Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-05-01

Notes OF the frame and Bulletins oil
- Boating News.


nipbt. the marks showing IL feet inches
of water in the channel.
The Scotia, en- route to Cincinnati, passed
down yesterday.
large trip. B
The Stockdale passed up yesterday.
The Diurnal leaves for Parkersburg TO-
day.
The Andes is due up from Cincinnati to-
day. .,-
ct will resume her trade to-day;
The following towboats passed Saturday
and Yesterday Up-Ella Layman and Hope,
with toys of staSes. Down-0n Saturday,
John A. Woods. Alex. Swift, Sam. Brown,
Dick Fulton. Sam Clark, Onward, Sampson
No. 9, Charley Brown, J. NJ. Bunton, Nellie
Walton. Bengal Tiger, Joseph Walton, Fred
Wilson No. 2, Alarm, Ben Wood, Tom
Reese No. ., Smoky City and Nellie Spears.
Yesterday.-W. 0'Neal, Coal City, Diamond,
James A. Blackmore, Raymond, Homer.
Ed. Hobbs and Williams, with lows OF coal.
The Little Anna will be of for repairs
for few days and the Welcome will take
her place.
Capt. Seamon was very indignant on
Saturday. over the IIicHigsHcer'S statement
that he had been reported for carrying too
much steam. He says the most he carried
was Is pounds less than the law allows.
On next Saturday week, the 81. Lawrence
will carry down grand excursion to Gin
cinnati, to the May Musical festival. The
st. Lawrence will take parties at excursion
rates, and affords excellent accommodations
for passengers. The steamer Will remain
at Cincinnati until Wednesday evening,
giving the people opportunity 10 hear the
best concerts. 1t is very pleasant way to
travel. the only way to travel, and the trip
will be made doubly pleasureaole by travel
ing with such polite and attable officers as
command the st. Lawrence. Prof. Kramer
and orchestra will add TO the enjoyment of
the voyage by catering to the Terpsichorean
tastes of the voyagers.
At Pittsburgh at present, are 6,2s6 600 OF
coal TO go out on the present rise. Ot this,
2,l54 600 will go to Cincinnati and i,li2oVo
to Louisville.
Capt. Win Coulson. OF the Pittsburgh
and ST. Louis Packet Line, the odd vet
eran," left on Saturday for Pittsburgh,
10 put more first-class boats in the Pitts
burgh. Wheeling and st. Louis line.
When the dams are completed on the
Monongahela, the Pittsburgh and Geneva
racket will extend their trips to Morgan
town. w. Va.
Mark Twain. exploit. humorist and lee
turer, tried TO pub wool over old mariners
last Sunday and taking the Gold Dust for
river voyage South, but an old shipmate
recognized and exposed him. He regis
tered as C. J.. Samuels, which means
Samuel LanghOans Clemens. He goes
through to New Orleans by steamer. chang
ing boats at Nicksburg.
There was a busy air OF preparation
about the river yesterday in anticipation OF
a rise. All available boats were industrious
" engaged in getting coal tows in shape,
lodging about and just missing each other;
nearly all the large boats expecting to 60
out were fired up or firing up TO start at
an hours notice; pilots and engineers were
summoned by telegraph from their rural
furloughs, and all looked as if in couple
of DAYS there would be a harbor all desert
cd.-PiutbWrgh Dispatch.
Jas. ReeS 4 Son have closed contract
with Major John d. Adams for fine side
wheel boat complete. Yesterday ReeS X
Son contracted with the Pittsburgh Boat
Nard Company for the hull. 1t is to be 2i5
feet long, 81 feet beam, 81 feet floor, I z feet
hold, and ~ feet shear. Engines 2iinches
diameter . feet stroke. Five steel boilers
Al inches in diameter, % feet long, tiues
each-donkey boiler. Will have full length
cabin and texas, cotton guards and electric
lights. The new boat is to be named after
the accomplished wife of the owner-hate
Adams. This will make the fourth boat
built by Rces & Son for Major Adams, and
it is confidently expected that she will ex-
Gel all former packets in her trade both as
TO speed and capacity. The approximate
cost OF this boat, complete, is S75,0 900, to be
ready for business November |, 1882.
At half.past eight o'clock last night says
the Pittsburgh Post the steamer Coal City
was making up her fleet of coal bargeS in
anticipation of coal boat rise. She was
near the Smithiield street bridge with
tow when the bargCs broke loose. The
towbOat. with q view TO saving her tow,
pushed il into some bargcS at Robinson's
landing. In few minutes the river be-
tween the Smithtield street and Point
bridges presented an exciting appearance.
Barge after barge broke loose from their
moorings below the bridge and began to
float down stream. They swept all before
them and crushed into each other
with a noise that could be- heard for a long
distance. one barge was crushed to pieces
in mid river ard sank. and Hat was sunk
Just below it. The barges ran into the
Venture in the Ohio and one barge was cut
down and filled. but afterward was pump
ed out. They also ran into Hays land
ing, but did not do much damage there.
The Chic was soon filled with tow boats
busily engaged in catching the runaway
DargeS. some oil them were run IN OH the
bar at Pork House Landing. The Jim
Brown, /. n Phillips, Excel, Annie h.,
Foster, Coal City and Nellie Walton all
helped to gather up the barges, and all were
saved except those which were sunk. There
were nineteen barges and flats loose. Thir-
teen barges and two fats belonged to Jos.
Walton & Co., two to the Marnett's tow and
two TO the Sharp McDonalds two. The
boats which were lost belonged to Walton
and had twenty thousand bushels of coal
in them. There were about twenty-six
thousand bushels in the loose barges. The
river was rising at the rate of five inches
an hour at the time Of the accident The
sunken barges will be quite serious OBJ
stacle TO the navigation of the river there.
MEMPHIS, April 3O.-River rising. De.
parted. City of Cairo, for Vicksburg at 10
\. ".
PITTsBuRrm, April 30.-River feet :
inches and falling. Weather pleasant.
STEUBENvLLE, April 3O.-River feet
inches and stationary. Weather pleasant.
CINCINNATI, April 30.-River 81 feet 6
inches and rising Weather clear and
cool. Passed down. ampbell from Pitts
burg for Louisville.
LOUISVILLE, April 3O.-Riyer Q feet of
water in the canal and feet in the chute
on the falls and rising. Business lively
among boats.