Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-27
ICE BOUND RIVERS.
Both the Local Streams Are Threat
ening to Freeze Up.
THE OHIO is COVERED WITH ICE,
Eut the Cold Weather Adds to the Gen
eral Merry Making.
JOY AND GLADNEsS ALL OVER TIE CITY

Last night Pittsburg was practically ice
bound. Both the Allegheny and Mouonga-
hela rivers were threatening to close them
and the river steamers kept shifting about
on both streams just to keep the waters
moving out of the clutches of the impend-
ing frost. The waters in the Ohio river,
too, are manifesting a disposition to stop
running all the way from Pittsburg to Gin
cinnati, and at many points between here
and there the stream is already frozen over
At Bellaire the Ohio is frozen over for
the first time since 1885 A telegram from
Steubenville reports that the cold snap of
the last several days has frozen the river at
points above and below that city. Several
boats are reported to be in bad condition,
but the Coal City is probably in the worst
fix. She is lying on a bar at Browns
Island, where the Jos. Nixon and the Ray
mond Homer are frozen in also. It is re-
ported that both log chains of the Coal
City are broken and that two six-ineh
syphons are going in order to keep the
water out.
Danger From an Ice Gorge.
Should the ice gorge break the boats,
it is feared, will be in bad shape and pos
sibly ruined. As it is the Coal City is
likely to be a total loss. The Keystone
State, the Bennett and the barges of the
Raymond are tied up and hemmed in BY
ice The river, it was thought, would close
in last night. At many other points below
an alarm is being sounded against the ice
and the river people generally are thor
oughly alarmed at the possibility and pros
pect of their craft being damaged and pos
sibly destroyed.
The genuine cold weather, however, did
not interfere with the merry-making in and
about Pittsburg. The merry sleigh bells
and the bells of Christmastide rang out,
wild and joyfully, through every part of
the two cities, and their delightful melodies
combined and went up like jingling, gener-
Gus thanks to the weather king. Even the
business thoroughfares were crowded with
sleighs, both great and small, and the East
End highways, broad and smooth as waxed
floor, were given up entirely to fashionable
cutters and thoroughbreds. The trotters
and PAGERS, which since the racing season
closed have reveled in their heavy wooden
blankets and their padded stalls were out
showing to the world in general and their
owners in particular that they were still
able to fix pace fast enough to endanger
previous records or break pool box.
Fast Horses and Polished Skates.
Pretty girls and their gallants, each in
their furs and mufflers, were all the day
dashing through the East End, and each
driver seemed bent on outstripping the
other with speed and hurry. Many owners
of fast horses were out during the att
ernoon and evening, and among those pass
ing the haywood stables, which were the
headquarters of the drivers, were Dave
Shaw, George A. Kim, James D. Gallery,
Billie McCab, Colonel Rutledge, W. E.
Howley, Tom Donahoe, Judge Hyndman,
George Wamhoff, W. l. Kuhn, joe Phil
lips, Mort Van Voorhees,, George f. Nc
Clune, Charles Donnelly, Bill Getty, Will
lam McCallin, Charles Gallery, Werner
Bird, John G. Bennett, William Evans,
Joe Glesenkamp, j. S. Strickler, Jack
Howley, John McNulty, Jim Long, Denis
Shannahen, J. A. McKelvey, Mike McCor-
mick, James Lappsn, Ed. Hays, c.. B.
Harmon, F. L. Dunn, William Glue, NJ.
+. Maloney, Negley Seeley, James Dahlam,
Philip Finn, Charles Schwan, Gregory
Meyer, Jr.
In the Allegheny and Schenley parks
thousands upon thousands of men, women
and children spent most of the day gliding
swift and gleefully over the frozen ponds,
and last night several thousand people
skated until they we're about worn out over
the ice at Silver Lake Grove. At no time,
day or night, was the weather too cold for
those out for the pleasure that seemed to
flow in unbounded rounds to all those who
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