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Show MANY STEAMBOATS EXPOSED TO FLOES By International News Service. MEMPHIS. Tenn.. Feb. Tee gorges at Richardson Land inc. Barfield. Ark., and Osceola. Ark., continued to hnld today, to-day, although the river cut a chanlel under un-der the ice. Huge cakes of ice floafcd past Memphis all dav, and hundreds of people waited along the shore for the big mass of ice to move. River conditions were favorable for moving steamboats and bargiH to places of safety. Nineteen steamboats and more than a hundred other era "t are safe in the government canal and Wolf rivr. Several miles above and below Memphis t'npre are a number of steamboats still exposed to the Ice floes. |