Show AN ICE GORGE BREAKS A Coal Fleet at Cincinnati Goes Down with the Ice A Blizzard in New York Canes n Suspension of Traffic on Broadway Broad-way Other Casualties Casuates CINCINNATI Jan 5This evening the ice gorge in the Ohio river broke with nobody knows precisely what loss in boats and coal fleets Heavy Ice has been floating float-ing and forming in the river for the past two or three days and an ice gorge this morning formed between the Louisville I and Nashville bridge and the Cincinnati Southern railway bridge covering a distance dis-tance of two miles Floating ice came down and joined the gorge while the river below was clear The rver immense frozen raft locked all the coal fleets nine packets and several towboats tow-boats The harbor boats Comet Ben wood and Alice Barr tried all day to break the gorge but without result At 430 oclock the immense body of ice began be-gan to move in a solid mass The packets and tow boats to all appearances escaped with light injury but on the other hand every coal fleet suffered The principal destruction is the following follow-ing Pittsburg Coal company four barges and two floats value 10000 Collier Budd Co four barges and several floats value 510000 At Ludlow Ky Mr Buck lost sixteen barges valued at f10000 Seven miles further down the river two barges and three floats were taken away value flO000 Other inevitable inevit-able incidental losses are estimated at 530000 making the total S100000 But the danger is not over and the situation is still threatening At 9 oclock tonight the gorge stopped at North Band thirteen miles below Another gorge at the same time formed just above Lawrencebnrg Ind twenty three miles down the river Between the two gorges the water is clear and there are locked coal boats and barges such a have not gone down It seems scarcely possible of saving any property in the prison of ice The river is open above but floating heavy ice I another gorge forms be done here tonight greater damage will |