The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1877-01-16
acknowledgement.
The Immense Losses by the Pre-.
sent Break Un In tlle River.

FN"A 80 Ns$A@ AA AAAN ANANNAs
We gave yesterday pretty full ac-
count by telegraph Of the immense and
unprecedented destruction Of boat and
barge property at various points along
the shore from this city to Brownsville
on the MonongOhela. No such losses
among the river men were ever
before known at Pittsburgh. They
fall upon comparatively small
number Of persons, as there was no in
aurancc worth speaking Of on the boats
and barges crushed by the ice. The in
surancC companies have fought shy Of
thlsspecies Of property for n long time
past, and have put the rates no high that
owners have deemed il preferable
choice Of evils to carry the risks them.
selves. The aggregate loss at Pitts
bnrgh and at points between that
city and Brownsville il put down
at $l.5OO,OOO, and this amount ia
said not 10 be an cxaggeration,
The Brownbrothers alone lost $500, 900,
not counting the loss Of the Bigley AMI
barges at Blennerhassetl's island. They
had 70 empty boats and harEes aud %
loaded boats, besides two steamboats, and
n lug boat. Fawcclt ~ Son lose $4,000;
Joseph Williams $4,000; Grand Lake
Coal Co. go, 900, and O'Neil " Go. $50, 900
Besides these there are many others who
lost smaller amounts.
The amount Of property endangered
was enormous. In the Monougahela
from its mouth TO Greensboro, the head Of
slack water, 10 miles above Pittsburgh,
lay over seventy steamboats,, tow and pas
Senger, worth in The aggregate over one
million dollars. Besides these there
were nearly eight hundred coal boats
and harges, worth at least half n million
'oi dollars. In these barges was about
100000 bushels Of coal, aggrcgating in
value nearly one million two hundred
thousand dollars. Then there were dry
docks, coal tippTea, and other works en-.
donocrcI v,lneI NJ cav S1nD mn. u,.L;n
-, -
'"' '''"' N".uu VI S'"'''sete' properly
between SS,5OO,OOO and $1,000 O,OOO-m
immense sum. .Gia. ..Ig..I.
TLo fo,Iow;r, ,r,,,,;, ,ooo, - ,L,
7'"i "'Io""' VI ''e
scene presented NJ rl'tsDurgh on The eve
oil the break up and during the great
crash of ice We copy from the Ge-cHe n
fin, c;,v.
'' 80 Wy
az ~. TWO CLOCK Satnrnay alternoon tile
lnteillsenSe came ~, tI'at INC ice had broken
~ 1 "reeHSEoro. lne news iSngthened The
iactS 3' 'ne iiEeF"ien' anu caused re-
","le" """Dle" "ctlNlty' an "oaIS IN which
steam T Aau no! a4sGaly 3een RAISED We're
,n mrsu up N"H Tue ,, n.aIN uehss smoke from
!"e'F % lowering StaSkS ~ 'hey lay IN "
'Ius row SIuI oy S'ue At t.e "har'' Siied
G'ooIi over 'Ile surrounding .'t atmosphere
.Mal%aS i reiected IN lHelaees oi the anxious
T"nsrS' W, ~ 'onr . eloUk u !eIestah from
h"S Tg.,'E.v S.s,.n. aIn anonTeeu ana' .he EStst
h"t.a "tGH T 1Hsu "hu ,i", sMsr' ,; SVetYthlnE
H ] ;n,o.u,,s Jisnntot", ;.o", "H ~ w "rH
"a,., ai' ~ ,,p'nI",;., I I' i ""oi' sat'
com;rg ] ~ Jis"s,or T5o ''IG ,;r"roH """ H"',i ~,
] ,%raMltL r"I"nH hoursot, ,ha r;'I,, It' ,oa, al
aJ :" ,nT f." t.om tLn;s Lna,a LS"' =, ,Ia, ,,',
Mororr.%sI. IiaUs" whsr" ,he :" NAVY '"S
irom oSovs was received ""S '' "'
ILomt D o,cIocl. Tho alarm r,, o;,o,
that Ihe icc was porceJ in pooI g. i
,nJ when Tho occnmnIntionu Gron, oLnyn
c',mc dawn il was exncc,cd that ,Lc "r mas ~
would sween down with rss;stlosS f"r"o @
'rhn r;verman hurried IN tLo;r Lo,ts al
tha signal of ncor Jonoor wns sLrioLoi !
Inv imSn,nerabIc whis,Ies nisrcinr @ ,L"
li;Il n;gbt air with tbe nnricri ~ ovii
Many S"rsons in the civ who hal Loom
aw,i,;nT tb;s signal rnsied IN III" wLa. # +
nmong them n GG-Shc renorinr MIMI
,fter ninuio n,,saJ Lv mil tLay Ian",S,
rncd into Lours anL siiiI tLc crasL ~ ,ho i"
cnm;n1 gorge wos moi L.srJ E,nn,
hsIow L6wHSsr Il was is,rnsJ IL =, T ,I,n
yoros NJ Rrnnot Island L,J brot"H ;nSt ,
abont the time the whisilinc comnrpreJ
Thia ira CarrinA atVov with ~ a YuD,ha.
of LarSos "nJ G,to ,;sJ nM Loiom '""''
TLn 1ono | ";nLI M 81 % %oioi;n "ea"I' J .;,;.
fall, ,U"so 60, "nJ A. "M ""Is
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,% :" pe"," p" s"siv" a." .ia y" t,e oti"ges,
%e ,%e o,,;n u a s.,.;su e tSu' "nSs Sa "a
ane , 'ou''I's " IeStI 'I'Ion '2ou'l I'e roar
H.n craSl. .s,l' o.. ',,e E"Isc WA: Ieatu' anu u
~" %,"'u'S 'i' ~. .s willie ufeIs u sme
n.s,; s Sy"", IT,. ~ wis Ser,', 'r"Ss svi
"y'"l"S @ neaTru ~ ~ !. eI'he. ne ~: s'Ie SoIIu
'SvI % s.I"oH s,e i'iers .. .e
;n % %Ioct. ~ ',v Mo;so ~, sounS ., iS n
liz s "Ior"I Ls'"I o@o ''"I p' So"""eu , mi'c'
,;ome '; ,; $1,000 urn, anu Tue sta .! uesIFGe-
';o' P"'IR' i"'''' WI S''Hct sue ''e