Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-02-10

TO all sufferers By the food at greatly TO
duced rates from the regular rates.
Friday night the carriage shed Of Mr..
Zoeckler, of Fulton, caught fire from q can
of gasoline. The building was partially
consumed before the flames were extin-
guished.
Eighteen houses on the Island have been
swept away. This does not include the
number moved Of their foundation.
There will be no services in the First
Presbyterian church to-day, as the build
ing is in use as 0 relief station.
Daniel Diehrs frame house, on the cor
ner of Thirty eighth and Wood streets,
vas badly wrecked and furniture gone wife
and three children.
In addition to the damage to his house
and lot, and the loss of q stable, Squire
CaldN ell lost $500 in fine furniture.
The Belle Prince took of number OF
passengers from water-bound B & o. tr lins
yesterday, three miles bsck of Mounds
vile.
Mr.. W. J. W. Cowden ives in command
of the gondolier police on the Island, and
made most efficient and intelligent otfi
Ger.
The damage to the Samm House 10
building, out houses and contents of Office,
OlnlDg FOOD, pdriOTs duu kiVCueuS Will nut
fall short OF 5000.
Louis HeckeI, the Market street cutter,
places his loss on stock alone at 81, 900. OF
this 5000 alone represented an entire stock
OF toys ruined.
Boyd, Miller & Co, at a rough estimate,
place their loss in stock at about 5000.
VIM. Hess, Thirty ninth and McGolloch
street, house flooded aud furniture gone.
Mr.. o. G. Scofeld, of the Journal, lost a
portion OF his furniture and piano worth
s6CO.
Prof. Whitehill of the Linsly institute,
lost his library and and new piano. His
lass will be 81 500.
Mr. John Creighton has been at work
night and day ferrying passengers to and
from Centre Wheeling.
Capt. Bennett has been interchangeable in
bis efforts to save property from the depre'
dations OF prowliug thieves.
The Fourth Presbyterian Church has
also thrown open its doors, and will furnish
lodging for the sufferers.
The suspension bridge authorities are
very careful to allow no person to cross the
bridge who has no business there.
Some skiffmen who are utterly unworthy
Of praise take particular pains to hunt up
reporters lOI Iuc puI pOSc VI 6iNin6 hoASN ~
ports about their accomplishments.
Baer B os. by hard work managed to re-
move all perishable goods to upper stories
and high ground, and report only about
81 coo less in damage to building.
The population of this side of the river
has been slightly augmented within few
days. The entire Seventh ward is quar-
tered in the Second and Third wards.
n -, g., ~ he Noip ofr DIM
gisrs, while as vet unable to give an exact
account Of their losses, think they will lose
It least 81 percent OF their entire stock.
At BENJAMIN Fishers foundry the dam.
sge to building stock and machinery will
De upwards Of $1,000. All of the patterns
were destroyed, and their loss is included
in the total.
The large Horkheimer tannery on Boggs'
run broke from its fOundatio1s and is gone
With its contents Mr.. HIS los will foot
up 5000, rs in addition to the loss OF the
building it contained 5000 worth OF
aides.
The various Catholic societies With
charscteric promptness have offered the
Executive Committee the benefit OF their
eAsrlioLs and experience together with
the means at command to relieve the
general distress.
M,ssrs. Prayer Bros. have cleaned and
op, ned their job printing office, al 70
Fourteenth street and will be ready to-
morrow to go 10 business as usual. No
10, i can affect their enterprise and their
work will be as good as ever.
The loss of the pottery is confined to the
water around the machinery on the first
aovr. Just before the flood all STOCK and
movable machinery were transferred to
ThrQp thnnaQnH
will cover their entire loss.
All the members of the Cornet Social are
requested TO meet at Maennerchor Hall to
10y at o'clock for the purpose OF collect
ing contributions Of money for the suiter'
ers Of the flood.
Mr.. Cbas. Burdette Hart, the talented
6itor Of the lntelligencer, spent all day
Yesterday on the South Side assisting in
he distribution of food and clothing
lmorg the destitute.
A small boy who was fooling around the
Marker street. hay scales, fell III the water
yesterday afternoon, and would have gone
rtO the scale pit had he not seized onto q
10y and saved himself.
Abram Barron, OF the Eighth ward
placed his horse and COW in the front room
of bis horse where there was also va!ua.
Die piano. The animals were drowned and
the piano almost trampled to pieces.
Nessrs Frank Bsbbert, John Murphy
and a. J. Schultz rescued family from
drowning, the water in the second story
being up almost 10 their shoulders. One
Of the children has since died from ex-
poSure.
Yesterday Chief Dunning had the circuit
of The fire alarm broke so as to cut off the
Islsnd and by so doing make the fra alarm
in the city of some use, The wires on the
Island are down and canno. be replaced for
several days.
The Riverside mill company fear that
their blast furnace at Ben wood mill will
chill before the water recedes sufficient
distance to enable them to fire up. Could
it be got at Immediately the fur
nace could be saved
The towboat Daniel Kaine, with six
empty barges, came up yesterday morning
as far as West Wheeling, but was not per-
mitted to pass that point. She retired in
good order and is ashore about two miles
down the river.
Mrs. Dyce, a widow living on Wood
street, between Fortieth and Fortyfirst
streets, had her house and furniture
wrecked. She is destitute with three chil.
iren, and two cows, which were her only
support were drowned.
Frank Mccoy, of this city, passed Clar.
ington at o'clock yesterday afternoon, on
TWO logs lsshed together en- route to Sister.
lille IN join his wife. Mccoy started on
The irail croft at PoShatan point. The
distance from PoSh1tsn to ,steryille is 81
allies.
Captain VIM Prince crrt-inly deserves a
Sandstone donation from this city for the
noble work done by himself aud steamer
Belle Prince. His vessel has been kept
going steadily for the last four days, and
he he's net charged any person one cent.
The report that he charged David Bell $40
is false.
Messrs. James Darling aud Louis Bonen-
berger, Jr., worked zealously sll day yes
i,rday and last night carrying people to
and from their submerged houses for only
the compensation of gratitude OF the suffer
ers. They have been the hardest workers
III the South Side.
Mayor Miller has established a central
supply station at the corner Of Fourteenth
aud Main streets, and a room under Arion
Hall, corner OF Twentieth and Main streets.
All parties having bread or provisions of
Kind that they wish to donate they will
Greatly obIige them by leaving the same
1t either Of these stations.
Mrs. Mclaughlin, lady living on Wood
street, between Thirty-eighth and Thirty.