The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1884-02-27

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Wiley and Couch, which was said
g br some FIVE feet higher than
The great tluod iof 1882, but not.
this precausion, all
our material was completely sub.
and our types, stationery,
cases, Stands, desks and Office fur.
niture danced d merry jig to ths.
laughing waters. Besides this.
our household goods and wearing
Of self and family, were
completely submerged and much
oft rendered unit fof use. our
house was also badly damaged, and.
sllour outbuildings iIoated ID and
fences destroyed.
Whenthe watershed reoeded and
weentered our residence and print.
ing Office building, thelast named,
which tried leave us, our heart
was dismayed, and we were dis.
courageda and almost despaired Of
ever again trying TO regain our
former position, but when we re.
tIscted that there we're many 9th.
ers who were greater sufferers we.
lpoksd.at the matter philosoE aic-
ally, and at once determined q do
Or die. Our house is now rather
habitable, and we issue this paper
from our old Office, yet incrusted
with mud, and with difficultyhaye
picked enough type fron our leaky
Eases, filed with mud, toprint it.
Only those who have tried to get
out a paper under such cfrcum.
stances, can appreciate our trials.
But If our patrons and friends will
come to the rescue by paying up
promptly what they owe this office,
we will try and forget our losses,
and throw all our energy into this
paper. We propose to stay among
our friends, aud assist in whatever
way we can, to rebuild this town,
and help her gain that position
among towns that she ought to
hold. Then let US all go to work
and help one another. There is no
use to stand aaound regretting and
pining over our losses. The only
way to recover is by hard and con.
slant work.
LEON.
The town of Leon suffered se.
yerely. There was hardly a house
in the town but what MAS sub.
merged, and many were moved
from their foundations. The mer.
chants lost heavily BY having their
goods damaged. The loss to the
timber men along Thirteen Mile
creek, in saw logs, lumber, slaves,
railroad ties and .an,bark can
hardly be estimated. Many people
in that part Of the county Have
lost their accumuIations Of years,
and now find themselves without o
cent in tue world. GOO only knows
what is to become Of the homeless
people in this county, and along
the Kanawha Valley.
AT IETART.
The damage done at 1etart vas
uncomfortable compared withother
parts OF this county, butstill many
of the resiIents Of that village lost
heavily. Wehayebeen soengaged
in getting our ONCE in shape again
that we are unable 70 give lhatac.
curate account of the damage to
in different parts Of the
county thatwe would like todo
AT MASON.
The town of Mason being situate
on high ground, did not suffer to
anything approximating that Of
her opposite neighbor, Pomeroy-
The salt furnaces and the saw mills
at that place being the principal
losers, it will take many thousand
dollars to put them where they
were before the food. Very little
private property was damaged
AT CLIFTON.
The town of Clifton escaped
without serious damage. The prin-
to property in this
town was to the nail mill and, salt
furnaces, which lose heavily.
AT HARTFORD CITY.
Z Telsgraphsays The Hartford City
Coal and salt Company's losses, in.
Guiding the flooding of the mine,
have been yariously estimated as
from fifty to one hundred
dollars, and when we
take into account everything, such
as slaves, props, numbers, cappieces
ropes, salt track to river, drum
houses and large quantities Of 9TH
or miscellaneous material impossi.