Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-02-13
Among the Stricken People Of
Martins Ferry,
WHICH BAFFlE ALL DESCRIPTION
Individual Losses Of Those Whose All Was
Swept Away by the Angry Waters
In a Single Night Of
Devastation.

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hay stacks, wagons, bottles, bed steads
windows, and five thousand other thing
lie around promiscnously. Where on
and two story dwellings stood nothing re
! main but the foundations. Houses hav
been carried away, overturned and demol
ished, together with their contents. Bridge
have been washed away and few fences ant
outbuildings remain. Immense logs lii
up against houses. la some places drift anc
old buildings and debris are piled W
twenty feet high. g.
Cellars are Full OF Water,
foundations giving way and chimneys fall
lpg IN. Floors have fallen in aud window.
broken. Floors are covered with mud &c
the depth Of several inches, and in many
places this is not only so of the first but the
second. Straw is noticed cinging to cell.
iIgs and marks can be seen anywhere from
tie foundation up to the second-story win
dows and in some places further than this.
Furniture is falling TO pieces aud pianos
End organs ruined. Fine bedsteads aud
| Other furniture looks like It had been sand.
| pspered, the varnish all coming of. Doors
have been wrenched from their hinges, ana
| clocks, queensware, lamps, marble-top
| stands, stoves, ornaments and many other
things all broken up and lying sround ia
an unrecognizabie mass. Hundreds Of
homes nave BEEN broken up. Many houses
are vacated, with the windows out aud
doors down, and their contents, ii there
sre any, exposed. In many houses men.
women anu childrel are covered with muu
and dirt from head to foot. endeavoring IA
restore the beauty of their homes. Some
were barefooted, some wearing nothing on
their feet but stockings, cleaning out mud
scruhbing and cleaning up. Children were
running around DRrefooted and &C .ntily
clothed,
Playing in the Mud and Water,
Parlors were turned into places for storing
potatoes, flour, and so forth. Men, women,
children, chickens, hogs. dogs and cats
we're all housed up together. Some hal
been been working continuously for days
snd nights without rest, and the effect OF
this work was scarcely noticeable. Some
were crying over their losses, and others
bore signs of much the greater distress. La
some psrts Of the house several members
.! the family were busily engaged in "iy
ing up things" while daughter, mother
or lson was writing the sad news Of the
calamity to far off friends and relatives,
with the floors wet or covered with mud
and water. They were sim sickensd.
To give anything like q comp.tte 70 &C ,ou1t
would be impossible. The imagin atom,
with the facts known, fails to exageeril-
the condition of affairs. A worse calamity
it appears could not occur.
Many People We're Engaged
N removing back into their houses, ald
some TO Wheeling where they have par
chased houses and where they will live
with kind friends and relatives. In the
stores damsged goods are being sold al
your own prices and at auction. Some of
'AaH9 NGhapts lost all they had. Family
of many years earning sEo-,toa nnnte2n
# a lifetime collection. The loss TO VI r'
tins Ferry is fully as great. il not great'r'
tban first reported, and will not fall short
of $3.50 900 or 500, 900, besides the loss I"
The manufactures in town and the eH'H
their suspension will cause. In addition
10 the loses already mentioned, those ap
pended below were asceriained yesterday
by personal visit to those whose nam -
sppear. The list is complete one, an'
will be OF great interest TO our Marhhs
Ferry readers and many others. The m An
ufsctories with one or Two eHcepUo ~
have been mentioned, and the II, oelp"
consists mainly OF losses sustained ny pr
vste parties in property tnd hOu'eh'''
g. odS.
Some Of the LOsses.
