Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-01-07
A FLOOD IMMINENT,
As A RESULT OF THE STEADY RAIN OF TIE
PAST TWO DAYS.
All the Streams About the HeadwaisrS Of the Ohio
Were Swelling Rapidly Last Nigh'-Ihs leo
Ran Out Here Last Evening, With
out Any Resulting Loss.

That we will have a high stage Of
water in the Ohio at this point by to-
morrow evening, is foregone conclu.
sion.
Just what the stage of water will be
is impossible to predict at this writing,
as the rain was still falling at all up
stream points at late hour last night,
but over twenty feet is predicted at
PittSburg, which makes it pretty safe
TO assume there will be more than
thirty feet here, with contingent pos
sibility that there will be a good deal
more.
Up to midnight last night fully an
inch and half Of water had fallen,
aud as the snow was practically all
melted by the steady down-pour, the
resulting aggregate moisture would
likely be about equal TO two inches and
a half Of rain 10 ordinary times. AS
this rain and accompanying warm
weather has been very general through
out the region drained by the head
waters OF the Beaver, Allegheny, Mon
ongahela, Youghiogheny, Cheat and
Tygart Valley river and the smaller
tributaries of those streams, we can
scarcely escape river which will be at
least bank full. That the treshet will
rise to the dignity OF a disastrous or
even an unusual flood" is scarcely TO
be expected. but there will, 10 all prob
ability, be quite enough water TO satisfy
every body. with little 10 spare.
The heavy rain chronicled in the
Sunday Register as falling between ,
aud O'Clock yesterday morning, de-
generated into driZzle towards day
light, and during the morning there
were but moderate showers, and In the
early afternoon the rain entirely ceased
for some time. This didn't afford much
relief 10 those fearful of an abnormally
high water, however, as the mercury
was up in the neighborhood OF 80, and
the snow continued to melt very rap
idly. Later in the afternoon the rain
recommended, and from half-past on
until late in the night the rain was To-
cessant. At times the downpour was
very hard, and the Undiscovered brick
streets and the choked-up sewers were
cleaned off and out in a very gratifying
manner, while not a vestge OF snow or
ice remained upon the sidewalks.
The ice in the river and creek held
fast throughout the day, the first
movement in the creek being made at
Fulton, few minutes after five o'clock,
when the ics broke under the influence
of the rapidly rising stream, but
gorged again in a few minutes. In a
half hour or so it again broke, and the
rush carried ths ice between Fulton
and the mouth Of the creek out into the
river, il being piled up in a heavy mass
against the river ice down about the
foot of Twenty-fourth street. Between
six and seven o'clock this ice showed
signs of giving way under the extra
strain thus suddenly put upon it, and
about seven O'Clock 1t let go, the very
swift current thus Occasioned in the
river carrying out the ice in front of the
wharf I'D about as far as the suspension
bridge. The river fell from nine feet
two inch stage TO about seven feet and
a half In about twenty minutes, leaving
the wharfboat high and dry on the COB
bic stones of the wharf, but doing no
damage either there or elsewhere, SO
far as could be learn ed, The fog along
the river was so dense early in the
evening that little could be seen OF the