The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-02-26
DANGER POINT TWENTY-FIVE FEET
Persons Along Water Front
Clearing Out Easements.
WARNINGS SENT POLICE
Weather Bureau Asks That Citizens
Likely to suffer From Flood Ee
Notified OF Situation.

Upon a warning received from the
Weather Bureau this morning the police
have notified all persons along the river
front and in the low sections along B
Street and Louisiana Avenue to prepare
for a food The water at 10 o'clock was
eighteen feet above normal at HarDe-.v
Ferry and rising al the rate OF a foot an
houF' according to a despatch from the
weather observer at that point.
AT noon word Vas received at the Of
hees Of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
from Baltimore, stating that the water
was nineteen feet hing at the Ferry and
rising at the rate OF nine inches an hour.
Interference With Trains.
The movement Of trains has been some
what interfered with. the tain due here
at 12-35 o'clock, being more than
an hour late The train wire frcrn
the West is not working and direct com
nunication can only be had as far as
Washington Junction. Incoming passen-
gers state that the river Is a roaring tor
rent and that it is filed with large cakes
Of ice that are thrown about in the Wild
est confusion and ground TO pieces IN the
force Of the crush
a Freshet Is Threatened.
Serious damage to the Chesapeake and
Ohio Canal is feared, and If the water
continues TO rise the tracks Of the rail-
road at several exposed points viii proba-
bly, be immersed II the water continues
70 rise several hours longer at the ferry
it viii be almost impossible 20 avoid a
freshet at this point At nigh tide this
morning the water on the Washington
wharves was only about eighteen inches
above normal and remained at that point
IRON about 1850 o'clock until fifteen min
utes later, when 1t began 10 faH. BY 1
O'Clock il had receded about three inches.
The steamer Charles Manchester left her
wharf this morning for a trip down the
river, but On reaching the forks Of the
channel opposite Giesboro Point the river
was so threatening that the steamer. put
back 10 her wharf and abandoned the
trip The current is very swift, and the
stream is filed with large blocks CT ice
from the upper river.
Work OF Commodore sutton.
Commodore Sutton went out early this
morning with his entire feet Of ice boats
and is battling bravely with the ice foe
in the Georgetown channel He is ex-
perienCing considerable diEcuity in pre-
venting jam at the Long Bridge. and had
il not been for the foresight Of the Har-
bor Master In clearing the stream Of the
ice which had formed here the river
banks would have already been unable 10
hold the water. dis acticn vas The sub
ject Of . connenLatory resolution at a
meeting OF one OF the Citizens Associa-
tions last night-
When Danger il Near.
AT the weather Bureau IL was stated
that it required about twenty-five feet Of
water at Harper's Ferry 10 ensure serious
damage n this city. and that with the
wafer at its present height At that point
the effects would probably be felt here
within ave Or SIX hours.
As yet tie cellars in the lower sections
Of the city are dry. but the merchants
are removing the Perishable goods to the
upper Eoors- Tie dfst sign OF high water
is usually 10 Re found in the old Marble
saloon. ca tie point at the intersection
OF c Street, Pennsylvania Avenue, and
NiEch Street Even here no water is yet
20 lc seen. but at the next high tide there
is lit-Ic douet that this room, which is
in the basement. Will be flooded.