The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-02-08
THE INrELl.lGENCER's FIN.
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.. Field,

onuer six Feet OF WNter, but Still III the
,uaa Field.
The lNrELLloENcgR has been particularly
unfortunate, and probably there never was
m issue Of daily paper goItcn out under
Rs iuany Encouraging circumstances as sur.
rounded the force last night. Yesterday
mornings paper Was Issued through tho
kindness Of Mr.. Louis Co!mar, jr., pro.
prietot Of the De,asche Zei,lmg. The forms
were set up in the 1STELL,GgScEg Compos.
ing rooms, and taken ont OF the building
iu delivery wagon. Alter the paper went
to press the problem OF getting tho en-.
ployes out Of the building was to be solved.
The rather difficult len. was safely accom-.
plished, none OF the forca getting into the
water, which was then about three feet
deep.
The plan adopted was an ingenious, but
rather risky one. The wagon vas placed
under a window, and q stop ladder, rested
upon the shouldes OF two a!uydy men in
the wagon, and reaching within about q
foot OF the second etory window, was then
used for the descent, aud by it the entire
force safely reached the wagon, and the
food IVES forded TO Market street.
THE SITUATION GROWS w0RsE.
BY noon yesterday the only means OF &C.
cess to the building wez via the bindery, q
narrow skif being rowed into the stairway.
This served all day, small john boat be.
Ing chartered for the purpogs. The wafer
was six feet deep on The Grst floor last
night. and to add 10 the embarrassment Of
the situation, the gas failed last evening,
and the compositoIs had 10 set type by
gasoline light, while the editorial force, less
fortunate, could find nothing better than
candles. The scene in the Office was a
Eovel one.
Worse even than this, the water works
were also stopped by tho rising flood, and
the Deutche Zeitung press had to be aban.
doned, it being Impossible to procure water
to make steam. At this critical June.
ture the Evening Journal people came 10
the relief, and kindly placed their press g.
had sufficient water for their boilers, owing
to the large amountin the thirty-inch main
on Market street. This offer was accepted,
and the INTELLIGEScER comes ont this
morning by the kindness oi its afternoon
nciehbor.
The News Letter and Leader have also
shown themselves neighborIy, and have
generously made offers OF assistance.
AS the night wore on the water backed
up in the alley in the rear OF the Register,
and lears were entertained lest that paper
should have to seek press facilities else.
where. Fortunately those fears were mol
realized. 81
oTHER DISADVANTAGES.
The task Of gathering news was rendered
an herculean one by thu situation, the
only means OF ingrss and egresa for the
reporters being by The john boat from
Market street. ALI tclegraphic reports had
to be delivered in the same slow manner.
To increase tho embarrassment Of the news
corps, the telephone in the third etory be.
came useless in tho evening, the waters
having submerged the battery OF the con-
Meeting instrument on the first floor. All
these drawbacks, with the entire absence
OF mail communication with the world at
large, and the fact that many points in the
near vicinity we're inaccessible by tele.
phone or telegraph, rendered the task OF
collecting news anything but pleasant
or easy one.
The m5st dishcartening feature OF the
whole situation was that at a late hour last
night the water In the building was slowly
but steadily rising, and there was prospect
Of i.B cutting of access 10 the office even by
boat.