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Show RIVER STEAMERS WRECKED BY ICE y'aducah, Ky., Jan. 30. The ex-slon ex-slon stefVjers Spread Eagle,A1-; Eagle,A1-; Gray Eatleand, Peoria, owned byj the nHsgle Packet Cooipany,. .of St. Louisa were caught In Ice gorges and sunk In mid channel fourteen miles below here late this afternoon. The loss Is estimated at $250,000. It Is feared that, river men, adrift on runaway boats and barges torn from their moorings, may be lost. The boats were swept Into the Ohio on the crest of a rise of nearly fifteen feet. (It Is estimated that the shipping loss will totalt$l,000,000.. Several dry' docks and barges havo been torn from their1, moorings and carried away: u v . i" yjj-j |