The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1877-01-15
Of people, who lined the wharyea and
bridges Of the MononRahela.

Inc Bennett and Chiettain, two side.
wheel packets owned by the Brownsville
and Geneva Navigation Company, we're
swept from their moorings at Browns.
vile, and both totally wrecked.
Their value and insurance are unknown.
The following tug boats in Pool No. /,
were sunk; +. ], Grace, jim Brown,
Joseph Warner, Minnie Harris, Relief
and Alex. Foster. The Lion was car.
ried away from the south side, she IL
smashed up and will probably be a total
loss.
The Commercial gives the following list
OF boats damaged; Charley Brown, bad.
ly; ]. s. Keller, stacks down and wheel
smashed; Jos. Walton, stacks down and
hurricane roof broken; Nellie spee1, lar
board engine crippled; q. Williams, hole
knocked in the hull; Jack Gumbert, the
MCKeesport and Elizabeth packet, lies
on her side at McKeesport; Ben Wood,
is edged in between two abntment, op-
posite Glenwood; Elizabeth, carried away
from Elizabeth and slightly injured.
COAL boats AND RARGEs lost.
The following is list Of the coal boats,
bargcS, flats, &C., lost so far as could be
ascertained up to the latest hour last
night Grand Lake Co., IA loaded boats
and n number OF empty barges; Wm. II.
Brown & Co., Pool No. l, 80 loaded and
o. empty boats swept away and probably
lost; Fawcett < Son, Pool No. |, 10 LOADED
boats, : barges and fuel boats lost, one
boat stopping at Lock No. l all night;
o'Neil 4 Co., Pool No. 8, LOADED barges;
J. 3. Sneathen & Co., Pool No. 3, one
loaded barge; Phillips q Mettenzwey, one
coal boat; s. Horner & Son, one loaded
coal boat, several empty barges and two
loaded barges carried away, but will be
saved; ]. & j. Gilmore, 4 coke barges
sunk below McKeesport; James Watson,
Pool No. |, entire fleet Of barges carried
away. The entire leet above Franks.
town, owners unknown, was swept away.
Foster, Blair & Co., Monongahela City,
whole fleet lost, except one boat; Stone
Bros, McKeesport, one empty fiat; Gray's
Iron Line lost two model barges; John
Dippold x Son, three barges, sunk at
landing. ]. S. Mcdonald, Pool No. 8, lost
one aud probably two loaded boats.
Riddle, Coalman & Co., one coal boat at
Campbell's landing, three nut coal boats
at Birmingham bridge, loss estimated at
$1,000, John A. Wood x Sons Pool No.
!, four loaded boats and q lot Of
empty ones; Geo. Lysle & Sons, four
loaded boats; Joseph Walton, West Eliza
qeth, seven flats loaded with nut coal,
three empty boats and one loaded barge
carried away from this city, total loss
$4,000; J. c. Risher & Co., six loaded
barges from Laughlin's furnace, two from
Benefits landing, and seven empty
barges; Hornet Coal Company, four
empty barges carried away and forced
ashore; Samuel Clark lost some boats,
the number not stated; John MCCloskey,
two empty flats; Jacob Thonner, several
barges from Glenwood. a large number
of.Coal tipples and shutes were carried
away, and the damage to the coal in
terest OF this neishborhood is such
that il will require two months to place
the mines IN working order. All the dry
JOCKS 'h'S sac oil bfoW'vll'e were car
riea away with one exception The dams
OIL 'he sIacx"a'er Navigation Comf=":
escaped WIN very ilgh' injuries. any
Ihlns IKE an estimate ot Tue total loss
cannot Se give" ou1 II VII, De ever Two
nllllon uo''%ts. =! lS reared several lives
were loS! Du'' Inc confusion en- the
"haf'es Is so great II Is impossible to
verify al FnmofS anu 'hefe hos been "a
YET Dnt one body recovered that ot an
unknown laOorer, whose body was found
near the FONT this morning
THE LOSS AT LOUISVILLE
LOUISVILLE, January IA survey oil
Inc river here at midnight leads to the
BELIEF that no damage can now be done
to steamers. Thus lar 3 coal boats and
perhaps have been sunk
CINCINNATI, January H.-The stage
Of water at noon was about 80 feet, since
then the.river has been receding steadily,
and at p. N. had fallen 2 feet. Tho ice
gave way at Aurora at5P.M. Weather
cloudy with light rain.
At Madison the ice has been moving
since noon. A boat supposed to be the
BSnnock City,lies on the Kentucky shore,
opposite Brooksburg and they are unload.
ing her.
AT North Bend two coal barges we're
wrecked and two carried away. A large
number of empty barges are reported
passingsthere.
The gorge at Syracuse moved down to
Minersville, and ia now 10 feet high; no
damage reported.
JEFFERsoNvnLE, IND, January a.
About 4o'clock this afternoon the river
rising fast, and rose 5 feet in
two hours, the ice moving 10 miles an
hour. The ferry dock was partly torn