Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-07-24
MARKS FROM ABOVE.

MARKS FROM ABOVE.
Greensbore-River Z feet inches and
falling. Weather fair and warm.
Steubenvile-River 3 feet inches and
falling. Weather clear and warm.
Brcwnsville-River 5 feet inches and
Oil City-River inches and stationary.
Weather cloudy and warm.
Morgantown-River feet inches ana
stationary. Weather clear and warm.
Pittsburg-River 29 feet and falling at
the dam. Clear and hot.
MARKS FROM BELOW.
Point Pleasant-River 3.2 feet and fall
ing Clear.
Cincinnati-River 95 feet and falling.
Clear
Louisvile-River rising; feet inches
in canal; 2 feet inches on falls; feet
inches below the locks. Gear and warm
Evansvllie--River feet inches and RS
ing Clear and hot.
Cairo-River 10 feet inches and falling.
Fair and warmer.
Menlphis-River feet inches ana fall-
ing Clear and hot.
The marks on the wharf at the
time of going to press showed feet
l inch, stationary.
The steamer Leroy will leave the
wharf at Z O'Clock this morning for
Sistersville. The Sunday excursions
on the Leroy are becoming very popu-
lar.
The Cummins had good trip out for
Cincinnati yesterday.
A number of passenger steamers,
which have been chartered for the ac-
commodation of the Knights Tenn
plars commentaries during the trien-
NAL conclave are awaiting a navigable
stage of water to go to P1ttsburg. The
Virginia. which has been chartered by
a Cincinnati commandery, is now at
Marietta and will go there on the first
rise and remain until after the en-
campment 1t was stated at the head
quarters of the committee to prepare
for the event, that the attendance
promises to be so large, and the de-
mand for accommodations so urgent,
that vessel owners will not take
chances on being able to get up during
the intervening time, and will come
on the first water, expecting to do an
/ excursion business locally until time
for the encampment.
The Leroy takes out her regular ex-
cursion to Sistersville this morning.
In 1874 there were eleven steamboat
accidents on western waters in which
many lives were lost and much valua-
bic property destroyed
On January 8, 1874, the fine steamer
Shepherdess on her way from Cincin-
natl to st. Louis. struck a snag and
sank. The accident occurred on
dark stormy night and those who were
hurled into the water had but little
chance to escape and all would have
persisted had not the steamers Iceland
er and Henry Bry happened along at
the time the accident occurred There
| were upwards of seventy persons
drowned. This was the fifty-ninth
accident.
The sixtieth steamboat accident of
| the west occurred on Friday morning
March /, 1914. The steamer Buckeye
was sung on the Mississippi by coming
in collision with the steamer DeSoto
The Buckeye had about three hundred
hundred s. il Sat ", e were own.
| ed.
The steamer Cleveland running be-
tween Pittsburg and Beaver collapsed
two f1ues on June IA, 1874. There were
two killed and five others dangerously
wounded, making the sixty-first steam
boat accident of the west.
| The sixty-second accident occurred
| on the Mississippi river on the tenth
day of August, 1874. The steamer
Glide was blown up by the explosion
of her boilers. Only one person was
killed in the Glide's accident.
The sixty-third accident was caused
! by boiler explosion On the steamer
Louisiana August II, 1874. The steam
err blew up about fifteen miles above
Bayou Sara, killing seventeen persons.
| Among the killed were William Smith,
| Henry Findlay, J. Goodman, John
Henry, of New Orleans, Jacob Cross of
! Natchez, and twelve United States
soldiers.
The sixty-fourth mishap was also
| due to an explosion in which the fine
steamer Swan burst two boilers near
New Orleans, August 16, 1874, killing
VIM. Andrews, the pilot, Robert FL
lott, bar tender, Peter Aimes, Steers
&man and negro fireman. The cap
tain and several Others were badly
| scalGed.
On the twenty-ninth day of August,
1874, the steamer Keokuk was snagged
and sank at the foot Of st. Genevieve
Island, on the Mississippi river
| Twelve persons were drowned In this,
the sixty-fifth steam boat accident of
| the west
The sixty-sixth accident took place
September 8, 1874. While on her way
from ST. Louis to New Orleans the
steamer Gulrare was sunk by collid
ing with the steamer Westwood. The
accident occurred about twenty miles
, above Helena The Gulnare was struck
on the starboard side and was badly
| crushed. There were three persons
| drowned. while others had very mar
row escapes.
| 1t was on the twenty-fifth of October
| 1874, that the siXty-seventh accident
took place. The steamer Lucy Walk
er exploded three boilers all at the
same instant while descending the riv-
err at New Albany, Ind. Mr.. Matlock,
of the steamer Mazeppa, and about
twenty others lost their lives. The
steamer Gophar went to the wreck of
the Lucy Walker and rescued large
number of persons.
The sixty-eighth accident was the
explosion of the ST. Charles on Deem
Der 7, 1874 The explosion took place
near the levee at St. Louis. No one
was killed, but several were injured,
On the night of December IA, 1914
| the beautiful steamer Belle of Clarks
| vile. was crushed and sunk by coming