People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 February 1897 — ICE GORGE BREAKS UP [ARTICLE]

ICE GORGE BREAKS UP

MUCH DAMAGE REPORTED A 1 LOUISVILLE. KY. New Orleans and Memphis Packet* Caught —Both the Allegheny and Mo nongahela Rivers Are Poll of Floating Ice —Coal to Bo Moved. Louisville, Ky., Special: An Ice gorge fifteen feet high and twenty miles long, which has been forming for several days, gave way Sunday afternoon. Several New Orleans and Memphis packets have been caught in the ice and compelled to lie up. If these have not succeeded in flndng refuge in tributaries the loss may be large. A telephone message from the scene states that the Buckeye State ran into Bine river to escape the ice. The water in Blue river quickly rose with the passing of the gorge and quickly receded, leaving the steamer stranded on the shore. Her pilot-house and smokestacks were demolished and it is now thought she will be a total loss. Her value is $40,000. PENNSYLVANIA RIVERS RISING. Good Boating Stage* Now A**nrad in the Alleghany and Monongahela. Pittsburg, Pa., Special: Both the, Alleghany and the Monongahela rivers are full of floating ice and are rising rapidly, but a dangerous flood is not apprehended. A good boating stage of water is assured, however, and between seven and ten million bushels of coal will be shipped to southern points at once. Several tows were made up and started, but had to lay up because of the ice. The Monongahela avove Brownsville and the Alleghany above Kittanning are still frozen over, and as the weather is getting colder they" will probably not break up at this time.