Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-01-03
AT PIrrsBURG.
The Rivers Rising Slowly at $3.50 O'Clock
LAst Night.

Herls-s AfaFafAf- ~ tfer Afstetffs
PrTTsBURG, January>2. The fears Of
an exceptionally high stage Of water in
the rivers here have subsided on account
OF the freezing weather which set in
this morning. Since noon the ther-
mOmeter has fallen rapidly and tonight
the streets are frozen quite dry and it
Is still growing colder. The rivers
have been rising rapidly all day, but less
rapidly since late in the afternoon. The
gauge in the Allegheny showed Il feet
at 1880 i. IN. aud rising at the rate OF
about ten inches an hour. At 10 o'clock
tonight the gauge showed twenty-five
feet four inches and still rising at the
rate Of about three inches an hour. The
MonOngahela Valley had much more
rain yesterday than fell in the Allegheny
Valley and the river OF that name
is slightly higher in consequence. At
II a. m. to-day the gauge Indicated
eighteen feet and rising. AT $3.50 o'clock
tonight the gauge showed twenty-five
feet four inches and rising slowly.
The rivermen nave been very bnsy
during the last fOrty-eight hours max
ing an craft aud lumber piled on the
levees secure ia anticipating Hood APP
proaching the high water Of February,
1854, aud all craft is now securely sit
uated. Rivermen predict twenty-iour
10 twenty-SiX feet stage of water. Some
old watermen say the freezing weather,
which has set in since morning, will
stop the thawing of the snow, bind up
the rivuletS and smaller mountain
streams aud prevent as high stage OF
water as was al first expected. There
Was scotch mist" falling here nearly
AN dav. but it turned into fine snow to-
ward nightIall
The signal service officer forecasts
the coming OF blizzard from the west,
which will chase the mercury down 70
degrees before noon tomorrow. He re-
norts "a falling of the mercury at the
bead,yaters of both rivers also.
| Special kilograms from adjacent
COMMITTEES tell OF full streams but no eN-
|reDtinnally high water and little damage
I IN nropertv. The Beaver river, Rae
coon creek. and other streams debOUch-
ing into the Ohio south of here are re-
ported as running bank full, but nOrain
OF any account fell to-day.
The Associated Press furnished the
following last night:
PlrrsRURG, PA, January AT l0l
o'clock tonight the river showed %
feet and rising at the rate Of , inches
per hour. IL is said here by river
men that the prevailing cold snap has
caught the flood in time to prevent
serious damage. The Pittsburg and
Western tracks ON the Allegheny side
are Hooded aud bOatmen are making all
taut for the night. Several Ice gOrgeS
have passed out quietly and all seems
serene above. though reports from below
are not 50 cheerful. Great damage has
been done in the coke regions aud
several persons had narrow escapes
from drowning while fording Jacobs
creek. near ScOttdale. EyerSOn is par
TALLY submerged and the B. II o. branch
there is badly crippled. The lower por-
tion of Mansfield is flooded. He'll,
town TWO miles south Of that place, is
in bad shape. Property is being car
ried away and constant procession OF
hay ricks, sheds, etc, float by. Smaller
towns and roads seem TO be suffering
the greatest. while no danger IS now
feared from the big rivers.