Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-02-11
IN TWO WEEKS WILL Be UPON US To-
DAY.
A Rise of Sixteen Inches Here Yesterday, Fol-
lowed by a Small Drop - Twenty-Five
Feet Expected at Pittsburg-The Upper
Rivers Rose Rapidly Yesler-
day and Last Night
THE RECORD.

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The fourth freshet in two weeks Will
be upon US this evening.
just what the stage of water will be,
is as yet little uncertain, but a sum
mary of the best judgments last night
put the greatest height at thirty-seven
feet, or about three feet more than on
Tuesday, when "a feet 3 inches was
scored. At that time there was 23 feet
s inches at Pittsburg, and. from one to
two feet more than that was looked for
up there last night.
With twenty-nine feet here TO start
on. there will be little trouble in run
ming the water up eight feet further,
if the weather does not grow
suddenly colder to-day. The food Will
find Wheeling people well prepared for
II. however, as everybody was about
early in the day, and business men In
the wholesale districts issued orders 10
their men TO look sharply after goods
stored in cellars. Island and South
Side folks took precautions as TO pianos
and other perishables, and citizens gem
orally kept an eye on the river news as
they went about their usual avocatlons.
WheeIingites living on the low ground
had inst about caught their breath al
ter the flood scare of early in the week
when thier morning REGISTER brought
them the un welcome news that they
were in for it again, and IL was still
quite early in the morning when the
agitation of newspaper and telegraph
Office telephones began. By noon the
news received from points above, much
of II of an unnecessarily alarming char
acter. had been bplletimed at various
noints about town, and from that hour
until long after dark the kilograms thus
displayed were frequently and eagerly
read. The first reports, as usual,
were the worst. They stated that
not less than tweDty-eight feet
would be reached at Pittsburg, and
many predictions OF forty feet here
were based upon this view. Later In
the afternoon this PittSburg estimate
was materially modified, and by six
O'Clock it was announced that twenty
five feet was the outside limit anticl-
pated at the Smoky City, and that 1t
might not 90 over twenty-three feet.
As usual, the kilograms purporting 20
give the stage OF water at PlttSourg
we're not consistent. As al instance OF
this, Press report at p. m. said
there was then eighteen feet at Pitts
burg, and ''rising rapidly" While the Z
d. N. bulletin said there was then but
seventeen feet and rising four inches
per hour. ~
Here the river acted q little peculiar
". During the late morning and early
afternoon it rose rapidly, until at p.
m. there was % feet inches. Then
il was a stationary for a time and then
began to fall very slowly, dropping OH
an inch by half-pass four, another inch
bv seven, and still another by ten
O'Clock. The raise at noon was occS-
stoned by the stream being somewhat
backed up by water from the creeks in
this immediate vicinity.
Following are the bulletins sent out
from points above ~ 7 O'Clock last
night
EARLY EVENING BULLETINS.
PITTsBURG, PA, February 1O.-River
Il feet rising 4 inches per hour. The
Allegheny river is somewhat higher
than the MonongaheIa,
PARKER, February D--River 13 feet
6 inches, rising inches per hour.
OIL CITY, PA, February 10.-RiVer
9 feet , inches and rising, weather clear
and somewhat colder, but not enough
to check the rise.
MoRGANTowN, February 10.-Riyer
70 feet inches and rising.
Lock No. 4, February lO.-River Il
feet I inches, rising & inches ar hour
BROWNSVILLE, February 10.-River
16 feet inches, rising inches per
hour.
GREENSBORO. February 10-Rlver IA
feet inches and rising ; inches per
hour.
HALF-PAST TEN BULLETIN.
PIrrsRURG, February 1O---Mononga-
hela river 10 feet inches aud rising;
Allegheny % feet inbhes and rising.
PARKER, PA, February 1O.-River
10 feet inches and rising.
BRowNSvILLE, PA, February TO-
River l6 feet and rising.
Lock No. 4, PA, February 10.-River
II feet and rising six inches per hour.
WEST NEWTON, PA, February 10
River 10 feet and rising.
WARREN, PA, February 1O.-River
seven feet and rising; general rains and
gloomy prospects
AFTERNOON REPORT OF DAMAGE ABOVE.
PITTsBURG, PA, February 10.-High
water is playing havoc with the travel
on the railroads centreing here. The
Pan Handle has been compelled to use
the Fort Wayne tracks for TWO days,
and the Allegheny Valley was again
blockaded, but is running again this
afternoon. The TuSCarawas river IS
the stream that has proven the obstacle
TO travel on the Panhandle. Two piers
of the railroad bridge at New Corners
town were washed away last night, and
the bridge was lett cluging to the
one remaining sbutmeat. On the
main line Of the Fort Wayne
the tracks are badly knocked ont by the
high water The Erie and Youngstown
and Ashtabula is submerged by four
feet Of water at Warren, O., and at
Nashville, o., on the same road % inch
es Of water cover the tracks with the
river still rising. Swollen creeks neces-
STATED slow running on the part Of the
Pennsylvania railroad and all trains
were late to-day.
The river was Is feet at Pittsburg at
y o'clock and rising rapidly, but old
rivermen DO not look for as much water
os there was early in the week.
THE LATEST FROM PITTsBURG.
PIrTsBURG, PA, February l0.-The