The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-06-09
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straub Drowned at 9Ienn's Hun Tues.
day Night-PaFtiCuIara Of the Terrible
AlIaIF-ThFee OF the bodies Recovered,
Early yesterday morning information
was received in this city that a whole fam.
lily by the name Of straub had been
drowned at Glenn's Run, four miles north
OF here, on the P. W. & Ky. Railroad. A
messenger was at n C. dispatched from
this office to ascertain the particulars, and
gather all the information possible respect.
ing the dreadful occurrence. All along
the county road leading from the city to
the scene OF the drowning the attention Of
our reporter was attracted to the scenes Of
destruction wrought by the tornado Of
the preceding night. The beautiful gar.
den lots that adorn the stretch OF country
lying between the river, the railroad and
county road, were either inundated or had.
been 80 rudely visited by the winds that
their crops were lying PROSTATE, and
months Of patient labor and toll were de.
stroyed In a few hours.
dLENN's Run.
There 10 q very pretty little stream Of
water that discharges itself into the river
Just west Of the residence Of r. G. Barr,
Esq, known as Glenn's run. It comes
down from the high hills north Of the
National road, and Is neither very big,
very deep nor very dangerous at any time.
Near the mouth Of the stream, between
the River road and the railroad, Is a pretty
little pasture lot that forms a dell, and
at the southwest corner stood an old
school house that had done service as O
tenant house for many years. The house
belonged 10 Mr.. a. I. Garden, OF this city,
and was only rented from year to year for
q nominal. sum to such poor families as
were unable 10 hire more p%retentious
dwellings. This year 1t had been let TO
Fred. Straub, 9 Swiss, who came to this
country thirteen months ago. Mr.. Straub's
family consisted OF himself, wife and Ave
children, as follows: Fritz, eight years
and six months of.age; Mary, seven years
old; LOUISE, five years; Frena, nearly
three years old, and Albert one and a half
years old. straub works at the Top mill
blast furnace, and Ia an intelligent, frugal,
hard working young man. He 10 q nephew
Of Jakob Iilles, . market gardener, and
also Of Mich. Straub, who lives on the Nc.
Oolloch farm neat Glenn's rum, and he
has also Q number Of relatives Ia Monroe
county, o.
ITS STORY.
Our reporter found straub lying pain.
fully upon a,lounge In the house OF Mrs.
Herman Weiske, . short distance from
bis late residence. He greeted US kindly,
and babe us welcome In very broken Eng.
lish. With such difficulty did he speak
English that we were compelled to have
recourse 10 Miss Mary Wslske, who trans.
lated TO us the following story Of the
drowning;
ut became very evident to Us before
midnight last night that there was 10 be A
big rise ID the waters Of the run, and I
and my family were all up and looking
out for II. | eat On one bed in the room
with one or two Of the children while nv
vile occupied the othsr bed. with the
youngest children. About twelve O'Clock
l think 1t was, we knew the water was
around the house by thestriking Of sticks,
rails and logs against Il. l got up and
went 10 the door, saying as l went TO my
wife, 1t looks 10 me as II there Il
nothing left for tB bat drowning She
replied '1tdoes seem so,' and I opened the
door. The room filled with water, fush.
Ing In In torrents, throwing the sOanIy
furniture hither and thither, and tearing
down the partition between The two foons
the house. 1saw that something must
be don't. or we would all be drowned In
The building, and BeiEing an az started 10
knock of some boards from the lower aida
IN order 70 let the water course through
without interruption, but as l started
the house move and start forward
With the current, and l had but Tina Ia 1
ook toward my family when with q fus6 /
! started forward, and Of the same mo. ]
nent went 10 pieces 90 completely as II I
Knocked asundef by q baLteting ram. In
moment we were In The waters, three Of
he children by themselves and the two
youngest In the arms Of their mother,
These | kept my eyes upon for a moment 4
two, but the whirlpool Of waters soon
atried them beyond my gaze and they
Vefe lost From the peculiar cohf9.
Of the ground At this point b
be waters we're not able 10 A
each The river directly, but did d
o In . CitCuitouS manner, and thus We
yete carried round and round in The