The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-01-11
The OHIO RIVER.
Anxiety "a to What This Very
Uncertain Stream viii Do
ANOTHER RISE is COMING SURE,
But It's EItcnt Caunot Now DO Closely
Estimntod-Twenty.nvo Feet Ia Pro.
dlctcd at Pittsburgh, Which Means
About Thirty.nvo Foot at Wheeling.
Tho Rain Appears TO DO General
Above and Below Wheeling.

PirTsnuRou, Pa, Jan. l0.-Forecaater
Stewart tonight predicts another flood
shortly, which will reach tho height Of
Tuesdays rlso, or at least % feet.
Tho weather bureau reports from Mo.
nongahcln river points show that q.
Fairmont tho river has risen six feet
since morning, and Is still going up.
At lock No. 4, II icot is recorded ind
rising Mt tho ratio OF three inchcs au
hour. Reports along the Allegheny
river do not show any material riso rs
yet, bu. the observer says the warm
rain OF tho past twenty.tour hours.
which has boon general, is bound to
melt tho largo quantities Of snow that
withatood tho last thaw and swell tho
Allegheny to flood height.
The river continued TO fall steadily
most OF the day. yesterday. but the &C.
compartment OF steady rain that had
sot in Wednesday night at 10 o'clock
was tho cause OF general feoling OF un-
easincss all over tho city. Tho similar
ity oil the conditions then rs compared
to those Just preceding tho great food
OF 1854 was striking and excited general
comment. Then as now the flood was
preceded by big river which COM
menced to fall and got down 10 twenty
feet before tho second rise caused by
steady rains overtopped by far the first
flood. However, az yet, there is moth.
ing gu which to base the fears felt yes.
terday that the Ohio would 20 beyond
its recent maximum height. The gen.
eral rains were expected to cause the
river here to become stationary at an
early hour this morning aud It was
thought that it would commence to
climb up the marks again soon after.
The river fell rapidly during the
morning hours. but the rate became
considerably lower in the afternoon,
getting down to about three inches per
hour at o'clock. At s p. m. tho marks
showed q feet inches, and thres hours
later 81 feet 3 inches. fall OF but five
inches, less than two inches per hour.
Throughout the day the rain made
the prospects look gloomy. and the
whariboat telephone was kept ringing
almost constantly. Captain Crockard
assured all who inquired that so far n,
he could ascertain it was raining at
nearly all points, that the riror would
probably come to standstiil. that it
would again climb up the banks. but
that no alarm need be felt unless the
rain is constant for two, three or four
T. ra,ll
doubtedly be cause for alarm for those
who live or do business in the lower
portions of the city. The morning re-
ports from headwa.er points were Us
follows:
Parker-6 feet : inches, falling but
raining.
Greensboro-l2 feet inches, falling
and raining.
Oil City feet 10 incheu, falling
slowly and raining.
Pittsburgh-l4 feet incheI. falling
and raining.
Morgantown-1l feet, falling and rain.
ing.
Brownsville-1S fee. II inches. failing
and cloudy.
Rice's Landing-l2 feet S inches, fall.
ing and cloudy.
During the morning street car lines.
railroads and other lines OF business that
had been Affected by the high water. re-
sumed. and the merchants who had re-
moved stocks from cellars put them
back again.
At IA. m. the marks showed % feet
10 inches. fall OF FIVE inches since IL
p. m.. or less than two inches an hour.
The stream was expected to become
stationary early to-day.