The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1912-01-15
First Time in Many Years Traffic
is Tied up at Cairo Leyee Be-
cause Of Danger
PEOPLE CAN'T GET HOME
Inability ofSteamer Henry Marqua6d
to Run Makes Missourians
Take Long Detour

For the first time in many years,
boats on the Ohio river were COM
PEELED to abandon all idea of leaving
their moorings, yesterday morning.
The ice has filled the stream to such
an extent that even the heavy trans
fer boat, Henry Marquand, which
carries passengers for the Iron
Mountain, to Birds Point, Mo-, had
to abandon the regular night trip
Saturday.
Yesterday there was, besides the
Marquand, only one boat on the
Cairo leyee. These two boats were
caught on this side, by the ice and
have been unable to get across the
river to tie up to the Kentucky shore
with the remainder of the fleet
Standing on the Ohio levee one
can see a sight, that old residents
say, has not been equalled in
many years Huge cakes of ice
a hundred yards or more across are
floating down the current and along
the banks the ice has accumulated
in places for twenty yards from the
shore. The sand barges of the Hal
liday Sand Company are still strand
ed and the wharfboats yesterday had
TO be moored farther from the shore,
because of the rapid fall of the
stream.
Mercury at 27.
Throughout the city the suffering
from the cold was relieved yesterday,
when the mercury mounted to 2S
degrees at the Weather Bureau OBJ
servatory. The coolest registered was
16 above zero and at Z o'clock last
night 1t stood at 27. The forecast
promises a drop of 25 or 80 degrees
within the next twenty-four hours.
unless something happens to break
up the cold wave now sweeping over
the country from Medicine Hat, Can
ada.
The railroads are having less
trouble handling their traffic than
during the few days past. The
freight trains were able to move
yesterday, but the congestion Of
freight makes the problem matter
of days. The Iron Mountain is the
only road having trouble handling
it's passenger traffic. The tying up
of the transfer boat makes it neces-
sary for passengers to take the
Cairo and Thebes road to Thebes
and then cross over and make de-
tour of 100 miles to get less than
half that distance.
Yesterday morning an aged farmer
of Maiden, Mo-, was discovered
standing at the corner of Sixth and
Commercial avenue ruefully regard
ing the snow covered streets. He
had arrived at Cairo Friday after
noon and expected to take the trans
fer boat to Birds Point and thence
the Iron Mountain to his home. He
had been away from home several
weeks and was on his way back sick
and weary. He waited over Friday
night and until Saturday afternoon
expecting the boat to run. Late
Saturday night he was informed
that he would have to take the rail-
road to Thebes or lay over here for
an indefinite time. 1t was learned
yesterday afternoon that there were
several persons in the same posi-
tion.
Coal is Moving.
The coal situation will be slightly
relieved within the next few days
unless something unforeseen hap
pens. The coal carrying roads start
ed moving several thousand cars OF
coal yesterday manifesting the
freight for those places that are
suffering the worst. Several car
loads of coal were started for points
in Oklahoma and the west. where
persons have been calling for coal
and offering as high as $40 ton
with none in sight.
Throughout the Pacific Northwest
and the middle Rockies the coal
situation has been bad, but not SC
bad as 1t has been through other
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