We Eros on their agricultural WORK
..' 'oae nearly 81, coo; Miss AM
v;, stock OF groceries, go; ID
:, household goods, 50; John Nader
r,,A vi quo:s nd household goods ''''
sylvester NJ = re, household goods, 30
GLou,s McH .ury. h)u ehnld gpot', io
Thomas Blauk;nsop, hTu'eaoId goIi'
SO or 60: Mrs. Mcfarland, ~: william
Rothermond, household goods, including
piano, 60; Mrs. Mary Z. Lewis, bon'e,h 1!"
goods 30; Jsmes Ralston, holseh 10
goods, $50; George Snodgrass, ~
! Mrs. Sallie Howell, property and
household goods, 275; John Wiilian',
furniture, books, papers, ciotoins 40"
property, $50; James Turning, proP-r!
and nous ehold goods, so; II. Carson, organ
household goods and property, ipi scot'
Hull, household goods, l9C; ID: Mcdenfy
i40: Thos. Morgan, 100; s. B. Williams. tw"
houses, /, 600; A. Rothermund, groceries
ard property. 300; Mrs. LYDIA RoniCk,
nisno and household goods, fully i0D;
St.nele. household goods, chickens snh
nyoptrty. 90; James Brooks DO, 2OJ; Jas
Keesey, stock, liquors, iurn TUE
and property 500; j.. Raus1rrs
furniture and property, 800; Thomas ih
simmons, furniture and property ~
Csptsin John Hutchison, property; 20;
chict ems. 800, II not more; San Husklns
household goods, 900; Captain William
Orr. stock, property ard furniture, 80
Thomas ChhrlstoD, property and mouse
hold goods. 30, Mrs. Macy Zane, proper
tv and furniture. 80; Charles Morris
household goodp, $50; John Beck, stock
liquor, etc, go; T. DoTnsy, properly
SO; Gray Evans property aud fd'nitnre'
.Oo: Lon Hoot, icrnituTe, etc, lp
WIDOW Gordon, prop'f:y SAD housep9lU
Goods. 800; Mrs WO,t, r:'Isriy sad house
hold goods, 3o1; Mf,. Gr"; Cine, p'op.it'
ard furniture 20, L. ArkeI.nann, meat
property. wagon, e. so: CGarlss Hum
phreyyille, prop Ey sgd household gods
300: George Wes., Lous-h0ld goods, l5l
Frank Sesls. prOpei Is, furniture, etc 70
Thomas Peppers, fg-nIiIre aud pto11rty
$50: NJ. Rhoan, t0c anu money, 1880
Jake Hynts, $50. D S!eSart. bl.sEsm II
chop. tools and properly, Soo. MIA. M,,,
Springfield, Household goods, ~
Mrs s. Heubsrdt, properly, etc: 5N
H. Wldwcod, pr5rtrs, organ, mschinefj
| tools, etc , 800 or 1000; Mrs. B-nla nj
Dawson. holsebold encds. 2oS: 7. Hes:
property and fd:niiufe, 100; +: y Neil
property and fuTnii0ts. DO; Geo Del
proterty, organ and hod.ch6id goods, ~
or 500; u. Fl Souders. propsfT, tools an
stock. go: W. c. Hynes. bousehotd good
100; A. Mead, sewing machines .nd soci
100. Dave johnson. furniture and ciotHs.
30; Mrs. Lang. household goods, 2G
Mrs. Tet, household goods, 81
Widow u. 4. johnson. property. ciothini
snd furniture, 80; Isssc Cots, groceries
potatoes, property and furniture, go; Gs'
Meier, go; Mary Aes.hrn, 10: Job
Trush. furniture, etc. f6D; N. vsn k-r
l6c; Evan slsven. property and bouseho'
goods, 200; psf Hiegsns, property. etc
loo; Pat. McDoDnsnrh, stock Of liquor
ard property. 100; Fred Rsnsl, meat. etc
l25; Thos. Blinco, money sud househo'
goods, $50; z. Galbrsith. property, erone
, les snd furniture. 500; John KJne. li91or
! etc, 1.l5o; J. Gray. furniture, etc. $50:
: Fetterer, property, groceries, etc. IL.
? John Mack, property. liquor. etc, $50;
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