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Show FIVE BOATS SUNK IN MISSISSIPPI MEMPHIS, Tenn.. Jan. 22. With! five boats, valued at moro than $150,-1 000, sunk and shipping and docks be-' tween this city and Cairo, 111., gen-j orally endangered, conditions along' the Mississippi river north of Mem -' phis today were reported tho most I serious in years owing to tho accumu-1 latlon of ice floes that chokes the I stream at half a dozen points. In addition, ad-dition, several coal barges wero torn from thoir moorings hero and other craft damaged. nn |