The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-01-14
TO THE DAILY INTELLIoENcER.
;THE.BREA'l.IK Ar UP. .I.l
The Damage at Cincinnati.
Large Number of Barues Swept
Away.
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The New Steamer Guiding Star Car
ried or.
Her Chlmneys Knocked Overheard
blythe Bridges.
The Damage at Points Above.
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The Damage at Points Above.

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" CINCINNATI, January Al a. NJ.
Special to the Iutellgsacer
The Ice broke here At 4 Pm, and La
been moving steadily since that hour. NJ
damage to steamers in the harbor excep
the new Guiding Star, which was carried
away at Or. N., but has since been landed
below without much damage.
The Ed. Hobbs which was lying above
Newport Water Works had twenty foo,
hole stove in her. They are keeping hei
aaoat and building bulk head. Hel
barge, All. Korte, was sunk. Nails being
removed and will be saved. Aboutfifteen
coal barges were sunk and carried away
Owned principally by, Pittsburgh parties
The general damage is less than wa. was ex. i:
pected. ENGINEER.
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CINCINNATI, January 1877 A. M.-The ice
is moving at Maysville five miles an hour
No danger Of stopping again. Itappears
to have risen Orytwelye feet AZ Au,
guSta the ice drumming very slowly. The
river is rising slowly.
The ice broke at Ripley shortly after
o'clock this morning: Thesbarge Etna
sunk no other damage is isteported.. HV'
MOVING AT CINCINNATI.
CINCINNATI, January 1879 r. M.-The ice
has just begun moving here. 49,, -,
oSE or THE whXLRs naRdEs sunk. 5s ~
Cairo, January 13.-Arrived: Fisk, from
Paducah, at p. NJ. and returned at 0p. NJ.
Immense fields Of unbroken ice, reaching
from shore to shore, passed down.! carry,
ing away several flats and the lierryboat
Nebraska City, and sinking barge Of nails
belonging to the tow of the Whale. But
little ice is passing hero tonight; ;,nonea at
Paducah. River l5'feet inches and ris:
ing. Weather cloudy. Thermometer S60.
--THB,wHALE~ IosEs'A BARGE At CAIRO. <
- ClNCISE&rI, January, ,13.-Thereywas an
alarm from the river at ,plN. when the
ice started, but It soon stopped until 1 r.
NJ, when it again broke loose and has been
running strong ever since.
A large number Of empty and-loaded
coal barges have already been earned
away, but their number cannot be &C.
curately stated. At about o O'Clock to-
night the new steamer Gniding Star,
which had taken refugebelow the Newport
bridge behind one Of the piers, on the
Ohio side, was tornloose and swept down
in eicc, and in passing under the Coving-
ton bridge one Of her chimneys was
knocked overheard, and she lost the other
at the Southern Railroad bridge. She has
gone down the stream with the ice and
nothing has been heard from her.
|, The ice now; passing is saidStoa be from
the! !gorgelat FodrISIile.s tifttDaB !
Gazette specials report the breaking Of
the gorge in the Kanawha at o A. NJ, run
ming an hour and breaking again at 10 A..
VI, moving with tremendous force, Sew
eralbteafners and @harfBoats; hafbored in
the mouth OF the Elk, were thrust against
the keystone bridge, knocking, it down.
The steamer Liberty No, 4 was so badly
damaged that she sunk in "a feet Of water.
The Ice continued running until p. NJ,
when it again gorged at Portsmouth.
Ice from above Huntington has been
passing since 5 r. NJ. The steamer Eldor-
ado was left on the shore there by sud
den fall in the river. The boat has not
been injured S.IEaAV
Frankfort, KyY-reports eleYensfeet, OF
water in the Kentucl<ysriyer, withapros-
pect Of breakingsup in that stream to.
night, as a heavy rise is reported from
above that point. OH sSI
Layreneebprg, Inds says the gorge in
the Ohio at Madoc broke at or NJ and
lrising rapidly u Ea'1ti i's Is sradi
The Guiding Star is new and ono Of die
finest boats running frofn this point She
has made bdtone trip between athis city
tand New Orleans She has capacity for
\ 400 tons cost when completed $4,000
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