The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-07-14
TILE RIVER FAILING.
The Coal Fleet Passing All Day-Noto'
About the Steamers.

The Coal Fleet Passing All Day-Notes
About the Steamers.
The river fell very rapidlyatthis point
yesterday, and those in charge of craft
tied up along the banks were kept busy
letting out lines in order to avoid being
caught on the banks. At dusk last night
the levee marks Indicated depth in the
channel of but l6 feet, showing fall Of
over ten feet in twenty-four hours. The
rain OF Thursday night, while it was
very heavy here, was not heavy or
general enough to check the fall in the
river to any appreciable extent. The
scenes on the river as viewed from the
leyec were full OF life and interest from
early morning till dusk. The steamers
passed in the following order: Joe
Walton, Fred Wilson, Belle McGowan,
Tide, Geo. Wood, Geo. w. Stone, Clifton,
Bennett, Tom Dodsworth, Little Bill,
Annie Roberts, Ed. Roberts, Tom Lysle,
Twilight, Alice Brown, Onward, Hornet
No. 2, Diamond, Coal Valley, Advance,
Lud Keefer, j. s. Mercer, j. A. Black
more, John Moran, James Gilmore, Geo.
Shiras, Joe Nixon, Dick Fulton, II. i.
Pierepont, Coal City and \. S. Neel.
Nearly every one OF these steamers had
big tows and the pilots had to be on the
jump aud do some lively turning OF their
wheels us they passed here. The chan
mel is so crooked here that when the
river is high there are several bad cur
rents that neCessitate stopping and back
ing and fast work at the wheel to keep
the tows straight, and all this adds to
the interest OF the scene, There will
be more coal pass to'day.
BANK BRIEFS.
The Elaine got away for Parkersbnrg
on time yesterday morning The Courier
is this mornings packet in this trade.
Charlie Reeves, the popular clerk on
the Sherley, came up from below by rail
ahead OF his steamer yesterday, and
spent the afternoon looking after the
Sherley's patrons and shaking hands
with friends,
The Scotia is due down Mt an early
hour this morning on her way from
Pittsburgh to Cincinnati. This will be
the ulst uPPSUtAllSS Va Wv @SN'"A "
several weeks.
The repairs to the G. W. Bachelor
have been completed and last night she
was dropped down from North Wheel
ing, where she has been lying, to the
leVee. She will resume her place in the
Pittsburgh trade this morning.
The Louis A. Sherley will leave hesc
at 3 o'clock this afternoon for Cincin-
natl, from which point she arrived last
evening with good trip on board. The
Sherley is in every respect a tirst-classs
steamer, and her officers are clever and
obliging. Passengers will find the ae'
commodations on the Sherlcy equal to
those OF any steamer on the Ohio.
A dark object apparently entaugled in
the branches OF n tree was noticed float
ing amid the drift Wednesday evening
by gentleman on the river bank. Call
ing the attention Of his companions to it,
they observed it with careful scrutiny,
until they were convinced that it was
the body OF man. They procured n
skiif to go to it, but the Bellaire passing
then, the hoatar was washed away by
the waves and could not be seen after
ward. 1t is perhaps the body Of an un.
fortunate fallen from one OF the coal
ets.-BHlqirG Tribune.