Ice, 1856

A rapid rise in the Licking River (emptying into the Ohio opposite Cincinnati) in late February 1856 brought out a great mass of ice which made directly for the Cincinnati shore where many steamboats were moored. Within minutes, four steamboats were sunk and within a few hours a total of eleven had gone to the bottom while many others were seriously damages (Cincinnati Gazette, February 25, 1856.) When the ice again broke up in the Ohio River, a year later six steamboats were sunk at the Cincinnati wharf and many others damaged. (ibid. February 6, 1857.)

from Steamboats on the Western Rivers: An Economic and Technological History, Louis Hunter