Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-07-23
GREAT FLOODS.
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onto the Ohio side and then caught
some coai and tie boats and towed them
over to the West Virginia side
About $50 this morning seventy-six
lockages of logs belonging to Mon. Mil
Ter. which were tied UP in the Kanawha
about half mile above town, broke
loose and started out.
IN a SOLID BODY.
Three men ware on the RATS and did
all in their power to keep them intact
= 1t was a dangerous position. This big
string of logs came down on the swift
current and first struck Capt. Paden's
feet of barge,s jusr below Neal run
bridge. but they swung around out in
to the stream without injuring the
boats. They collided with the Market
street bridges piers and then with the
piers of the Juliana street bridge. Here
the raft broke loose from each othsr ana
a number of the RATS were broken up,
.he swift current throwing the loose logo
high UP against the south pier. 1t look
ed as if the men on the RATS were DOOM
ed as well as the dry docks and Barns
dali. which were tied up Immediately
below the bridge pier. The men heid on
pluckily, however, running on to the
RATS that were not broken up. Inc
barge lying outside the dry dock got
the full force of the loose logs. The
docks careened. and it looked as Il they
and the Barnsdall would topple over IN
the river. but fortunately the lines held
and the logs passed out into the Onlo.
Thu RATS and loose logs continued on
down the Ohio and the former were
caught by the H. K Bedford and land
ed below the Island. The loose logs
are still going.
The Parkersburg Mill Company re-
ceived word that the river was twelve
feet and rising at Burnsville and TWEEN
ty-three feet and rising at Grantsville.
The West Fork boom had not broken
loose. but had raised and had been re-
lieved Of
THE IMMENSE PRESSURE
of logs and ties behind ii which passed
underneath as they had done in the
Creston boom. 1t settled down and is
again filled. At ten o'clock 1900 logs
had passed Elizabeth and they wsre
passing at the rate Of 100 an hour
Capt. Paden's boom, near Cres,On,
which contains 10000 ties, was still in
tact at ten o'clock. Capt. Paden est
mated that one third of the logs and
ties swept out Of the booms will 90 out
into the Ohio, and the less will be
very heavy.
The Kanawha is rising very rapidly
at this point and there are grave fears
That if the rams continue that there
will be great destruction. The heavy
rain of last night covered very, large
range of territory The Ohio river bot
tom above Parkersburg looked like a
small river this morning. A deluge Of
water fell along the hills up Little Pond
run, and the bed of the stream not be-
ing large enough to contain the water
il spread over the bottom carrying
everything before it and doing vast
amount of damage The Little bridge
in the road at Bartlett's Pond was
washed out and a number Of saw logs
were deposited in the road there which
the water had brought down from some
place up the little run banks. All the
low Pond run bottoms were overlooked
for a short time.
Word was received here at one
O'clock from Leachtown that the logs
that escaped from above had begun
passing there at the rate of twenty-five
a minute. They began passing here at
$3.50 o'clock this morning. Mon. MI
ler's bad luck continued all day. Two
large RATS OF ties that were lying above
the Parkersburg Mill broke loose and
were swept out into the OhiO this after
non.
The whole country around Troy, Gil
mer county, was flooded and great dam
age had been done. The loss is the
heaviest ever known and tonight the
river is rising rapidly at this point and
the stream is running bank full of val
liable timber and small crafts.