The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-01-03
RIVER NEWS.
Prospect of a General Breakup.
Ice Runs out at Cincinnati. l.RiveETis'
ing above and a Breakup Expect.
ed Soon. sl
A Speedy Opening Expected at s.
Ennla.

Louis.
PITTSBURGH, January 2.-RiVer sever
feet and five inches at 6 o'clock. a large
amount OF heavy ice is running IN the
Monongahela. The Allegheny remains
unbroken. Tho weather has been warm
and cloudy during the day and it has
been thGwing very rapidly: Mercury
this evening stands at 4G. A heavy rain
began falling at o'clock. At ten O'Clock
the river was rising rapidly-eight feet
three inches Stopped raining. Weather
clear. The boats at tho wharf have all
raised steam SO as to be prepared for any
emergency during the night, A number
OF boats have been employed during the
day ct various pools breaking the ice. 1t
is reported this eve that the ice in pool
No. 9 had run into pool No. l. There
are gorgcs at various points in the river
above the city. A rapid rise at Browns.
vile caused by q gorge. The ice at
Rochester Is unbroken.
CINCINNATI, January 2.-The river Is
moving, and the landing and bridges are
crowded people. All the steamers have
steam up and have commenced moving.
At 4:45 the steamers whistled a notice
Of the break. A fringe Of ice remains on
each shore extending beyond the steam:
crs. At first it seemed to move in a solid
body, but the piers of the Newport rail.
road bridge are breaking it up. The
Licking broke at G o'clock, and runs out
gently. No boats, as yet, are injured and
boatmen feel happy and hopeful.
The ice In tho river at half past nine
o'clock was small and soft The danger
is over. The ice from the Licking river
was not a general break. It extended
only one mile from the mouth. The
danger is thought TO be past. An empty
coal barge struck the steamer James D.
Parker and pushed her on the sunken
steamer nightingale, crushing her wheel.
Damage, $1,000. The Fan Tail and
A[inneola were taken off the wreck OF the
Mountain Boy and carried down the
river. There was no other damage.
The river is rising, with 90 feet water.
CINCINNATI, January IA Gazette spe'
Cials say that the ice commenced moving
at Lawrenceburgh at halfpast seven, and
that the Kanawha at Charleston Is rising,
with seven feet of water, and is free from
ice, with boats running from Charleston
to the mouth. ..-...
CINCINNATI, January 3.-Aton o'clock
this morning the river is rising rapidly.
There has been no further damage TO
boats. Athalt-past one the steamers on
tho Licking are whistling, which indi-
Gates that the ice is coming down. The
back water from the Ohio is relied on TO
prevent danger from it.
EVANSVILLE, Ind, January 2.-Weath-
er cloudy and mild Mercury 4S 10 "a.
The river rose 3 feet inches, then fell one;
after the ice broke 1t moved out without
injury to any floating craft, at 1895 gorg
ed but started again at a P. NJ; heavy ice
is still in the harbor. 1t has broken at
Kenderso, Owensboro and Rockport and
gorged again ut the latter place. Owens.
boro wharf boat was carried of and two
fiat boats and seven fiat boats at Rock
port.
NASHVILLE, January 2.-The river is
rising briskly. There were heavy rains
to-day, with the promise Of more tonight.
There are St feet of water on Harpeth
shoals. ,25 ,t
LOUISVILLE, January 2.-The river is
rising very slowly; s feet . inches in the
canal; 8 feet 2 inches in the chute. It
rained most Of this afternoon, The
weather is mild and clearing up tonight.
There is no change in the position of the
ice.
CAIRO, January 2.-There are no ar
rivals or departures except the local
packets. The river has fallen Z inches.
It has been rainy all forenoon, and cloudy
and mild tonight.
MEMPHIS, January,2.-Weather cloudy.
River rising. Arrived-E. Il. Durfee and
Indiana, from New Orleans. Departed
Mary Miller, Dexter and Mollie Moore,
for New Orleans; Bismarck, Z. II. Dur.
fee, City of Chester, and Emmy Elliott,
for st. Louis; jos. Howard, for Cairo
Fanny Lewis, for ViCksburg. The Jas.
Powell with two barges Of coal, and Billy
Collins, passed down.
ST. LOUIS, January 2.-The ice gorges
still hold fast here, but theprospects favor
d speedy break up. The river is rising
and the rains which have fallen over a
large section ot the country are swelling
nearly all OF the, upper streams. The
Osage and Gasconade, tributaries Of the
Missouri which rise in the Ozark noun
tains south OF st. Louis, are said TO be
rising rapidly. II this be true, the Mis-
souri, below their mouths will break up
with rush and carry out the gorges here
with IN impetus that bids disaster to the
craft at our levee and below. Rain fell
here all last night and most oil to-day.
Weather colder tonight.
ST. LOUIS, January IA large cake of
ice became detached from the gorge at
Arsenal Island, below the city, this after:
noon, and carried two transfer boats and
barge down stream, and sunk barge
loaded with iron lying alongside the tow
boat Wild Duck, Gt Carondelet.