The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-07-28

scale. as regards loss of life. 1t would be
impossible to give anything like details
of the amount of damage done TO dwell
/ ing houses in this vicinity. Those that
were not totally destroyed were very
greatly damaged. Beyond Cedar ave-
nue. fortunately there were but few lives
lost, at least rs far as could be ascertained.
Some two or three are reported. A man
named Michael Slaughter was in
tavern at about nine o'clock. When the
danger became apparent he seized child
in his arms, and rushed through the door
into the street He and the child are
supposed 10 have been drowned. At the
foot of Spring Garden run the
Loss Of Life was Fearful.
Here on Centre street, parties who APP
pcared with skitf discovered a man
hanging on to the Ioof of house. At
that time the water on the street was
some Is feet deep; they took the skitf under
the place where the man was hanging
and told him to drop, the height being
small, ~ the skiff was nearly on a level
with the second story windows. The
man jumped and was saved. He then
told a man in the skIff that his family WIS
back in the house, consisting of his wife
and three or four children. He had
gotten onto the roof, jumped from that
on 10 another roof andwhcn he reached
Centre street. the house was destroyed,
and with il were lost his wife and three
or four children, and the children of an
other family also making in all, 10 souls.
On Chestnut street in Casper RauS saloon,
among others were Philip Hess, con
stable, and Henry Schaiier;
they rushed out Of the saloon into
the street That was the last seen of them
alive. Hess body WAS discovered this
morning, clinging TO fire plug with one
hand. SchatierS body has not been re
covered yet. Another man rushed from
the Paris saloon with Hess and SChaffcr;
his body was recovered in ward between
Chestnut and Centre streets About "A
mile out the run, man named VIM.
Pcats
Tied His Family, His wife and Sew
eraI Children,
with clothes line in room, fearing
some of them would rush away in their
alarm and bc lost. The house and entire
family were saved. Three-quarterS of II
mile up the run the breast of the food
would give cross section of four feet IN
height and 80 feet in width, and
bv the time it had reached the
city limits il had assumed the pro
portions uf the Mill river flood. The
number of persons lost is undoubtedly
considerably more than already rccoy-
ed. At Woods Run, on the same side of
the river as Butchers Run and Spring
Garden, and four miles west of them, AT
the head, two houses occupied by Pat
Farley and Frisbcc Dcnning were swept
away. Farley saved the families by
means of II rop" tied to Il tree on th"
hillside. John German and three chi
drcn were lost in the next house. Mr.,
German,
Guided by Flash Of Lightning.
seized gas pipe and escaped. A mum
bcr of other buildings were washed
away, and as the food subsidized German
children were found south of the rail
road track. and the bodies of two of
Fndcns little ones were discovered.
baby ten months old at the bridge, and
little boy, aged about ten years, far out
wilkins avenue. These five bodice n
terrible sight, lie at McCa-kcy n Mcllen-
r. livery stable. near the scene. On the
south side Of the Ohio river Temper
auccviIlr was the heaviest sufferer. Here
"A narrow stream, known Il, Saw Mil
run cnpti"s into the OHIO. Up thls
,trrnm hardly IA vcstigc of ia" two iron
bridge, remains. Stones two or thrr"
feet in thickness by five feet in length
were torn from the abutmcnts and car
ricd down the stream like pieces of cork.
Five wooden bridges and thrc" tr"stl"
works over the same stream were also
swept away. The gHsumctcr at the gns
work. Wa nl,o badly injured.
". r.. & !. VI. Taylor, salt work,
were completely wrecked. L",s $1,000.
At Brooks. Bullantinc x Co.. refinery
> tank. . stills and , worms, and 30
feet Of pip" were swePt away; - brick
store near the Washington turuplk"
owned 10y Geo. X. Gumb"l and occupied
bv Mr.. Scigl"r, was struck by the flood
and melted away 80 that nothing can
now be- seen of where it stood saw" pool
f water. Mr.. Sciglcr estimates his los
in .tock at about $1,000, the building Wa.
worth about $1,000. The lot on which
the store building stood has also dIsaP-
pcared. IN" cours" Of the run being here
changed - that it, bed Is now where the
building Wa formerly located. Ab"v"
tho fork. Of the run The following build
ing, were destroyed: Mr.. Nanycr.
house: j. I.O.Conncr house; W stephen.
hou-.; :. S"mplcs house; Miner, Hall:
Geo. Al.op. house; two slaughter house
belonging to Vim. Archibald. two log
house, bcloging to Geo. Gray; Patton.
block. consisting Of four house; Gray n
Bell carpenter shop and blacksmith
hop and iiftv coal car belonging 10 th"
-arnr firm. who estimate their los at SO
600 mostly in rolling -t"ck aud mining
implements.
Dead List.