The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-02-11
THE SOUTH END,
Scenes fu tho Sixth and Eighth Wards 4
the Past Two Dnyb.


the Past Two Days.
The condition Of atiairs in the Eighth
ward has considerably changed since Sat.
urday. On that day an INTgLLlogxcER re.
porter spent the day with the relief com.
mittee. Yesterday the waters had recedod
greatly. Fences were once more fences
where the day before tho relief boat had
gona as EASILY as could be imagined.
Saturday boats carried provisions in all
directions from the Glass house; yesterday
wagons did duty. Saturday water was
sill over the frat floors; yesterday the
scrub brush, ecrapcr aud broom were at
a premium. Saturday reports OF hungry
and iamished people were coming in from
all directions; yesterday food was plenty.
Saturday people we're lying around the
furnace fires Of the Glass house, their only
shelter; yesterday they were cleaning,
mending and patchin. up the remains ol
once pleasant and cosy homea.-
The cause itself was bad enough but the
effects are far worse. Mud and pline lie
thick in every house, except q fsw, ia
Ritchietown. Beadstcsds are in pieces aad
covered thick with river slime. Mattresses
and bedding ARE soaked and stretched in
Ill ways 10 dry. Stonoware and china are
scattered and broken. Those fortunate
enough to possess silver services, fish up
pieces here and there. Pictures are ruined
and all the little articles that 90 to make up
Il pleasant and happy home are gone and
gone forever.
No wonder that the s:ousest heart grows
weak and that the housewife is ready ia
give up in dtspair at the sight OF The ruin
wrought. The household peDates are gone
aud nothing remains but to start again,
But outside oil these smaller lossea,
which money cannot repay, arc o.hert
financially more ssrious. an estimate ofthe
loss juat in this portion 1.-THE town ia beyond
present computation. Tho cltizens realiza
that the hand Of Providence has been laid
heavily upon them, and without any esti.
mating 20 brayeiy to work.
... FREAKS OF TIE FLOOD.
From the German Protestant church
down, everything has been under water.
no dry spots anywhere-.nd yesterday the
remains OF that busy portion Of the city
were sight .ha! could not be compre.
hended, there was 80 mach OF it. The
vast sheet OF waller OF Saturday prepared
the mind not tho least bit ior the sceue Of
the rain OF yesterday.
Tho number Of houses actually lost, in
comparison with the number left Standing,
is small. But fences were lifted
from tho ground and thrown into all con.
ceiyable shapes and forms. Twisted
around houses, hanging to lamp pcsta, il,
trees, on roofs, lodged with barns and
stables on the tops Of smaller houses. Ont.
houses broken and torn to pieces; up7ei
and on their sides; tioated away and turned
upside DOM; dwellings in all Imaginable
conditions and circumstances. Ii all were
noted volums could be written. Ba!
there was much sameness. the only variety
being the different and odd freaks Of posi-.
ton.
The Baltimore & Ohio track vas covered
With barns aud outhouses, which mad to be
removed before engines cou!d~pass. The
p, w. Il KY. extension in places is iammcd
with houses piled on each other to a grea;
height.
Near the Riverside furnace part OF the
track had been lifted bodily and twisted
like wire, the rails being underneath
Down in the neighborhood Of B,sgs' run
the flood was ut lis worst. All tho white
tenement houses OF the Benwood mai
works are gone, s.p, los.
As the river receieS the work OF dessruc
ton is going Oil. Houses ara topping over
falling on others. The B. 4 0. had aevera
large buildings across their tracks here
and were busily e1gaged palling them Of
aud to pieces with log chaihs; while tieil
gravel train was busy repairing tho track
for the distance OF half mile, tho sroune
having been washed away from under tbs
tea. s.F.
FORCE or TIE CURRENT.
The side Of the brick engine house OF th
Riveraide furnace was knocked in by 1
large barge which wns lying on one side
broken in two. These arc only iso!atet
cases, but show how tho waters had nc
mercy and spared not. In the lagoon tha
usually lies In this vicinity several house!
were piled high on each other, and thei
tops served as the roosting place for forlorl
chickens. I.gt "a e l,2.79
AT the glue factory Mr.. Gilleland hat
done noble work, and It is owing largely t,
bis work, supplemental to that Of the con,
mittec, that this ncighborhood was ssyet
from starvation. 34' :.,y
Here it might be said that no men could
or did work harder than the relief commi,
tee OF the Esignth ward. Dlr. Auten Rsy
mann, Capt. Noise and Mr.. Robt. Phil
| lips. Mr.. Reymann Saw that provision
were furnished aud the two latter gentle
men attended to the distribution. To