Virginia free press & farmers' repository. [volume] (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1827-1832, 1832-02-23
GREAT rREsnEr.

GREAT PRESHET
L,nadafion at Piffsbug and su6mer.
sion Of .3AegAony fown.-rhe Balti.
more Gazette 10 indebted to the kind
ness Of Mercantile friend for the fol-
lowing extract Of letter, dated
"PITrsBuRo, rxB. 10.
"AI Pittsburg is in q state Of alarm
to-day; the rivers are rising, and have
now got forty feet higher than low wa
ter mark. Allegheny town, opposite.
10 under wafer-we hear that many
lives have been lost there, but cannot
ascertain the number. The river 10
still rising, and SIX feet more will over
dow all Pittsburg. I saw boats this
morning taking people out Of the cham
Der windows, FROM large blocks of brick
buildings. All the houses on the In.
lands below here are swept Cd. The
Ferry boat over the Monvneahels, that
usually lands at the fer&n( . bill, has
just crossed and came - street,
THE principal business u here in
front Of stores and houses, and then
the passengers and horses stepped on
to the pavement and walked out. Will
iiamson's Hotel IL surrounded with
water; ours is two squares from it,
The water was never known TO be high
er than il Is now, and how much higher
1t will get 10 unknown-peopls viii be
afraid to 20 to bed to night unless il
begins to fall"
Extract Of letter from the Postmaster, dated
''wAsHISGTos, (PA.) FEB. II. ~
''Sin-The Western mail stage has
just arrived. Il was not able TO reach
nearer Wheeling, to-day, than foar
miles. owing to the high waters-snd
brought no western mail. The driver
says, the water was up to the top Of
the door Of the Stage Office in Wheel
ing. and that the food is unprecedent.
ed in the Ohio. am obliged to throw
this in the Way Mail bag. as il is the
only one we have TO send. He left the
mail for the West at the tavern where
his passage was interrupted by the wa
ter"
A letter from Washington, Pa. da.
ted 18th inst. says-The Ohio river at
Wheeling was on the rise when the
stage left. There has been number
Of houses swept of from the lower part
OF the town, and q number Of houses
have passed Wheeling in the river, be.
sides hay and grain stacks, barns, &c.
IN great numbers--the destruction Of
property must be very great.
Thu yhnla lan~tt .f A.
cross the Susquehanna ut Columbia,
lately injured by the breaking up Of
the ice in the river, vas $500 feet; a.
bout one third Of il is gone, and the
remainder 10 more or less injured in
different places. II was commenced in
1919, and made passabls in the fail of
1914; and we learn that this 10 the fret
injury IL ever sustained from The ice.
The cost was about $3.50 We have
not understood what course the di.
rectors have concluded TO adopt, but
their we'll known enterprise and ability
lead 10 the belief that the most efficient
measures will be resorted 10, tor prompt
y repairing the injury sustained.
The water ON Tuesday last was A.
bout 10 feet above low water mark,
and so inches higher than il was ct the
break in January, 1913. Its height
was about the same rs IN 1894. Ira
dition speaks Of high GOOD in I74o.
which far exceeded that Of '84--and
inferriDg that no intermediate food
was higher than that Of the latter year,
20 follows that the water reached a
greater altitude on the 9TH inst. than il
has done for 90 years.