Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-02-17

,o.hsy portable properly which the current
csr,is6 nj. are ukarked with the names OF
a,eir omen, WHO have spent the past reg
-. ch.If n hand. meandering through
az mnd in search OF their missing prop
erty.
Meeting Governor Jackson . few days
since, he said: There IL one peculiarly
.bout this fiood, compared with the one
of last year, which think there has not
vet appeared in print 1t II this: when
the river reached the highest point u
fsst noors vster tran in 1888. This may
seem improbable IN view OF the large ex-
cess We had here in Wheeling and ct points
below, but II Ii nevertheless true
:. So
The food was great levelef. On several
occasions after the going down OF the waters,
Iobseryed fsstidious wives and cultivated
and accomplished daughters breaking
bread with rough laborers and ooiored
men and women, 40 though classes and
ranks in society had never existed. Such
things do honor to all concerned.
80
Furniture is coming to pieces in way
that is calculated to drive housewives TO
despair. Articles which always seemed to
be solid, substantial and durable have
fallen to pieces, revealing them to Dc the
yeriest shams Cabinet makers should
have recourse to something moro suostsn-
tial than glue when setting up their work.
Some of the small country towns over in
Belmont county did nobly in the way OF
raising supplies for the needy, Morris
town. Hendrysburg, St. Clsirsville, Cadi1,
Poverty Row, Fairview. Barnesvilie aud
other places responded promptly and
abun isntly to the cry for aid. May II Do
returned TO them q thousand fold.
One Of the most startling occurrences Of
that never.to be. forgotten Thursday night
was the roar and commotion caused BY .
large frame house striking the broken guy
ropes of the suspension bridge. People
who were on the bridge at the time thought
the entire structure Was going to pieces
and ran for their lives
A food accident as yet unchronicled vas
the unfortunate fall of Mrs. Hines, an
aged Island lady. While making prepara-
ton to escape from the residence OF her
daughter on the night OF the 7th, she lei!
over box Of coal and fractured one OF
her lower limbs. At her advanced age
over So-it is most serious misfortune
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The approach to eur city from the South,
by rail or river, vas never calculated to
psralyze the travelling stranger with Its
gorgeous beauty, aud ROW IL is hundred
fold more unaltractive than ever. Viewed
from the deck Of q passing steamer, the
Eighth ward is as rous a looking town as
one could find in months search.
Two ladies, who certainly deserve to have
their names enrolled high up In the temple
of fsme, are Miss Sadie Bates and Miss
Sue Marsh. These ladies procured skin
IN the Eighth ward and alone and unaided
penetrated TO many dangerous places and
relieved tie necessities OF a number OF
'amilies' All homo. to them
There was story industriously circulat.
ed by certain parties yesterday to the effect
that Jim Richardson had charged Mr.. Will
Beans IS for rescuing his wife aud child.
The story is false. Mr.. Richardson did dot
He is not that kind OF man.
Some Islanders who found other peoples
houses upon their lots have elephants on
their hands. One gentleman bought two
room and kitchen frame for 6ity dollars,
which was quite bargain, while another,
who had three room house on neigh
boris lot, asked him $500 for 1t.
guess the old stone bridge over the
creek at Main street will outlast the best OF
them. The water and drift did Ii no harm
whatever, and. full OF cracks and breaks a.
it is, it bids fair to see many more years OF
usefulness.
The mouth OF Boggs' Run Is q sorry
cooking spot There are several acres OF
drift in the bottoms east OF the Pittsburgh,
Wheeling and Kentucky track, including
two or three houses, and it will take long
time to clear up the ground.
20
Some OF the impromptu pumps rugged up
to remove the waller from the cellars were
daisies. One gentleman fitted a sucker to
an old spout and set 1t going with spring
pole, and it answered the purpose remark
ably we'll.
I,Wonder IL baby will remember this"
was the remark OF many q mother as her.
self and child were rescued from the sec.
ond story OF some lettering home and borne
to safer quarters.
The islands all along the river have
caught much drift, amongst which are o
number OF houses TO take the places OF the
ones which the islanders had lost by the
flood.
The current in the river when the water
was at its highest was very rapid. One
party made the run from Bellaire 10 Ma.
rietts, a distance OF 50 miles, In 8 hours, or
a. the rate Of about ~ miles per hour.
The flag OF distress which James fancy
flung 10 the breeze on Thursday morning,
when the river was at its highest, Was
unique, but it served lie purpose we'll.
80
Mstamoras was about the only town slonx
the river that escaped inundatioa. Hef
citizens worked energetically aiding their
suffering neighbors.
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CO.. Thos. O. Bfien estimates the loss In
Wheeling and vicinity at -, 900, 600.