The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-02-16
THE BREiG-J PiTST.LOUlS
THB EB RUNNING OUT WITHOUT
HUGH DAMAGE.
one o. Two Steamers and Several
Barges Carried Away Floods
Ia The SusquehaHna.


~. LoUIs, Mo-, February 18Th
ice IN the Lsrbor made another NOV
Saturday night and q huces field O
perhaps several acres brose % abog,
Elevator 3. lust above Chouttau ave
nue.. sud q ating down the Misf0ur
shore 3 crowded and cruuChed al1nl
until % was etCpped by the solid ma .
which lay packing in tightly Iron
shore b shore ON the cotton com
press sOuth. On its way down, how.
ever. % ear led two ice and two sand
b2rges away from their moorings neal
Elevator =, and, alter playing with
them awhile. lodged them against the
bank al Csriol street without damage
At the foot a Rutger street lay toe
Wrecking steamer 4. i. Eckert, owned
hy Carroll & Powell, insurance agents,
and used by the Marine Underwriters.
This bcn. was struck with tremendous
force amt great chunks OF ice were
piled up a ainst and rolled over her
guards. The pressure wac TO greet
Tor her spals, which. had been IigeeI
70 keep her or shore, ard she was
pushed partly out on the bank and her
side crushed IN lOr about sixty iett
Il is thOught, however, tha! she can
easily be repaired. Further doWnthe
Nellie Peck was crowded on shore and
she lost her spara, end some other
minor damage was done. Yesterday
morning, D5,Ween z and 8 o'clock,
the long lo1ked.ior general break
up took place, and hinge masses q ice
havs been flowing through tae harbor
al day, hut the damage has been re-
mari ably small, not q steamer Of any
real value being 80 far reported hurt.
The nest serious injury was 10 the
Lulu Worth, q tow-bout lying at the
foot OF Barton street. She wac swept
out into the stream, and after being
tumbled aud whirled about a good
deal she was hurled with great force
sgainst the high perpendicular bank
just below the arsenal, badly ba. cred,
and sunk, nothing nov remaining
shove the water except a part Of her
stern and her pllothouse. The trans
fer boat l. V. Bogy, wing near Chou
teau avenue, had her larbosrd wheel
smashed. The Gen. Rucker, q tow
boat, va lammed up on the bank.
The transfer boat j. O. NJ. Mullen has
a wheei-house stove in, and lost her
rudder. She WAS taken across the
river. The terryboat Andrew Christie
lost her rudder. aad has one side Of
her upper works somewhat ismmed.
The Gray hol barge lying 81
CarondeleL valued at 5000, gnd
laden with 250 tons oi non ore.
had her whole side et1ve IN
and she sunk. Several harges belong
ing to tho Mississippi Valley Barge
Company, and lying at Belmont, a
few miles be'oH Cairo, were carried
away Friday night One Of them yas
with bulk corn and the Others
were empty, The towhoa. Oakland
WIS cent from Cairo Saturday 10 fol-
low and recover them. The Missouri
river has broken up rs far west as the
mouth Il the Usage, and that ttream
and ell the southern tributaries this
side OF there are running oat freely,
but there are no signs Of lreshets,
and unless heavy rains fall there will
be ~ hoOd here, for a while at least,
In addition TO the damsges sustained
yesterday morning aud evening by the
SHINING mterests at this point from
she brtAs-up # the ice-gorge il has
Just been learned tha the government
feet, which was anchored behind
Carfolts leland, has been injured per
haps u a serious extent. The fleet is
an extensive one, consisting Of three
steamers, forty barges and about
pie drivers, and was valued in
OF about S2O0,000. The harbor
where II was anchored was supposed
~ De the Balest in this part OF the
river, hut tho great force Of the float
lng ice caHsed all tho boats 10 break
from their moorings and 0oat down
sbe river. Maj. Ernest OF the Corps
Civil Engineers states tina. he has
received dispatches from Chester, H.,
10 the effect that seven of the harges
been recovered at that point, all
In good condition, Two OF the steam
ora we're under full pressure Of steam
when the neet broke away, and he
that they will sustain no dam
age OF 0 serious nature. The free Of
he third steamer, however, had been !
allowed to 10 ont, as it was thought |
that the danger had passed.
She may be- seriously injured before
recovered. No estimate of the total
oan be made, as only a few OF
he whole number Of vessels hsve
been heard from. No serious damage
n this harbOr has resulted ia addition
% tha. Inflicted yesterday. The GEN
srsl Gilmore, M OF the steamers, has
gone aground a. the foot Of Carroll's
with elk barges. The Gilmore
D = Htaunch craft, and it ia thought
will escape with hut slight dam
Thett amer A. A. Humphreys is
ltii hoetine down the river without,
ls yet, having been injured. Two of
plle.drivers have been caught ri
Twin Hollows, uninjured, ana q
'escuing steamer succeeded In muoiinQ
.wo more OF the escaped bsrges al !
Jhesley lslend IN good condition.
vac FioO1S IN the SUsQuchanna.
HARRIs a1RG, Pa, February To-
The 8ood caused by the break up in
husquehanDa has about subsidized.
10 consequence of a break up
n the welt branch ana in the small
streams il noe several feet above the
- which it had fallen last
night alter the gorges had given way.
. canvass Il the lower sections Of the
atty shows 2 great smouut OF damage,
at llom $25 900 to $4,000,
md Tails almost entirely on the poorer
olSss OF people, The rise was so sud
len that they could not remove their
furniture from the first 10 a higher
Door. The P5unsy lvauia Steel works
and Az that potion Of the town ly-
ing along ths railroad was ia four feet
81 water, and the damage there is also
sreSA at Mlddietowu 30 strong wss
.he current siter the rovqes gave way
HAT a channel dity iset wide wa,
washed IN Ough ore of the large
Islands. The people there were in
great danger, but succeeded In remoy-
NIX all their g1ods. The highest fir.
are reached mere was 2l3 feet. three
iaet lower than in 1865. when the
great food occurred. Along the rail.
west several wrecks occurred on
account OF laod.sIdes, but no person