The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-03-23
YESTERDAYS MARKS.
THIS MORNINGS MARKS.
TuIRTY. EIGHT FEEr.

Y At 1880 o'clock this morning the In
,tclllgencer talked with the river editor
OF the Pittsburgh Post over; the long
distance telephone. At that hour the
marks a, the Pittsburgh public land
Ing showed % feet 6 inches and rising
four inches IN hour. 1t was estlma-
ted the stage would reach &c feet this
morning. This stage. It was said, would
cause considerable damage in the
nelghborhood OF Pittsburgh,
When the above information was sub
mItted to a river man early this morn
Ing, he stated IS feet at Pittsburgh
would mean about ss feet at Wheeling.
A more conservative estimate OF the
stage that would be reached here Is IS
feet. From Information obta!nable at 8
o'clock this morning. the 1ntelligencer
estimates the amount OF water that can
be expected here this evening at from
I 30 to IS feet, more probably the former
is unless there is more
and heavy rain. in which event a high
er stage will be reached.
At / O'clock this morning the follow
ing Associated Press dispatch was re-
ceived:s x. s
PITTSBURGH, Pa, March 22.-At
midnight reports from up-rlver points
show that the'rlvers have reached their
height and are slowly receding. The
danger line. % feet. has been reached
here. with the water still rising slowly.
+ 1t Is believed by well posted rivermen
that 90 feet will be the maximum stage
at this point. which Is expected early in
the morning and the fear OF extensive
damage has passed, although a very
heavy rain, lasting several hours. fell
tonight and at midnight has again
started and is coming down in torrents.
Interest in the rWerwas continued and
even increased yesterday. The predic-
ton made by the Intellisencer that there
would be stage Of from twenty-elght 10
thirty feet was realized in the afternoon
the marks at q p. m. showing twenty,
seven feet eight inches and. sill rising.
AS; to what will be added to this stage
before the rise comes 10 an end It was.
difficult to state last evening, but from
the information that could be obtained,
without additional general rain in the
upper country, it was not believed the
top-notch would mark more than
thirly-five feet. This Is the danger
line for people living In the low territory
on the South Side. and that stage
will enter the Easements Of aanumber of
houses on the Island. sts55
The morning reports from lieadwater
points, received at The wharfboat, were
as follows: Z t5 - Z
PITTsBURGH-RivHr 10 feet inches
and rising. raining.
A OIL CITI-River,6 feet G inches, fall
ing, rain.
PARKER-RiveriS feet S inches. fall
ing, raining hard since IL y. IN. Mon
day.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES G feet c In
chcs. falling. ralh. E
GREENSBoRo--Tliver 10 feet 6 in
ches. falling. rain.
BROWNSVILLE--Ri 81 feet, sta
tlonary. raining hard since 2 a. m.
WHEEL1NG--Riyer % feet inches,
rising, rain. r.
The bad feature OF the mlrring tele-
grams from above was the hard rain re-
ported from Parker, on the Allegheny
river. AS will be seen. rain is reported
from every point on both the Allegheny
and MononSahclas rivers: that figure in
the report. However, as both rivers
were. reported falling. 1t will take a
heavy fall of rain TO: check them and
create secondary rises.
The night reports and the Increased
rate Of the rivers rise at this port were
not reassuring. During the early utter
noon the rate had, decreased to two
inches per hour, hut,at G p. m, 1t adj
vanccd to four inches, and later in the
night was five and six inches per hour.
The stage reached at midnight was 30;
feet 10 inches and still rising. This is
ten inches more than the maximum
stage that was expected yesterday. and
the end Is notIyet, hut the public should
not become frightened, for as yet there
is no assurance that tho river VIII be-
come more than, bank-fnll.
On some rises there Is more than six
feet difference between the top-notch
at Pittsburgh and that at Wheeling,
but the mark at Pittsburgh ut . u. m,
yesterday was 20.2 feet, while there
was 90 feet inches here, difference
OF more than nine feet. This increased
difference Is caused by the putting out
Of the streams between Wheeling and
Pittsburgh. particularly the z Beaver
river which was reported a torrent yes
terday afternoon. 5fy Ef
The following Associated Press tclc-
gam was received blythe IRtcIllSencer
lfrcm Pittsburgh last evening:
+ PITTSBURGH, March 22.-As a re-
suit of tho heavy, rains In this section
during the past forty-eight hours, the
rivers are rising rapidly and a flood that
will tinundatc the lowlands Is predicted
before tomorrow morning. NnvIga-
ton along the Monongaheln river has
been suspended and the water Is over
the locks. The Beaver river Is a rag
Ing torrent and factories on. its banks
have. closed down. At noon the murks
Indicated q feet and rising three inches
an hour. The Alleghenyian Ohio riv-
crs are also rising, and from 20 to Go feet
OF water is expected here tonight.
u Shortly before midnight a heavy rain
began falling, and the Water and Main
street business men who were staying
up late and closely watching the rivers
rise began to believe that they were In
for. n flood experience. At midnight
tho Windsor hotel people were jprepar-
Ing 10 beg!nl the work OF moving every
thing portable out OF their basement.
a stage OF 33sfcct INCHES enters tho
basement Of the Windsor The Howell
cellar takes water ut q feet and Pro-
prietor Howell moved out ycsterday,nf-5
ternoon. AT the Stamm. 1T takes 35{
feet to do any damagc. Practically all
tllc aMntec " RtrenL. basement 81 sipi I'M liz.