The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1907-01-24
SUNDAY Is LIMIT
FOR OHIO'S RISE
Stage Today is Forty Three
and One Half
Ohio River Is Backed Ninety Miles
Into Tennessee and Current
Runs Up Stream.
DICK FOWLER HITS BRIDGE

Paducah, the island, Is growing
smaller and smaller each day, with
the river eating up the wharf and
river front and the backwater grad
ually creeping up the sides of the
low ground. the rise in the last "a
hours is nearly uniform with the ris-
es in the last three days, the gauge
this morning registering a rise Of
one foot AMI one-tenth, the stage be-
ing at 43.4 feet.
Official reports set Saturday or
Sunday as the time limit for the riv-
er to keep rising and continue inii-
eating a stage of 45 feet, or slightly
above. the Ohio river continues to
fall in the upper courses, but the
falls are not sufficiently large to ma
terially affect the stage here. At
Cairo the stage is above 48 feet and
probably will go above the govern
ment prediction of 40 feet. The high
state of the Mississippi river comes
particularly untimely for Cairo.
The weather vane on the highest
point of the steamer Dick Fowler
was knocked of In going under the
bridge at Cairo yesterday, and today
will be the last trip that packet will
make until the water goes down. II
necessary, the steamer will be heavi-
ly ballasted on the return trip from
Cairo today, to allow It to get under
the bridge, In the event the river ris-
es that fast.
Ohio river water can be and Is be-
ing drunk at Danville, Tenn, on the
Tennessee river, 80 miles from Pa
ducah. Rivermen do not remember
of having seen backwater from the
Ohio forced so far up the Tennessee
river. In the Cumberland river, the
OHIO has backed up as far as Kut-
tawa. Raftmen were in the city yes
terday looking for towboats to come
up the Tennessee river after their
logs and tow them down stream to
Paducah. Contradictory as 1t may
seem, the current is stronger up
stream than 1t is down stream in the
Tennessee river. Rivermen with
humorous turn Of mind, say, the fric-
ton is so strong here wnere the
Ohio river meets the Tennessee, that
smoke is expected to rise at any time.
The Ohio imperiously overcomes all
resistance and forces itself for 80
miles up that river.
The ferryboat Bette Owen has
discontinued trips to the Illinois
side, though one trip was made
there yesterday to take away sew
eral hundred bushels of corn from
the single high spot for miles. 1t is
the barn which can be seen sur
rounded by water. from this side.
Today the Bette Owen went up to
the high mound on Owens island to
leave a steam corn shelter to be
used in Smelling 5000 bushels of
corn there, for shipment, should the
the water threaten to inundate the
mound. At present 1t lacks but three
feet. At Brookport the ferryboat has
a landing which probably will not be
reached by the water, though here
at the foot of Kentucky avenue sew
eral feet more will make landing
difficult.
All cars were removed from tho
First street tracks OF the Illinois
Central yesterday, but one car for
ice. This morning three hundred feet
Of the tracks opposite the Western
District warehouse were covered and
no trains will be run until the water
goes down. Traffic out of First street
into Jefferson has been stopped by
the water covering the intersection.
and the water is backing up both
First street toward Broadway and
Jefferson street toward Second
street. A hundred barrels of salt were
removed from the waters edge this
morning.
Operations Stopped.
the Paducah Sand company can
not operate the sand chute any long
er, though the digger is still in OPP
GRAFTON. The switch leading from
the main switch and going to the
wholesale houses and the Paducah
Light and Power company is high
and probably will not be put opt Of
service.
A few more feet will put the water
into the scales Of the Pittsburg Coal
company at the foot Of Washington
street. and the city scales will be