The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-01-09
a GOOD DEAL or wApER.
Tho River stn Coming Up-Tho Nov,
ments Of the .Bonta.

GOOD DEAL OF WATER.
Tho River stu Coming Up-Tho Move.
mentS of the Boats.
The river has been rising steadily and
rapidly at this point since lsut Friday
evening. At midnight last night there
was q depth Of % feet inches in the
channel here and the waters were still
coming up on the gauge. There had been
q rise of nearly two feet In the previous
six hours and that with the river over the
20 foot marx here represent vast volume
Of WRter-R rainfall much heavier and
over greater area, probably, than people
generally have imagined.
The river rose so rapidly yesterday that
9 number living on the low ground on the
South Side and on some parts OF the Is.
land became little nervous concerning
the probable height Of theIrivsr and there
were number OF inquiries by telephone
at the newspaper and telegraph offices for
SnfoE2stien SegsrdlnR the adVices from
above and the possibility OF an overflow Of
the low and exposed points, A number
Of predictions were made last night as to
what the limit OF the rise would be, rang
ing all the way from 80 to So feet. It 10
not likely, however, that the 32.foot mRrk
will be passed; possibly the S0.foot stage
may not be touched and there Is little or
no probability that any one, except pos-
sibly few in the very low plscea, win be
in any way inconvenienced by this sud.
den and unexpected volume OF water.
As predicted, Saturday was a repetition
Of the day before; It rained hard goodly
portion OF the time and far into the night,
and it was rain that extended all up and
down the valley and along the head.
waters.
Yesterday 1t turned colder, but not
sufficiently so to check the rise to any
noticeable extent. The gorge at Oil City
broke Saturday morning and the Ala.
gheDy commenced to pur out in great
shape, but fortunately did no special
damage.
Lste last night there was depth in tho
Monongahela channel at Pittsburgh OF %
feet 9 inches and the wstera were about at
a Btandstill. The rivers were too turbu-
lent at that point yesterday to make 1t safe
for towboSts to venture out, but 1t is prob.
able that by to-morroy morning about
1000, 900 bushels Of coal will have been
started for tho lower parts and an end put
to anything like coal famine below.
Nearly all the Davis Island dam wickets
are nov down and the channel is over 800
feet wide. It Is pretty certain that they
will not bs raised again before next sum-
mer. The coal men are forced to admit
that Capt. Martin was not at fault for
tho trouble at the dam, II he had his own
way or ne!ed OH his own judgment, the
wickeis would have been lowered some
time ago. It Ia cafe to say that q similar
mishsp will not occur there again.
The reports from other points above
sent out ct six o'clock last evening were as
follows:
Morgantown, II feet aad rising slowly;
cloudy; thermometer 42.
Lock No. 4, l9 feet s inches and rising;
cloudy; thermometer 3S0.
Oil City, z feet inches and rising;
cloudy thermometer 250.
Brownsville, Is feet l inch and rising;
raining; thermometer 4Oo.
Parker, 0 feet; cloudy and colder.
A Pittsburgh dispatch received late lsst
night says: The Youghiogheny and other
headwateTs are now falling, and as the
weather is getting colder there ia no dan
ger OF food. The coal men are preparing
to make big ehipment OF black diamonds
to the lower ports. Abons eleven million
bushelsare loaded and probably tWo.thirds
OF that amount will bo shipped within the
next forty.eight hours. As scoa as
the empty craft return from Cincinnati
and Louisville there will be general re-
sumption OF work In tho river mines at
an advance in the wages Of the miners OF
one-tourkh cent per bushel. The re-
sumption will give employment to 5000
mine1s who have been idle for several
months.
NOTES FROM THR LRVRR.
The Belle MCGOWAN passed up Saturday
with empties, and yesterday the Belle
Prince and Barnard passed here on their
way up the stream.
The Ben Hur made through trip to
Pittsburgh Saturday, and parsed here yea
teTdsy on her trip down. She did good
business both ways.
Commodore Joseph Walton wSHreported
az Washington the other day pushing his
claim against tho National Government
for the loss Of the towboRt l. N. Bunton
come years ago.
Tho Alarm and Fiaher passed down
Saturday with email toTs Of coal, and yes.
terdsy afternoon the Iron Age and John
Penny, two Of the largest and most power.
ful boats Of the Pittsburgh feet, passed
down with big tows.
The Louis A. Shirley having been do.
tanned on her way up the river and being
further detained here by the heavy ship.
ments offered, did not get away for Gin
cinnsd till yesterday afternoon, nearly
twenty.four hours late. She was loaded
down deep.
The Andes is due to-day from Oincin.
natl, for which point abe will leave on her
return trip tomorrow afternoon at 3
O'Clock. This popular Htern-wheel packet
while laid mp this past season was thor
oughly oVerhsuled and repaired, and is
to-day the equal II not superior Of any
through packet floating on the Upper
Ohio. Captain Charlie Muhleman ia still
In command, is ably assisted by those
clever clerks, Mart Noll and Charlie Knox.
AwolI Known Man Dead.
Intelligence was received by Mr.. H. K.
List Saturday Of the death in New York
Of Mr.. Alexander w. Patterson, o well