The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-05-22

The floods experienced ut eadwaters,
especially at points on the Allegheny,
felt more severely at OIL City, Pc, and
OIcnn, N. Y, described in yesterdays
lSrELLlGEScEH, created quito q flood
scare IN this city yesterday. So for as
could DO determined last evening, how.
over, there Is no foundation for such
excitement. II there Is no moro ruin
ut hcadwaters at oncc tho river ut this
point ehould not got beyond tho thirty.
loot mark Tho stage OF water hero will
not hur, anybody's property, except in
tho lowes bottoms.
All day yesterday tho river climbed
steadily up tho marks ut the public
landing. and hundreds Of people were
there during the afternoon anxiously
watching the marks. The rate OF rise
was uniform almost during tho dry
about six inches an hour.
The morning reports received ut tho
whariboat wero somewhat encouraging,
the rise oil tho Monopgahela having
ceased. md that on the Allegheny near.
~ so. The reports were as follows:
Oil City-l5 feet inchos, cloudy and
stationary; Brownsville, II icct Sinches,
raining and river falling; Lock No.
(Monongahela), l3 feet / inches, falling;
Greensboro. IL fcot 4 inches, falling;
Parker, IS feet G inches. stationary;
Pittsburgh, 10 feet Q inches, rising.
Tho Water street people up 10 p.
m. bad made no move TO 10. their cell
lars and easements in shape lor moro
water than thirty feet. 1t will take SO
icet + inches TO do any damage on that
street, and that much water is not ex-
pectod by the conservative river men.
Wharfmaster Crockard was besieged
personally and by telephone through
out tho day, and his invnrlable predic-
ton was that there will be no more
than thirty tcet at this point, unless
there is more heavy rain. Ono good
feature IL that the lower river is com-
paratively low just now and can accom-
inodate all the water that the upper
river sends out Ii the lower tributa-
rles OF the Ohio wcreseuding out strong,
fears OF extreme high water might be
entertained.
The river continued to rise steadily
last evening at about four inches per
hour, and it was noticeable that more
drlftwood than usual is running out.
At 10 o'clock the marks showed % feet
scant in the channel At tho rate the
river waa then rising tho expected thir-
ty.foot stage will not be reached until
this evening at o'clock.
The headwatcr reports received here
last night show the Monongahela rising
at the nearest point to hcadwa,ers re-
ported from, Morgantown. The ALE
ghenv at Warren is rising, nut at
Greensboro fall is reported: The re-
ports were as follows:
Morgantown-Rver 10 feet and ris-
ing; weather cool and cloudy.
Warren-River Is feet 1 inches and
rising; weather cool and cloudy.
Greensboro-River a feet and fall
ing; weather cold aud raining.
icubenville-River "a feet 6 inches
and rising RAPIDLY: weather cool with
steady rain falling.
Oil Clty-River Il feet 0 inches and
falling; weather cloudy and cool.
The following Associated Press dis
patch was received at n. IL:
PITTsnunGH, May 2l.-River % fee,
ami rising n. 1915. Twenty-Five feet
expected. Reports from above Indicate
that there will be foot or two more
before the rise runs out. |. looked 10.
day as il the rain storm was about over,
but tho heavy rain OF tonight will
swell the river more.