Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-01-09
THE RIVER.
TW BNTY-BIGHT PBET FIVE INCHES At MID
NIGHT, LAST NIGHT
And Rising at the Rate Of About Six Inches al
Hour-A Total Of Thirty-hye or Thirty-siE
Feet Looked ibr

inches Of water in the chann,l, with the
stream rising at tue rate Of five or six
inches all hour. With this basis to figure
OH, and taking into due consideration the
reports from above, il will be safe to say
that we will have something over thirty
five feet of water by TO night, unless the
cold weather which is said 10 be approach
lug, but which seems to be good piece of
still, should have it's effect with consider
able promptness There was a good deal
of small drift on the water yesterday, with
here aud there a cake Of ice, hut neither
was sufficient 10 interfere with navigation
in the slightest degree, aud boatmen hurried
their craft about in the livelest man
ner. The Iron Age and john Penny passed
down at three and four o'clock respectively
with tows. while the Bernard and Belle
Prince went up The Shcrley got a"ay
for Cincinnati aud the Ben Hur for Pitts
! buTgh during the day. The Andes Will
| be up this morning, and Will leave 10
morrow at her usual tune. He onwuhteu
sight of river bank full attracted Il good
deal OF attention, and there were numerous
visits to the landing, bridge, aud other
points of vantage during the day Last
piuht there was some littlc anxiety from
residents of low lying sections oil the Island
and the South Side, but little inquiry
served TO allay their fears. There Is at
nresent no indications that any damage
will result from the water.
The daY was very active one at Pitts
burg. The coal men got a large amount OF
| the product of the mines ready for ship.
ment aud a number of boats begun the
down trip, although the water is too high
for perfect safety. The opening at the
| Davis Island dam has been widentd 10
three hundred feet and the largest tOws
can 90 through with ease. The great vol
ume Of water seems to be coming from the
| Monungahela, although the Allegheny is
also very high, and still rising. The noun
! tain region in which the tributaries OF this
! last named stream rise were covered with a
| good deal of snow before the rain SGT
| in, aud this has melted and serves to swell
| the volume OF water poured into the Ohio.
Following is the official list of coal tOws
which we're either started from PittSburg
last evening, or which will begiu the trip
] to-day, tie condition of the river permit
! ting:
| The Grand Lake Coal Company will
send the Joe Williams with - coal boats;
| Sam Miller, ; coal boats; j. 5. Mercer, q
coal boats and > barges, and the James A.
Blackmore with coal boats aud , barges
/ Dlu h,vbalg in, III. H.
! John A. Wood IL Sons sent the Jim
| Wood with 10 coal boats and the b ID
! Wood with & coal boats and harges, yes
! terday; the George Woods with , coal
| boats and : barges, and the Nellie Sperr,
coming back from Point Pleasant, will
leave for Cincinnati with coal boats
about $40, 600 bushels altogether.
! For J. 5 Neal the Cook came back for
! five coal boats, the Some fOr two boats,
and the J 5 Ncel for nine baTges All
three boats will leave for Cincinnati, with
| 40, 900 bushels in tow.
The Goa! Valley Coal Company will
send the Joe Stone with eight boats aud
| three Il lts. and the George Stone with four
! boats aud two barge5-abOut 200 900 bush
els
Walton X Co The 60sl City at Safe
| Harbor with 10 baTges, received from the
Joe Nixon, yesterday, = barges and fuel
barge The tow Of this boat, as it now
stands, is Is barges and fuel barge, bound
/ for Louisville. The boat has probably dc.
parted by this time, if the river permitted.
| The BOaz will leave with light coal boats
and , fuel barges, Nellie Walton with =
coal boats and 10 barges Joe Nixon with
II barges and fuel barge, Lud Keefer
with II barges and fuel barge, aud the
| l. n. BuntOr with l. barges. In addi-
ton, the BOaz carries coal boats and 1
barpes for Fawcett Il Son. In bushels
Walton & Co. will send over 1000 OO.
The PENNSYLVANIA Coal Company
Frank Gilmore has been sent for, and
when it arrives will take out barges aud
4 coal boats, abont $50, 600 bushels. This
J firm was unable to bring up its empties,
and has 10 more coal ready 10 go ot,t.
Captain Rodgers will start the Little
| Bill with 100000 bushels aud the Tide
with 100 600.
For Charles lutte & Co, the Rescue
will tow coal boats, Twilight L coal
| boats, Diamond 10 coal boats and the Bon
ncr 4 coal boats, about 700, 600 bushels.
T. NJ. Jenkins x Co. have ready 80,
| OVO Bushels. The Frank Gilmore will
take - barges
| w. II. Brown Sons ordered back come
of their tow boats that started during the
early part of the week. Their shipment
will be as follows: John BrOwn, II barges
VOyager,.. II barges; Sam Brown, 10 coal
boats; Percy Kelsy, If barge5; Alarm, II
barges. The John Penny started for Gin
ciuuati Saturday with model barges OF
steel rails aud barges Of coal. The Alice
and Harry Brown are on their way up.
| When they arrive they will take down "a
coal boats, - apiece The entire ship
ment will he l., 552, 600 bushels
Horuer Il Roberts have ready eleven
! coal boats, three barges aud five fuel flats,
to be toweG by .he Annie aud George Rob-
erts and the w. c. Homer, about 300, CSC
! bushels.
w. W. O'Neil * Co 5 shipment will be
Fred Wilson, with eight coal boats and
six barges; Belle Mcuowan, eight coal
boats; Dick Fulton, ten coal boats; Little
Fred, six coal boats and three bargcs; vii
! liam Kraft, ten barges, and the W. w.
| O'Neil, seventeen barges, i'll all about ] =
300 OOU bushels.
! J. C.. FISHER d Co. will send out the
Tom Dodsworth with twelve barges and
fuut n.el Lar1es and the Smoky City with
| fourteen barges and two fuel barges, 3bg,
! 600 bushels. The firm has remaining as
much more loaded coal, which will pro-
coed as soon Us motive power can be Sc
! cured
Thomas Eawcett :, Son will send with
the Boaz twelve coal boats and six barges
to Louisville, $50, 600 bushels. The Iron
! Age and the Resolute will start with ten
barges of rails. The Katie StoCkdale left
for Cincinnati last evening.
In short, the amount of coal loaded and
ready to proceed as soon as the coal men
feel inclined 70 venture is at least :, 100000
! bushels.
Yesterday at noon the upper wharf boat,
at Bellaire, which has been under water
since the hull was crushed by the ice several
days since, broke loose from Ike mOOrings
and tloated down stream. Several gentle
men in skitls attempted to land it but
could not find ropes long enough to aeach
the shore The boat swung round and
struck pier of the B. & o. bridge and
broke in two. At Heatherington's coal
works, about a mile below the bridge, q