Disasters On The Western Rivers

According to thej.Lonisville Couiiert stiUistics, the list of disaster on the western rivera since the incoming of tho present year has already assumed terrible) proportions. During the time, only five months, upwards of one hun dred livefl have been lost, ono million and a h:ilf dollars lost, three seriom explosions have occurred, forty-four boats have been snap;ged, seventeen bnrnt, flve lost and injurodby collision, twen ty steamboata lost or oripplbd in ptorms, and one hundred and nineteen barges, coal-boats, and otVier flatboats lost by storm. Tho number of serious nccidents 6ums up to two hundred and twenty-onc.