Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-01-04
Steamers Sunk at Various Points.
The Gen. Buell. a Total Loss.
A General Wreck of Coal Barges and
Lighter Craft.

Lighter Craft.
CINCINNATI, Jan. 3.-Nothing new in
river matters here since the breakup last
night, except that the Mammoth, a wharf
boat, belonging to the Southwestern Trans
portation Co., is left on shore, caused by
the sudden fall in the river. Efforts are
being made to pull her off. The ice in
Licking river is still gorged about half a
mile above the mouth, and is about ten or
fifteen feet high.
The gorge at Madison, Ind, gave way
this morning, carrying the steamer Gen.
Buell. half mile below and sunk her.
The ice at Wheeling also gave way, sink
ing the steamer Carrie Brooks.
The gorge at New Albany broke about
midnight, doing no damage.
a Chronicle Louisville special says about
200 coalboats, barges and wrecks were
moving with the ice below Madison. All
the gorges between Madison and Louisville
have broken. The river is rising fast, with
eight feet on falls.
LATER.-News from above indicates
very high river coming down. The Licking
river is running out heavy ice and a large
number Of loose saw logs this evening, but
the ice is soft and broken. No addition 10
the damage already reported. Two or three
little steamers have been thrown aground
without injury, but will be afoat by the rise
Of the river. The rumor last night that the
Leonora went down with the ice is false.
She is safe in the lower part of the city. The
river is pretty near clear above the mouth
of tie Licking.
Specials to the Gazette says the Kama
Wha is I6 feet at Charleston. It rose in "a
hours seven feet at IIonton, and cores
pondingly at Marietta, Wheeling and other
points. Private dispatches report the Ma
Dongahela rising with almost unparalleled
rapdity. 1u anticipation of food the
people in the lower part of the city are re-
moving merchandise from cellars aud plac-
ing it high and dry.
A Gazette special from GAINESVILLE SAYS
that the ice in moving out of the Muskin-
gum this 4. m., threw Granger's mill off its
foundation and sunk the small steamer
VIM. Feat.
a special TO the same, from Middeport,
reports the sinAing of the steamer Emma
Graham valued at $4,000; loss, total, with a
$4,000 cargo Of -four; no insurance.
Steamers up The river are reported running.
The boats here are loading, and some of
them expect 10 start out tomorrow. The
weather is clear and windy. The mud on
the streets is freezing since dark.
At Louisville.
LOUISVILLE, Jan. 3.-The gorges above
broke this morning. The ice is coming
down IN vast fields. The steamboat men
are al prepared for the danger. The ice has
been running very heavily since 1920 this
forenoon. The river is full of crushed ice,
and large number ofimmense foes are pas
sing down. The water is shallow on Welt
Zel's dam at the head of the canal, and the
ice foes are tbOr0ughlE. broken up in pas
sing over It. The fields which pass down
the chute between the wings of the dam,
are broken to pieces against the piers of the
bridge or crushed up in the falls. The ice
is generally pourOUs and heavy and floats
deep.
a coal barge, containing 5000 bushels,
belonging to Hyatt IL Stone, was cut down
at the wharf this evening; loss about $1,000.
The barge was tOWed up from head OF the
canal this morning to supply customers
The hull of the old Dick Fulton and one
fat were broken loose from the towbead
this afternoon, and drifted down near First
street, when the tug Magnolia rescued
I .
Today, with 70 feet 10 the chute and 81 feet
N the can=!, and still rising slowly. No re-
liable new .lom the coal fleet at Pumpkin
Patch, but the general impression is that
the feet will not suffer much, if any, dam
age The ice sCrapss the boats lying at the
upper portion of the river front, but passes
clear of the boats at the levee.
Capt. King, of the Dove No. 2, arrived
this evening from Madison; and says the
gorge there broke at o'clock this morning,
taking the Gen. Baell down a mile and
sinking her. She is total loss. 1t broke
the NsJ Williams to pieces and sunk her;
also ferrybOst. 1t pushed large number
Of empty coal barges and some loaded ones
on the bank, making a total loss. The
river raised there s feet from o'clock last
night up TO o'clGck this morning. TIE
loss is about as follows: The Gen. Buell.
$4,000; the Nat Williams $1,000; the fer
ryboa5 81, 900, ard the coal and barges $50
600. Total $4,000.
The weather here is turning colder and
it cleared up during the day. 1t is suppos-
ed the Madison gorge will be here about 9
O'clock tonight. 1t is looked for with con-
siderable anxiety.
LATER-Up to midnight the ice was
running very heavily. River is full of it for
miles. About 10 o'clock 4 large foe caught
on Weitzal's dam, near the Kentucky shore,
and the ice rapidly accumulated, backing
up to First street, a distance of half mile.
By II O'Clock the field thus formed ex-
tended for 200 yards into the river, filing
up the harbor and throwing the floating
ice over to the Indiana shore. The weather
is clear, cold and freezing. No further acci-
dents are reported. The latest news from
Pumpkin Patch is that all is safe in that
quarter; and the lights seen at that place
from the levee confirm the report.
At Evansville.
EVANSVILLE, IND, Jan. 3.-Clear and
clustering cold; mercury 80 to AZ; river de-
clining; little ice running. All clear as far
as we hear from. There is border of ice
along the shore yet.
At Wheeling.
WHEELING, W. VA, Jan. 3.-The river
at this place started about II O'Clock last
evening, but soon stopped. At 4 O'Clock
this morning, the ice from the upper end Of
the wharf down run out. The ice