, with thirty-seven
feet in the channel. Arrived: r. H.
Hudson, Wheeling; Condor and barges,
Pomeroy. The Ed. Hobbs passed from
Wheeling to st. Louis, and the Albion,
with salt, from Pomeroy to Memphis.
Weather cloudy and warm.
NASHVILLE, February 1.-THE river
is rising slowly with thirty feet large on
Harpeth shoals. Weather partially
cloudy but pleasant. Arrived: John
Lumsden, Cairo. Departed: John Lums-
den, Cairo.
LOUISVILLE, February 1.-THE river
has risen three feet six inches and still
rising rapidly, with fifteen feet six inch
es in the canal and thirteen feet six
inches feet il the chute, and sixty-nine
feet bridge space. The weather has been
cloudy and damp all day. Mercury 45o
to 507. The riVer is full of drift and
crowds are attracted to the banks to
watch the rising water. Old boatmen
say the prospect is fair for the highest
water for several years. No damage is
vet reported by the flood. The coal fleet
at the Pumpkin Patch is carefully
watched and every precautiOn taken.
Arrived: Andy Baum, from Memphis;
Charmer, Evansville; Commonwealth,
Allegheny Belle and baTges, Cincinnati.
Departed: Charner, Cincinnati; Ex-
change, Nashville. The Alice Brown
expects TO leave for New Orleans to-
night with twenty coal-bOats. The
Mountain Belle enters the Louisville
and Madison trade Wednesday.
PITTsBURG, February 1.-THE recent
heavy rains carried a rapid rise into the
AIonongaheIa river last night, and al
TWO o'clock this morning the current
was so strong that a coal fleet, consist
ing OF thirty boats and barges, broke
loose from their fastenings al
the Smithfield street bridge, and
moved of in a rapidly rising
cuTent. The alarm was instantly given
by blowing whistles and other signals
in use on the river, and every effort
was made to save the lives Of the un-
fortunate men who were on board
the c0al-fieet. Some were saved,
but il is reported that several
persons were lost One man
was seen to be carried under the steamer
Hercules, and another under the Andes.
Both men were floating past on barges
and eudeavored to jump on the wheels
Of the steamers named, when they
fell in the current and went
down. The tOwbOat Frank Wilson,
lying opposite the foot of Market street,
was struck by The floating bsrges and
turned upon one side. The Oil Valley
was also cut down. Ii is impOssi-
bic at present to ascertain the extent OF
the damage done 20 property on
the river and the number of lives lost.
The river is still rising rapidly at 10: g
DIE, with seventeen feet, but there il
no further damage apprehended.
SECOND DISPATCH.
PITTsBURG, February 1.-THE food
which so unexpectedly commenced in
the Monongahela river last night con-
tinues without abatement, and is rather
increasing in violence. 1t is impossible
10 approximate the amount of damagt
done, but it is considered the greatest
river disaster ever experienced
in this section. Grave rumOrs ar
current of the damage done upt the river
The loss Of life has not been as great a:
was supposed. Rumors prevailed thai
some twelve or fifteen men had gone
down, but il turns out that only two men
were knocked of.
At McKeesport, the towboat Wilson
was sunk this morning. She was valued
at fifteen thousand dollars; insurance,
one thousand dollars. The Oil Valley,
valued at fifteen thousand dollars and
insured. The loss of barges has been
heavy and general. At Elizabeth this
morning, several coal-boats, with q
quantity OF lumber RATS, owned by
j. Walton, were swept away. Loss
twenty thousand dollars. OF the barges
which were swept away from the bridge
this morning, five were owned by Sam
uel Cable, OF which four were sunk.
Three barges landed at Shawneetown,
one marked hV. 4. Wilson, and one
HJohn son, IL"
-Four barges were landed by the steam
er Fairly, belonging TO Gray. Several
Others mOored at points below the city
at half-past eight this morning. River
rising. Marks indicate nineteen and
a half feet
The new city charter of New York as
amended, which viii probably pass the
Legislature this week, and is to become
the law upon its passage, viii remove
every present head of departments, and
create other changes of sweeping char
acter heretofore reported. The Board OF
Assistant Aldermen is dispensed with,
and the Police Commlssioners are shorn
OF great deal Of their present power,
but the Superintendent Of Police has bis