The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1885-01-07
RIVER NEWS.
Stage Of the wnterand oIoyements Of the

Stage Of the lyateran nIoYements of the
Steamboats,.
AS predicted yesterday, the recent spell
Of warm weather and the rain falls have
had their effect. and the river is beginning
to rise Mt this point. Last night there was
a depth Of feet in the channel. Yester-
days heavy showers will result in putting
the river up to ahigh stage. The storm
was pretty general and the headwaters
are reported as rising. Last nights dis
patches were as follows: Pittsburgh, G
feet8 inches; Greensboro, Is feet; Par
ker's, A feet inches; Rice's Landing, 5
feet 10 inches; Oil City, 4 feet 10 inches;
Lock No. 4, feet 8 inches; Brownsville,
4 feet 8 inches. Business on thcieyee was
dull afternoon. Before that time 1t was
livelier than 1t has been for. several days.
The Bachelor left for Pittsburgh at
noon.
The Katie stockdale passed down for
Cincinnati at 10A.M.
The Courier arrived from below at 10
o'clock last nightwith good sized trip.
The st. Lawrence will probably leave
Pittsburgh this evening in the Graham's
place.
The. Nellie Walton passed down with
coal and the Coal City and Jim Brown
passed up with empties.
The Jacob Heasherington reached Par.
kersburg Monday morning after a flying
trip from Pittsburgh through the ice.
Her wheel was almost a total wreck, but
otherwise she was not damaged to any.
extent.
The recent ice gorge in the Muskingun
was so heavy that the railroad bridge was
lifted up in the center and made unsafe for
trains. 1t would haye gone down had not
the Anna L. gone to wcSk and cut It out.
A strong iron bridge is to replace the pres
sent wooden structure.
The towboat Sam Brown, light, going
down, met the Ironsides on her way up
with q tow at Grave creek rifle yesterday
morning, and gave her fuel barge. The
signals interchanged led Moundsviile PEG.
pie to think that collision was immi-
nent. The Ironsides had two barges OF
iron ore in tow.
The steamer Alice went by Marietta on
Saturday night. She whistIed and hailed
the crowd on shore to let them know OF
her distress. One Of her engines was bro
ken and the other could not unassisted
back her. Captain Steve Davis teIe.
phoned to Parkershurg for the river men
there to run up and catch her before she
might strike thepiers ofthe bridge.
The Andes, as intimated in this col.
umn yesterday, has been detained by ice
at points below. She will be up at the
levee, however; by this evening, and, as
advertised in this mornings issue, will
leave for Cincinnati on her return trip to-
morrow afternoon at 8 o'clock. The at
tention Of shippers and the travelling pub
lie is especially called to this notice. The
Andes Is splendid stern wheel packet, of.
ficered by as clever set OF gentlemen as
can be found on the upper Ohio.
The Parkersbhrg Journal has tho fol-
lowing about the wrecked steamer Tele-
phone, "Capt. w. A. Rinnaird, OF the
lost steamer Telephone, was registered at
the Windsor yesterday. Capt. Kinnairl
denies that the Telephone struck one OF
the barges sunk by the towboat Veteran,
but says that the Telephone was backing
out from the Little Hooking at the same
time as the steamer Hibernia. AS the
boats came out the Telephone struck
something which Jared the boat consld-
erably, and he supposed the boat had col.
llided with the Hibernia. AS the shock
was considerable he sent q man into the |
hold TO see II she had sprung leak. The
man went into the forward hold and came
back in a short while and reported no
water to be found. Shortly aiterward the
Captain went up into the Texas for the
purpose Of sleeping CHANGING 70 look !