The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-05-29


ments. when the hail came down. At
first in particles as big as pistol balls
gradually increasing in size and power
Some pieces fell, we are reliably inform
ed, that weighed three-fourths OF a
pound, but the average weight was
three ounces.
Windows were broken everywhere in
the central portion of the city. These
great Jumps of ice as big as a mans list
would strike a window and shiVer every
pane of glass in it. The city looks as
if it had Just passed through a siege.
In fact there were not as many broken
windows in Vicksburgh after the sur.
render as there were IN Wheeling yes
terday.
All the windows on the south and
east sides of the streets in that portion
of the Wheeling between the suspen-
sion bridge and the creek are broken,
and in North Wheeling all on both sides
eff the streets.
The Grant House has every window
broken on Bridge street, and most of
those on Main street. 1t will cost $500
to repair it and the damaged furniture.
The Mcclure House did not suffer so
severely. Itlost 9l7 lights, which will
cost $500 to replace. Messrs. Goodwin
g. Co. are also losers to the amount of
$500 in damaged furniture.
The Island Foundry of d. Linn & Co.
had l043 panes Of glass broken.
The Cathedral had stained glass
broken to the value of perhaps $1,000.
The Convent at Mt. de Chantal suffers
great loss in broken windows. The
large window over the altar is ruined.
The loss in windows broken by the
hail aud goods damaged by the water
OVERLOOKING the cellars will reach $50, 600
at least.
The top story of the west wall of the
First Ward school house was demolished.
1t fell inside, taking with it the joists,
tearing them 6ht and breaking them off,
filing the cellar with debris. A parti-
ton wall is cracked from top to bottom
with the violence of the gale. One of
the workmen was on the wall not five
minutes before it fell.
The sheet iron roofing of the Balti-
more x Ohio railroad freight house was
torn off as if it had been paper, and was
piled up on the other side of the street.
One immense sheet of the roofing was
carried over to John Reid's brewery, on
South street.
A house belonging to Mr.. Robinson,
on Market street, near the foot of the
hill, occupied by negro families, was
partially demolished, the persons inside
having narrow escape.
John Balls house, on Bedilliouis Lane
was blown down. We have not heard
whether any one was injured.
ACCIDENTS.
The city was filled with rumOrs OF
persons having lost their lives or broken
their limbs. We have endeavored to
sift out the truC from the false, and to
give only what we believe to be reliable
1t is reported that a man and boy
were out in boat above the Top Mill,
when the squall struck them, swapping
the boat and drowning them both. We
were unable to run this rumor down,
and give it because our informant be.
lieved it.
A young man named Prettyman, liv.
ing 10 East Wheeling, while assisting
his father to manage team of horses
rendered frantic by the pelting hail,
was thrown from the wagon and had
his collar bone and leg broken. The
father was badly bruised and cut about
the head and face with the hail.
Fritz Yahrling had his arm broken.
He was in buggy with another man,
and the storm caught them Just as they
reached the residence of William S.
Goshorn, in North Wheeling. Yahrling
jumped from the vehicle and slipped,
striking his arm upon the curbstone and
breaking it. His companion also fell in
getting out of the buggy, and skinned
the side of his face badly. The two
went to Mr.. Goshorns house, where
they obtained refuge from the storm,
but hardly was the door opened before
the horse walked in behind them. Be-
ing hitched to the buggy, he could get
in the hall bat be couldn't get the bug
gy in, and the young lady who opened
the door-the men being in a rear ap-
partment having their wounds cared for
was too frightened at the appearance
of the animal to think to cut the har-
ness, 30 there he stood in the hall dur
ing The storm. The door being opened
gave passage to the food, aud conse-
quently the floors were deluged with
water and the carpets and furniture de-
stroyed.
Robert Sweeney was on tue lsland
holding his horse during the storm. An
inmensa hail stone struck the horse
and another struck Mr.. Sweeney, knock
ing them both down. The horse -fell on
him, breaking his collsr-bone.
Pat Heftley was thrown out Of bis
cart and very severely injured.
A little girl was washed into . cellar
just being built, on Main street. Aman
named Marshall went to her assistance,
and the tive had very narrow escape
from drowning.