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1862 - In a fracas between angry citizens and railroad officials over a dispute about a gap that had been closed in the Ohio & Mississippi elevated roadbed, one person is seriously wounded and the rest are dispatched at bayonet point. Under guard, the gap is reopened and the flood waters once again ravage the town from the vicinity of Illinois Avenue to Market Street.The city has a rail mill at this time for the purpose of rerolling worn rails for use again. Henry Brundy's three-story, brick Western Hotel burns to the ground. James B. Eads builds seven alligator-shaped ironclads for the Union forces at the Nelson-Eads ship yard in Carondelet, Missouri. Historian J. Primm says this enables U. S. Grant to capture Island Number Ten in the Mississippi and forts Henry and Donelson on the Tennessee River.
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