Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-11-28
Yesterday. Record.
Rise

Yesterday the Ohio river at Wheel
ing could have foated the battleship
Kentucky with plenty of water under
her keel
The stage Of water at midnight was
thirty-two feet seven inches, and ris-
ing at the rate of four inches an hour,
but the indications were that the force
of the food was spent. and that at the
utmost not over eighteen inches would
be added to the ample supply OF aqua
impura in sight.
1t was day of anxiety-not to say
| alarm-for a considerable proportion
of the people of the city and sur
rounding towns, for the air was filed
with rumors dire and dreadful. The
man who prognosticated forty feet or
over was out, and his lungs were in
good condition. He spread his predic-
lions abroad with a lavish hand--or
rather tongue-and the result was mild
CONSERVATION. The Register an
nounced yesterday morning that tho
probable stage would be thirty-four
feet, the calculation being carefully
made. We only missed it by a few
inches, which is fair work, taking into
consideration the Eighty figures sent
out from Pittsburg. The signal officer
up there is about as bad as anybody,
and the official in charge of the Par
kersburg station is his friend and bro
Their. for late yesterday afternoon he
sent word to this city that the people
should prepare for thirty-nine foot
stage with forty feet as the outside
figure. This warning was bulletined
by the Register as per request. but the
authors name was placed at the bot
tom of it, that he might obtain full
credit.
AT noon yesterday the mark at the
landing indicated twenty-six feet and
rising at the rate OF eleven inches an
hour, a slight falling OF from the
morning rate OF Increase. At o'clock
it was thirty feet and rising seven
inches an hour, but the rise soon be-
gan to fall off, and at midnight tbs
stage was thirty-two feet seven inches.
with the rate Of increase about four
inches. At that hour the best judges
did not expect over eighteen inches
additional, and expected the rise TO
stop before or by daylight.
1t was day OF unusual interest foI
many hundred people. From early
morning until long after dark the
streets along the water 'front.' OF the city
were fairly crowded with sight-seers,
and there was always a very consider
able group about the city's Justly ceIe-
brated river marks endeavoring TO hg-
ure out just how much water there
was, while Captain John Crawford'a
telephone bell tinkled unsteady and
necessarily and be must have answered
about .001 enquiries. So did the news
papers. Everybody from Dan to Beer
sheba. including the inhabitants OF
Japho, Enron, Gathrimmon and Bel
laire, and even to the remotest parts 0f
BGlhJoIa cla Rsta4h z aLI3A9GE ~ MAR
tins Ferry. wanted 70 know about the
river. what Il was going 70 do. how
high it was, and the cause and where
fore, generally and partieularly-ana
they wanted to know II every hour
up TO and including that awful time
OF night when graveyardg are supposed
TO yawn. They got what they asked
for-and when they asked again. and
yet again. and some more. they received
information 10 dulcet tones from
young man who IS now suffering from
nervous prostratIon superinduced BY 4
desire TO please. but directly cansed By
the curiosity habit His physicians
think he w. recover.
The business men early took precau~
tons. In many large establishment
the clerks we're put upon special duty
and elevators were employed in hoist
/ ing goods out Of cellars. with the rssuls
that last night there was many a thou.
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