, 1877-01-15
the Destruction Wrought at
2itte1urg Unparal1el-
eG in the Past.
Almost Every Boat for Hundreds
Of Niles a Total Wreck.
Hair. Breadth Escapes Of Passen'
GERS or the Road to Dearf'
u,.at Damage Done at Cincin-
pati aud JeflersOnvfllc.
Ina destroying Agency Working In
Almost .mpenetrable Darkness.

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Almost .mpenelrn0lo VarKnoss'
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6peesal Ntoofch to me Tribune:
Plrrsrrnd, fa.' jan. l4.-At oc'oeA .ns
morning tho ntsatlcc OF Inc most ats''us'n.
ice.gosge ever prceimtatcd upon TINS 'sE.un
struck tfsc craft III ttis c'ty ~ iooA ~.
Nonongai'ela Ever for eighty tahee WI,
this point, tie'tn deneSa'-tae .tonnusan.sA
Is slack ~atcr, tho t'dc he'h. rcta'nca ~
TEN III noolf a1tt 'lans' 4ne se'sle .'on,"s ',.,'
the last few weeks covered tne fi'es WV w
Held Of icc avernE1ng tllteen lne1'es' auo'e ~.
city. Beforc tho frost the ~aier III t''s a ,n..
hal been unusually !o~, anu latee "es.s
Hf cpal-l'onts lined the Shores ~.
both sides. Fur rscAfiy week past Aea'S in.n'
hare prevailed in the region h1 aioFea'to"h'
". Vu., at the hessl waters VI INC f'Fet' nut 'n'
siver lnc1 below, with a1'
ABSOLUTE WANT or roREsldhrt
took no prcrautlosl against The tuIptnuln- hoou'
IN Saturday elehh:cn feet Of wutcr wcfo r.
ported in tho river ut Greensboro. and tnch
destructive flow Il lee wns inevitable. Ii'en
the river men began to move, but they were
too ]atc. At 10Hclock on Saturday h'sht tac
river rose to twenty fcet III tue vicinity o1
Greensboro, and, mn hour afterwards thc
We Have way and tn: work nj destruction una
teash began. Tue Re on the slack-waicr ot tl'c
liver beginning at t".rtva, but short Distance
lelow, though probably the th!cRcst on the
iyer, guvc waY ut on.c Under the teFFl1c 1ossc
nth whieh tic lco hcla that' slaftlnE IT. s'l'
lcad-WAtera nt M0E5antowht swept uo"A upon
n'd crashed through the iela al u1ecnsoefo'
mrrylng the tcn asat oil the eEalt ilelu ~ ~
rresfstibly INTO the alacE-"ateF' "ntss "o-
ncnt before there hna hcen no l'cfecft'o.c cur
rent, there MAS now 4 raging to57chs' i4e lec.
Aells piled up into !Iunicnse ucrEs anu s"opt
1own the r'ycr .......
NAS0kiSc AND DESTROYING $780,.
everything within their path. hert OF heass
bafgcs, 1oa'lcd dcco as they could ho!d, were
hut plnything for tho ice. They we're swept
from their rnou.lngs tnM after ntr'ts'cr, and,
rylEl!ug III the vortex. were tracked ltse eEg-
ihells und sunk o,t If sight. Ten minutes aftcr
TIC ice started It, wus dotted all oYer With the
pllntcresl ttnbcra Of louis aud l'argcs that lad
represented thousands VI dollars. Al instance
..
THE TEl-:irtC POWER
of the Ice. WI, given at Franks
tuwn, whert MI unusually large
tect OF loaded br{cs wtsc M0ored.
II thu fleet wcru several Iron targcs, but they
were destroyed almost ut quickly Us the woodtn
boats. they wrsc hardly In tile grasp OF tic
luc before their sides scenHd 10 to forced to-
gether, and, while sonc Ct the WOODEN boats
were stitl 1oathtg With thu torrent, they sunk
with crash. II is said that
T1tE GKlaD1Eo ROAR. or THE ICE
could bc heard fur snilcs alo:E tho country
Rile. Wien intelligence was received IN
this city, M SATURDAY, 'nc'rilug. tint the
Ice hal meycd al aorg. .n,town, tho river
men appreciated the ffct that their
hItfn ian f,f finn