The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-01-14
ICE! ZOE! ICE!
DESTRUCTION AND DISASTER.
Moving Ice In the Ohio River
From Shore to Shore.
Steamers and Large Number OF
'Barges Carried Away.

y
but stopped for q couple of hours, and be-
gan to move again-at 4 p. M, and the ice
has been surging past the city ever since in
large quantities.
The river began to fall at 8 o'clock last
night, and receded about five feet, but be-
gan to rise again at 3 o'clock this morning,
and rose one foot up to o'clock this MORN
ing, when it was about stationary. The
heavy ice gorge which formed at Maysville
and broke, began to arrive here at o'clock
this morning, and all morning the river was
filled with very heavy Ice, which extended
from shore to shore. The current in the
river is pretty strong, and the ice is moving
about five miles an hour.
An estimate of the amount of damage
done yesterday can not be given, but it will
go up pretty high into thousands.
GUIDING STAR CARRIED AWAY IN THE ICE.
The Cincinnati & New Orleans Packet
Guiding Star was moved up to the Newport
Bridge yesterday afternoon, and moored
just below the pier next to the Ohio shore
She was secured with only two lines and
the pressure of the heavy ice and barges
which drifted against her bow, was more
than the lines could stand, and with snap
like whip-cord they gave way, setting the
Guiding Star adrift in the heavy mass of
ice, which carried her down the river to
Riverside, where she was landed. In pass
ing under the Suspension and Southern
Railroad Bridges her chimneys were
knocked down, and in passing the Southern
Bridge she had very narrow escape from
being dashed to pieces against one of the
piers Pilot c. F. Owens, Capt JAS Hobson
and Mate Josh Harrison, and several 9th
ers, were aboard at the time. The Guiding
Star will remain al Riverside until the river
becomes clear of ice, when she will return
to the city and for repairs
LIBERTY NO. SUNK.
The towboat Liberty No. was cut down
by the ice yesterday in the Kanawha River
and sunk in twenty-four feet of water. She
was built by Capt. John K Booth about
nine years ago from the Liberty No. 3. He
sold her to r. R. Hudson and others, who
put in her three new steel boilers. and
afterward sold her to Gov. Murdock, of
Hartford City, who in turn sold her to DR..
1. P. Halle, of Charleston, by whom she
was owned when she sunk. She had
eighten-inch cylinders. Her value was
probably 100000
IhE fhObhRE MlICHEhb.
OF all the boats now at this landing the
Mitchell is probably the only one in any
immediate danger at this writing-93O a
m.-and she is in perilous position. She
| lies at the foot of Sycamore street. Her
| wharfboat but her stern is thrown far out
| by the wharfboat, and the Chas. Morgan,
which is wedged in between her and the
wharf. The ice grinds her wheel and aft
parts continually.
Capt. Moore says he can not predict what
will be the damage or the final result. A
large cake may strike her and cave her in,
or she may be cut away at any moment
BARGEs SUNK AND CARRIED AWAY.
A. Montgomery & Co. let go two loaded
barges yesterday, the coal belonging to
Mitchell, Tranter q Co. They afterward
landed in the bend above the Ludlow ferry.
Collier & Budd's landing escaped yester-
day with loss of only $100.
An empty Pomeroy barge, Sterling No 2,
passed down about S:15 o'clock this morn
ing. 1t was broken in two and the halves
drifted along about fifty feet apart.
A fatboat badly wrecked, passed the city
in the ice about clock a. m.
A large sound-looki i barge passed in the
ice at midnight. 1t was riding on top the
ice, and came near colliding with the Rob
ert Mitchell.
The Marine Railway lost part of raft of
| logs. The duke of the docks was forced on
shore, but it and the docks had been Sc
cured by thirty-two ropes, hawsers and
chains, and withstood the pressure.
| The splendid management of the feet of
sixteen loaded coal barges and five empties
at the Queen City Elevator Company's
Landing by Alex. johnson, Superintendent
of the Landing, was noted by the many
! lookers-on.
A small fiat, with skiff inside, and an
Ashland coal fiat, No. 81, passed the foot
of Broadway at ii o'clock this morning.
An unknown barge passed down at noon
riding on the ice, and in good condition.
Boatmen generally think the breakup a
''decent" one, and announce that all the
coal fleets in this vicinity, as near as can be
ascertained escaped damage this morning.
| A number of barges from above came down
| in the ice but we heard of none being
landed great many of them were either
stopped or will be stopped before they
travel many miles further.
An empty Lysle barge broke loose from
Ross Landing just before noon to-day, and
f1oated down on the ice, scraping several
coal fleets and one of the Southern Rail
| ROAD DTiuBe piers, Az last dCCOuHtS " was
still on its way South.
The Kate Waters, No. 2, is lying below
the Southern Bridge on the Kentucky side
She caught number of barges during the
night, but the ice is too heavy for her to
continue the good work today.
| NAVIGATION RESUMED SOUTH.
The Southern Transporta ion Company
will resume business this week. Captain
Vint. SAnkle, President of the Company,
started agents out among the shippers this
afternoon with orders TO secure freight at
the standard card rate for all points on the
Lower Mississippi River and New Orleans
The Robert Mitchell, lying at the New Or
| leans WAarfboat, will receive to-day, and
is announced to leave Thursday withou.
| fail.
THE Ed. HOBBS AND BARGEs
The Ed. Hobbs had hole cut in her hull
by the ice yesterday, and sunk between 8
and 4 o'clock this morning. She is lying
in \ Eery had condition, and will probably
prove atotal loss.
The Hobbs is owned BY the Wheeling
Towboat and Barge Company, and is val.
| ued at about $40. .000 and not insured She