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Show The Heavy Damasrc. to Shipping. St. Louis, February 13. In addition to the damages sustained yesterday morning and evening by the shipping interests at that point from the break-up of the ice gorge, it has just been learned ithat the government fleet anchored behind Cairo Island, consist ice of three steamers and forty barges, and about twenty pile-drivers, valued at about $200,000, broke from their moc rings and floated down the river. Mayor Ernest states : that he haa received dispatches from J Chester, Illinois, to the effect that seven of the barges-have been recovered at that point. Two of the staamers were under a full pressure of steam when the fleet broke away, and he thinks they will sustain no damage of a serious nature. The fire3 of the third steamer, however, had been allowed al-lowed to go out. She may be seriously injured in-jured before recovered. No estimate of the r total damage can be made." |