The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-05-29
Cuts and bruises On the head and fac

Cuts and bruises on the head and face
were frequent. O. man put his hands
up to protect his head and the hail cut
his hands SO severely he cannot use
them.
A fine and very yaluat e horse belong
ing to the Top Mill was standing at thu
m ! door with load of nails on dr.
WI IN the storm came. Rendered frant
by the singing hail he rushed down the
bank to the river and was drowned.
The train on the Hempfeld railroad
which left here at three o'clock was
stopped when near the glass house, the
storm rendering the railroad impassa-
bic, and the windows of the cars were
all broken out by the hail. ....
MARsHALL's COAL BANK.
Hardly had the storm subsidized before |
our people were shocked with a rumor
that eight persons had been caught by |
the caving in of the mouth of Marshalps |
coal bank, near Fulton, and that they
were drowned. We at once went out |
there, and fOuRd that seven men and |
boy'had been at work in the bank when |
the storm came up, but the rushing in
of the water warned them to flee for
their lives. The men got out by wading
in water should'r deep, carrying the
boy with them. Two mules were left
in the pit aud they are probably
drowned.
ON THE STREETS.
The scene on the streets was one of
wild confusion. Horses left without
drivers, ran madly about, breaking
wagons and buggies and scattering their
contents in every direction. On Market
street, in front of DIR. Wingerter's, the
hail was piled up as high as the fence.
In front of the Second Ward Market
House it was piled up two feet six
inches highin the middle of the street,
stopping the passage of the street cars
completely. On Main street, between
Monroe and Quincy, it lay ever the en-
tire surface of the street to depth of
perhaps two feet. Trees were denuded |
of their branehesand were broken off
or torn up by the roots, and the pave
ments were green with their foliage.
Gardens are ruined. The falling
hail cut off tender plants and shrubs as
if done by knife.
The vineyards about the city are
stripped clean of leaves and most of the
vines are broken down. The hopes OF
our grape growers were destroyed in
single hour.
In the country adjacent the fruit trees
are ruined. On some of them not a
branch remains, and others are lying on
the ground
The operators in the Western Union
Telegraph Office were obliged to leave
the room. The lightning, conducted on
the wires, shot across the room in
tongues of blue flame, making it very
shocking for any one to stay there long
AS an evidence of the enterprise of
our citizens, we may remark that the
storm was hardly over before some of
them were hard at work putting in
new window glass, and before dark it
was the fashion for men to march home
ward with boxes of glass on their shout.
ders and rolls of putty in their hands.
OVER THE RIVER.
The STERN struck the river just above
Martinsville. The like destruction
of glass, of fruit ices and shrubbory |
prevailed as here.
In Bridgeport, too, there is scarcely
an unbroken window pe1e, while gar
dens, orchards and win eyards are in
vo' Ved in one general ruin.
We heard last evening that the
ma 1der of the roof of the bridge over
Back river had been carried away, but
were too weary to go and see.
EXTENT OF THE STORM.
There was very little bail over Wheel
ing Creek, and none at all in Riches
town, nor did the rain reach Benweod
in any force.
AS we have said, the course of the
storm was from the Northwest. Reach
ing this city it turned and went due
East, covering q strip perhaps a mile
and half in width.
Nothing equalling this storm he's ever
| before visited this section of country,
and we believe, when all the damage
done is known it will be found to excel
in destructiveness any hail storm known
on the continent. We estimate the loss
in the city at $4,000. When the loss
to vineyards, gardening, orchards and
farms is added to this we shall not be
astonished if the figures reach 100000.
Just about dark last night the win.
dows of heaven we're opened again, and
for the second time the streets were
flooded and cellars filled with water
Our people will have to take marine
insurance policies if this sort of thing
continues.
EPMisses' Caters, so cents;lMsses'