The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-02-13
The Terr0rs OF the Situation at
Cincinnati.
Houses l'oppling Over from their
Weight.
Grave Apprehensions of Further
disaster.
rARxERsRUxa AND VICINITY,

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PARRERsBURG AND VICINITY.
A Terrible Sccne Of DesolatIon-The
People in Want or Food.
Special Dspalch TO The Inieliyencer.
PARKERsBuRG, W. W., February 12.-
The terrible experience Of the past few
days is about over. The river reached 81
feet at its highest stage. 1t is now 40 feet
and falling fast. Hundreds Of homeless
arc Suffering from privatiou and exposure.
The citizens form one vaat relief organiza.
ton, feeding hundreds OF suffering out.
casts. Part Of tho city is yet under
water. No estimation OF the damage can
be made at present. The Ohio River Rail.
road suffered severely. The tracks are
ruined. Three passengers fell from the
trestlins into the river. The treatling was
all swept away. The Parkersburg mill
company lose, not lets than $4,000.
Neorly every merchant in the city
los. more or less Numbers OF our
large business buildings crumbled 10 the
ground and others are condemned as ex-
ceedingly dangerous The B. & 0. freight
depot is wrecked. About two hundred
houses have been swept away, many OF
them with the household goods. The Lit
tie kauawha Valley suffered scvere loss
in buildings, stock, grain, fences, &c.
TERRIBLE WRECK AND SUFFERING AT
MARIETTA.
II the situation is bad here it is desperate
at Marietta. The entire portion OF the
town known as Texas is gone. Every
church in Marietta is wrecked but two.
Many merchants lost all they had. The
grain elevators bursted. The Phnuix
mill is badly damaged. The railroad and
county bridges are both carried away.
Seventeen pianos in one building are
ruined. Two thousand people arc homeless,
suffering for bread. NJ relief can reach
them but by river. A boat load was sent
from this point yesterday. The destruction
Of real and personal property is beyond
description.
BELpRE, HARMAI AND WILLIAMSBURG.
Harmar, Ohio, and Williamstown, ".
Va, were Quilted by the swift currents
passing through their centre. Nearly every
house is either swept away or displaced.
The people are huddled together in i'm.
provised shelters on the hill sides. Deli
cate women aud sick children are no
better provided for than tbs others.
Bslpre, Ohio, presents the widest scene OF
ruin and desola;ion. a whole section OF
this town has been carried away. The
people arc massed in two churches out OF
the n,od. The stores, flour and Touring
mills, pump factory and about fifty dwell
lings are swept away and displaced. The
large hearted farmtr. Of the vicinity are
feeding the unfortunate. Bslpre, Belleville
and Portland, O., are in desolate condition,
having been entirely submerged. Many
houses were carried away and others
moved from ther original position. This
portion Of the Ohio Valley presents pic
ture Of ruin and desolation unparalleled in
its history. From hill to hill along its
length stretches dreary expanse Of desc.
lation that is pitiful in the extreme.
Men who were wealthy few days since
are now penniless. Mothers who gathered
children around happy tiresides are now
exposed with loved ones upon the hill.
sides, to chilling blasts No pen can de.
scribe the m's,ry, wretchednesp, woe and
want Of this once beautiful section.