The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-02-18
RELHET NOTES
And Relies or tile Flood In tho City
and Vicinity. .=H#rGJI

And Relies or the Flood In tho City
and Vicinity.
The benefits at Charley shay's Theatre last
week nstled the relief committee 1913 90. ~
Hon. A. @. Egerter is at work early and
late. looking after bis share Of the relief work,
which Is large. Mr.. Eger!er Is Il whole com-
mittee in himself.
The debris has been almost entirely ramov-
ed from the Island. There Is an enormous
lot yet lett on Bergar's lawn. There are
work OF removing it will be very hard and
Tho benefit performance OF Hamlet. by
Mr.. L'arkin and his company OF amateurs, at
the Opera House next Friday and Saturday,
creditshle to tbs performers, and profitable
10 the dood suffers. a
Mr.. Chas. 7. Brues, has practically allowed
bis business to run itself sincs the food, III
order that the good being done by the work
Of relief might not ceAse. He has worked
hard at the Central provision depot, and is
deserving Of unlimited praise and credit.
More than one hundred ladies of this place
arc actively engaged in making ladies' aud
children's clothing and upderclo,hiDg, as
we'll IS mems and boys clothing, cotton
quilts and other bed clothing 10 be- sent to
the auferer5 from the fl )od.-Ca Repu6hi.
can.
The work OF repairing the damage done 10
the P, w. & Ky. track by the flood has besn
carried on by q large force. Saturday, ar
engine managed to get over tina trsstlfng al
the passenger depot aud run into the freight
house. To-day traius will be running regu-
larly. sa
Mr.. Peter Giaen, Postmagter at Powhatan,
writes to the 1NTKLLaENCER: "Our town
suffered terribly by the flood. The water
Was six fee! In the highest bous 10. Many
are homeless, and would be suffering were It
not for our country friends, who have helped
nobIy."
The .Wellsburg Episcopal Church is 30
badly damaged that it is thought it will not
be cafe TO hold services In. The orgen Is
completely ruined; ns are also the organs in
the other churches. The fine library OF the
Presbyterian Sunday School was greatly in
iu1ed by water. Z,
Tho Marshell Herald says that the judges
and reporters gallery n1sted oil OF The fair
grounds. were caught at Moundsville by
George and Nose Price and safely landed
They also saved three Osio Riysr Railroad
cars, besides a large pile Of lumber belonging
10 J. w. Gallaher.
One OF the most novel contributions is that
raferred to In the following letter to Mayor
Miller from Prot. I. n. ssdler, OF the Waynes-
burg schools: " suggested 10 the pupils.of
our public schools that they donate five po-
tatoes each to the Wheeling sufferers. The
result was eleven barrels, which l ship to-day
marked 'Waynesburg Schools"
Yesterday the Western Union wires to
Marietta were gotten to work Tor the frst
time since the flood. Almost the first news
received after the wires we're working was
that the Iron City, the Pittsburgh, c~itizsns
aud press relief boat, had arrived there in
good shape, after having relieved consider.
able distress and suffering at points above.
A benefit ball will be given at Arion Hall
to:morrow evening by the young men Of
Wheeling for the purpose OF raising money
The whole proceeds arc to 60 to the sufferers.
The following gentlemen compose the com.
mittet: Ed King, Ed KOSHER. Henry Kress,
Leo Ouch. VIM. Craft, ALI Clator, John 2.
Ripley, Alex Jones. Music by Karmer's full
orchestra. md
The Losses by the flood at Wellsburg are
estimated at SIS. 900. Some of the heavieat
individual losers were: Riverside Glass
Works, $40, 900; Window Glass Works,
$4,000; J. L.. Curtis, merchandise, 50, 900; ..
George, paper mill, IS 0Oo; G. H. Bracken,
dry goods, 81 500; J. II. Rodgers, merchau.
disc, $4,000; Harvey Brothers, paper mill,
$4,000; Cooper & McClellsnd, drugs, $1,000.
The Riverside glass works, although badly
dansgsd, 10 not as bad a. at first reported.
The pots were full, OF gissl when the water
came up TO-. the fire, and steam formed so
rapidly, with very little chance to escape,
that the furnace expanded enough 10 burst
one OF the iron bands around 1t, but one OF
the bands Is stitl in position, and It Is not
thought that the iurr ace Is badly damaged,
The pots, all full Of elJss, hre oil conrse
ruined, They lost all their lime, soda, &C., the
mouids are all rusted, but the heaviest loss
is the time, right in their busiest sets IN. It
will be a month before they can run again.
UeRsbnry Herald.
GARD orTHAEKs. WA,
The relief committee desire to publicly e1-
press their thanks. to Mr.. Chaa. Shay for the
free use OF his theatre during the past week
for the benefit of the sufferers, and also Tor |
courteous treatment received ut his hands,
4gg5 F. RIE'rER,
J. W. GRubB, n
tSl, P.B. DoBblNs,
n. B; HoREAEiMxR.
Rneeling february 10
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