The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-06-13
THE RIVER s%HRIsKtsa.

Hundreds OF visitors TO the Island Yes.
ierday 10 see what the Wild waves had
been saying In that Locaiity-stout.
town Alias Mudtown-rhe Wreck snd
Ruin.
The food was as good as q circus to the
bridge company. Hundreds OF people
visited the Island yesterday to see the
marks left by 1t. Among them was an In.
rR1IiaRR reporter 40 curious "a the rest.
stonetown and the new Fair Grounds
were inspected first. The board walk, q
short distance below Captain McLure's,
leading to the objective points specified,
Is somewhat %disa,ranged. A wild gazelle
would have trouble in keeping on the
boards. Whole sections are in the mid.
die OF the street. The ends Of boards on
others, in some cases, are warped up like
the ends Of q coal barge, while the very
next ones may dip the other way; that IA,
when you tramp or them. The street,
the whole way To the new fail
tground gate looks to be several
Ieet deep In slime. Here and there
lay logs and limbs Of trees, easnished Q,
intervals with boards, planks, old barrels
and divers other debris left by the late Ia.
mented waters. On the left hand side oil
Front street, going down, rs far % South
Carolina street, there Is but little fencing
visible and what Is standing Ia badly bow
legged and spawned, Q % 70 speak. The
lsmp.posts, the lamps In which burned al
day Saturday, but were carefully extin.
guished In the afternoon by o small boy
from the gas Office on account OF the ex'
pected moon, were also leaning every
which way. and will not be Of much &C
count In helping belated S%tonetowners on
their way home at night until they are
braced up. The varied uses TO which
lamp.posts are put In this county makes
Il essential that none should remain out
Of perpendicular any longer than is abso'
tuteiy necessary.
Around on the river front Of Somehow
the fences were very much tangled mp
Hardly sstrajght one was to be aeen In any
direction. Around the residence Of John
II. Jones the DRIFT wood had apparently
centered, and from there scattered iiseli
all around. The water got in all the base
ments around there, and In q number Of
houses It visited the parlors, dining.roon
and kitchen. The only exception was the
residence Of Capt. Asa Booth; but he wa,
the only man who moved out.
The new Fair Grounds are still there
nay, more! An addition Of soil was made
by the food, and the only damage 1t die
was TO break the platform Ia the center,
but which can easily be repaired at small
cost. By Wednesday, II the weather
keeps fair and bright, work can be re
sumed on the grounds and the project &C
booming ahead as usual.
Zane's orchard was not injured much
by the flood. Adjacent strawberry patches
tand gardens. however, look badly tori
up. Up Broadway and South Penn streets
were wet houses, full cellars, demsged
furniture and stray steps, fences, and light
articles. II is presumed that not less thar
I've hundred rats met their d4ath on tht
Island Friday. They can be seer every
where, but Ohio street seems TO take prec
edence in the defunct meusgerie business
The foods work at the upper end OF tht
Island was described in Saturdays INTEL
~uGgNcRR. Since that time the only dam
age resulting was in the upsetting oLt
stable at the rear Of Charley Mendell
house.
The rise was certainly q big one and i
will be long remembered. With references
to the latter the reporter has no doubt buI
that there are plenty OF people over or
the Island today who are anxious to get
to be seventy years old 30 that they car
tell their grandchildren about the food O.
81; how 1t came up to the sixth.Btory o
some brick houses on Zsue street, ant
washed the gilt balls off the bridge towers
Some whopping yarns are bound to b,
told in years to come Of the high rive
and people who are thinking OF buildin,
rev houses had better come around ant
get a copy Of Saturdays paper to put il
the corner atone,