The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-01-15
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| Specials to the STAR:
PITr,BURG, Jan. 15.-The ice gorge
here broke yesterday, dealing destruc-
ton and damage along its course.
Steamboatmen and coal men had hopes
that the breakup might be postponed
till some more gradual thaW would take
out the ice without damage to the craft
aud public works all along the river.
Such delusive hUpes were dispeled Fri
day by the news that the river had risen
rapidly at Brownsville, sixty miles up
tine Monongahela, and that the ice was
coming down in the most threaten
ing way. Measures were taken
by the river men to meet the
danger so far as lay in their power.
Tue Grand Lake Company lost II coal
boats aud number of empty Darges.
Jewett Il SON lost 16 loaded boats, 7
bArges auu fuel boats; O'Neal & Co, 8
loaded bargas; W. ii. Brown & Co., 80
loaded aud ~ empty boats carried away !;
Phillips 81 MitteusWay, l barge coal; j.
b. Sneathen & Co., l barge coal; ,.
lIorner u Son, loaded barge aud sew
eral empties; j. & j. Gilmore, coke
barges; Gray'5 IRON Line lost model
Darges, empty; Stone Bros. lost boat;
Foster, Blair u Co, Monongahela City,
All IOSG DuI L DOdtI JdLleS w dISoui 6n-
tire fleet carried off from FrankstOwn;
john Dippold &' Son, 2 model barges
sunk; j. 5. Mcdonald lost 2 loaded boats.
Riddle, Coleman Sc Co. estimate their
loss at 1000. s. Clark lost il number of
loaded boats. Jacob Bonner lost seN-
eral barges from Glenwood. HOrner
Coal Co., 4 empty barges forced ashore.
j. &. RIckert & 60. lost loaded barges;
Joseph Walton, flats nut coal, empty
aud loaded barge. Loss estimated at
$40, 600
George Lysle & Son, four loaded boats.
j. McCIosky lost two flats. John A.
Wood & Son eight loaded boats, two
fuel and a lot OF empty barges.
The following towboats were lost and
disabled: II. j. Grace, sunk; Jim
Landing and is a total loss; Minnie Har-
ris,, sunk; Relief, sunk; Alex. Foster, |
sunk; Chieftain and E. Bennett, sunk |
below Brownsville, old and not vaIua- |
blc; James Warne, sunk.
Towboats Not Injured-Oakland, |
Sam Clark, Baltic, Bengal Tiger, Coal |
City, Tom Dodsworth, SIN ky City, Sam
Miller, Jos. Cook, R3solute, Stella. |
Fearless, Enterprise, Ben. Wood, Mich
igan, Storm, Tom Rees, Jas. Gilmore, |
Rover, Hornet No. ?, Iron Mountain,
ueOs 1sOuelbS, bOU MSCohHells CefeH
Sons, j. d. johnson, Little Giant, My !
Choice, Coal Valley, Il. d. Wood, Fred. |
Wilson No. 2, Hunter No. 2, j. IL. Cam. |
den, Charley Mcdonald, Iron City,
Reindeer, Mary Ann S. Horner.
Towboats damaged-Charley Brown,
j. 5. Keller, Joseph Walton, Nellie |
Speer, J. B. Williams aud Elizabeth, |
slightly. Fifteen to twenty ripples are
destroyed and large number of dry
docks carried away. The Jack Gumhert |
was injured, and is lying on her side.
CoalDoats sayed-John Dippold &. Son
saved barges, loaded; j. 9. RIsker &
Co., 21 loaded barges, and Tipple safe.
John Snowdon is safe. Stone Brothers
saved Is loaded boats, and the steamer
j. A. and W. Stone. The Hayes' Coal |
Company's steamer Diamond and barges |
safe. The Wha.e Company's boat and
bnrges safe.
The ice is gorged to the left of Brunots |
Island, with iorLY-tWO boats, loaded and |
light, piled up. Some OF them may be |
saved.
The Youghiogheny and Allegheny
Rivers are still closed. The Mononga- |
he!a rose to IS feet, but is now falling,
with Is feet in the channel, and running
full of heavy ice. Weather cold and
freezing hard.
A coal barge before noon struck the
Newlot and Cincinnati ferry
boat Cincinnati Belle, which
as lying on the Newport side, and
opened her sides. The bOat was saved
from sinking.