Disastrous Break-up in the Ohio.
The ice on the Ohio, throughout its whole length, broke up Saturday night, Jan. 13, and on Sunday occasioned very great loss at most of the shipping points. At Cincinnati $100,000 damage to vessels is thought to have been done; and at Louisville, Jeffersonville, &c., much injury was inflicted. Considerable damage was done at West Wheeling, but the effects at Pittsburgh were most disastrous, and the ruin was unprecedented in the history of that city. Seventy-two steamboats and 150 barges were in the river, exposed to the crash of a vast volume of ice which came grinding down the upper Monongahela and reached the city at 6 o’clock A. M. The work of destruction lasted for several hours, and was witnessed by thousands of people, who lined the wharves and bridges of the Monongahela. Anything like an estimate of the total loss cannot be given, but it will be over $2,000,000. A large number of coal tipples and chutes were carried away, and the damage to the coal interest is such that it will require two months to place the mines in working order. It is feared that several lives were lost, but the confusion yesterday was so great that it was impossible to verify all the rumors.—Evening News.