Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-04-23
over FIFTY. THREE FEET
At CINCINNATI TODAY.
TRAINS SHUT OUT OF GRAND
CENTRAL STATION.
THE RISE IS NOW VERY SLOW.
EXPECTED THAT THE WATER
WILL HAVE BEGUN TO RECEDE
AGAIN BY THURSDAY.

over the flood has almost ceased in the
lower Ohio valley. The low water in
the Ohio river below this city has al
lowed the floods from UP the river to
flow rapidly toward the Mississippi.
The situation is still serious up the
river, notably at Ripley, Maysville,
Aberdeen, Portsmouth, Hanging Rock,
Ironton, Ashland, Catlettsburg, Hunt
ingIon, Point Pleasant, Pomeroy, Mari
eta, Parkersburg and smaller places be-
tween Wheeling and Cincinnati. The
crest of the flood is below Wheeling to-
night, and the further down stream it
goes the lower is the rate of rising The
uniform rate of three inches an hour
this morning, fell to two inches before
noon, and as low as one and one-half
inches an hour at Point Pleasant at 2
p. m.
1t usually takes the crest of a flood
two days to reacn Cincinnati from Point
Pleasant, but the present unobstructed
flow is much more rapid than in former
floods. At Portsmouth tonight SO feet
were reached, which means serious con-
dition at points below Portsmouth. The
weather bureau says the food will not
exceed So feet at any time at Cincinnati,
and possibly it may not reach 81 1t is
above SO feet tonight and the maxi
mum will not be reached before to-mor-
row night or Wednesday.
This is about ten feet less than was
anticipated here until the river began
falling last night at Pittsburg. The
food is not as bad as in dozen former
years, and is much below the records of
1897 and 1898 and those of 1888 and
1884.
The property loss in the rural dis
tricts will be very large. Homeless
people will not be kept away from their
..ouses as long as during former floods,
which in some cases lasted as many
weeks as this will continue days in the
spring. The highest stage will be reach
ed at Parkersburg tomorrow and here
the next day, and at the mouth of the
Ohio before the end of the week.
The Weather Bureau here tonight
gave out the statement that the Ohio
river in the Cincinnati district general
ly was above the danger line, from one
foot at Cincinnati to fourteen feet at
Point Pleasant, and rising at an aver
age of two inches per hour 1t indi-
Gated that the rise would continue at
Cincinnati till Wednesday. when the
river will become stationary and soon
begin falling. This bureau predicts
fifty-,four feet here tomorrow morning
and Sc feet tomorrow evening.
The most encouraging information
received by the Weather Bureau was
from Parkersburg. where there was a
rise of only one foot all day, and a
stage of only AZ feet was recorded,
where the local rivermen had antici-
pated 4S feet 1t was expected that
the river would begin falling at Park
ersburg tomorrow. At Point Pleas
art another critical place further down
the river. the water was rising much
more slowly.
AT Pomeroy. which is located in a
great bend, the suffering tonight is re-
ported less than in former floods. The
large furnaces of the Salt Trust are
located here and they have suffered
much loss. as have the lumbermen, the
electric interurban lines. the light and
gas plants and other corporations.
Similar conditions exist at Minersville,
but all the points in the Pomeroy bend
have escaped. The reports from other
up-river points that suffered so severe
" during other floods indicate that no
outside help is needed, that there has
been no loss of life, except in acci-
dental drownings from shanty boats
and that there is no distress for want
of food or shelter.