Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-09-04
MARKS FROM BELOW.

PARkERSBU RG-Oh1o river 1eel o
inches and falling. Cloudy and hot
dali and Ben Hur. Down: The Avalon.
Due down: H; X. Bedford The Little
I MEMPHIS-River GO, falling. Clear and
hot.
LOUISVILLE-River falling; feet 4
in canal; S,5 below locks. Clear and hot.
ENANSV1LLE-Rive SIS, falling. Clear
and hot
CAIRO-River IS feet, falling. Fair and
POINT PLEASANT-River 49, falling.
Clear.
CINCINNATI-River 81, falling. Clear.
The marks on the wharf at mid
night showed feet inches and fall
ing.
The Will ]. Cummins came out OF
Pittsburg Friday evening with exceed
ingly heavy freight and passenger
lists. She left yesterday at L p. m.
with very little room for either freight
or passengers.
The keystone State had to turn back
from Morrel's yesterday on account OF
the low water. She will reshlp both
passengers and freight from here by
rail. and also take on passengers ana
freight for Cincinnati and way points.
She is to-morrow's packet for Clncln-
natl. leaving the wharf at a. m.
The Virginia will make this port
the end of her run and reship passen-
gers and freight by rail to points fur
Their up. She will lay up at Bells
Landing and await higher stage.
The Enterprise got up this far on
her wav to Pittsburg with a tow OF
empties.
A meeting of Harbor No. 20, Mas
tiers and Pilots, was held at 3 a. m. IN
Pittsburg, yesterday. Several lie"
members wero initiated and some new
ly elected officers were installed.
Major w. H. Bixby, United States
engineer in charge of the improve
ments of the Ohio river, has asked the
United States district attorney at On
cinnati to enter prosecutions against
certain Cincinnati firms who insist on
filing up the river banks. Z. Crane q
Co. seem to be the principal offenders.
The hull of the City Of Pittsburg Will
be launched at Marietta in ten days.
CAPT. Dana Scott, who gave out TINS IN
formation yesterday, said he expected
the boat when completed would draw
about 80 inches of water. He says hef
hull is a beauty and her lines the
most graceful he ever saw. She is AZ
feet s inches wide over all, and she
will be 50 feet wide over her wheel
houses. He says she will be ready
for business about the first of the
year. Her cabin will be finished much
after the style Of the packets built ~
years ago. Steamboatmen admit that
while changes have been made in the
cabins OF some steamers, yet the old
style bracket is the most attractive
after all.
The Kanawha will make the attempt
to get through to Pittsburg to-day, but
the rivermen seem to be of the opln-
ion that she will not be able to do so.
STEAMBOAT ACCIDENTS IN 1S47.
There were eleven steamboat acct
dents on western waters in 1S47. They
occurred as follows:
On January 49, 1S47, the steamer
Tuscaloosa exploded two boilers at Mo-
bile, Ala, killing a dozen persons. The
steamer James Hewitt rescued all the
wounded passengers who were strug-
Cling in the water
The VIM. R. King was sunk on Feb
ruary 5, 1S47, by colliding with the
Winona on the Tombgbee river. Two
passengers on the King were drowned.
On March 6, 1S47, the steamer Brook
lyn collapsed a hue at point below
Vicksburg. One fireman and passen-
ger We're killed.
On March IS, 1S47 the Medora blew
up near Point Hudson on the Mississip-
pi river Four persons were killed and
several wounded.
On March 20, 1S47, the National was
destroyed by fire at the mouth of the
Kentucky river. The clerk of the boat
lost his life in this accident.
On March %. 1S47, the steamer Clin-
ton was burned up near Bonnecaro, on
the Mississippi river, causing the loss
of six lives.
On April 4th. 1S47, the steamer ST.
mon Kenton burst 8 connection pipe,
killing a deckhand. And on August
2Sth in that year she met with a second
mishap, the same as the first. This
time one person was drowned and four
Others were scalded.
On November 10, 1S47, the steamer
Talisman was sunk by coming into col
lision with the steamer Tempest On the
Mississippi river. Nearly one hun
dred persons were drowned in this ac-
cident.
On Wednesday. December % 1S47,
the beautiful steamer A. n. Johnston
blew up at Manchester, on the Ohio
river About one hundred and sixty
passengers were on board at the time
the explosion occurred. and about
eighty of that number We're either kill
ed by the explosion or drowned The
steamer Daniel Boone, which was at
that time an opposition boat to the
Simon Kenton in the Cincinnati and
Maysville trade. took on thirty-seven
dead and wounded from the Johnston's
wreck.
The little local steamer Peru sank
on December of this same year on the
Ohio river just below Moundsville. The
records do not show any casualties
from this accident, and it is very prob
able there were none