Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-03-16
WELLSBURG.
Evidences of the Flood Fast Dis
appearing.
S.,kne;s PreYaiIing-Gass Works to Start
Up Soon Preparing to Bore
for Gas.
Special 70 The ReqiSter.

WELLsBURG, w. Va, March l5.-The
streets were bad enough before the food,
but they are worse now. Council has con-
trac,ed with parties to remove the mud
from the streets. The crossings are almost
in passable.
Harvey's paper mill got started this week,
having been shut down stree the flood.
Mrs. John Patton, al elderly lady resid-
ing in Cross Creek district was buried in
B:ooke cemetery on Friday.
The gas company have succeeded in lay
ing q main on the F., w. Ky. trestle work
over Buffalo creek. The gas was turned on
on Thursday to blow the water out of the
mains, the service pipes having first been
shut off. 1t was with the greatest difficulty
that the company could prevent consumers
from
Tampering with the stOp.cocks
ard turning on tle gas before they we're
ready. Leaks have been found in gas pipes
III Il uumber of houses that were under the
rl"Cd. All consumers will have gas TO day.
The coal famine 10 about at an end The
warm weather and the gas will allow the
miners time TO get stock OF coal ahead.
The food marks are not disappearing
very fast ont doors as the weather is and
las Deen SuCn lDdl Out llLlI6 NOIh eau Dt
done. Indoors the work goes slowly as the
scarcity of fuel has retarded the drying OF
dwellings. Cleaning after the flood and
sIring house cleaning will all be performed
81 the same time in ma jOrity of cases.
Council has employed four special po-
ii,emen to look after the boys who disturb
The peace and quiet Of the town.
Much sickness exists in some portions OF
the town. Strange to say there is more
= l.. ~ Nnu oh
~ possible high water than in the h0oied
portion.
The Riverside Glass Works
will probably get everything in good shape
e make glass the coming week. After the
,.oud the furnace WAS dried out and new
pots put in, but unfortunately al the pots
urCke and the tire hsd to be drawn and
repairs made. We wish the company SIC.
c',s as their location here has added largely
10 the 5etterment OF the place.
The Pan Handle window glass works is
doing very well with their new furnace.
The derrick to ne used in boring for gas
for the Pan Handle Window Glass Works
Is completed.
There are now four wells being sunk for
=. : in and about WeilShurg. Work at the
Gss Company NO. well is progressing IA
vo'shly, being down 10 depth of nearly
200 feet. Mr.. Gibson has the contract for
Nll' RlnE tnsS well, burst anu N.Y. are
81 king the others.
The Jacobs Brothers have leased tract
Of and from Wa. Tucker, at the head Of
Walnut street, aud erected their brick
w,ks thereon. The location will put them
4. ond ordinary high water, from which
tity have suffered greatly during the last
t. or three years.
Real estate has increased greatly in value
dp cirg the past three years A hall lot on
c! aries street, with poor one story frame
hCuse thereon, which was sold at public
sale about two years sgo 70: $3.50, or there
"houts recently changed hands for about
$40
Qnite number of new houses are
USder Contract for the Coming Season
hnd a large number tn. t were commenced
II The fall aleapproaching completion.
John Lewis and Mrs. J. II. Raney will
CT CT handsome business houses on Water
street in place Of the old frame land marks
Which they recently occupied. Lewis
h, ne was so badly damaged by the food
that he concluded that the cheapest aud
biSt way out Of the difficulty would be to
lerr it down and rebuild. Mrs. Haney for
ID" present occupies the office of 6. w.
Caldwell, E,q. As soon as Mrs. Haney can
=, into her new house, Caldwell will tear
bis building down aud erect u new one.
few n ore freaks OF enterprise OF this sort
Oh Water street will add much to its ap-
pearance and rid il of q lot OF fire traps.
When winter finally takes its departure
he flood marks will disappear rapidly, but
II flood Of "a will be remembers as the
worst disaster that ever befell our town.