The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-02-12
SIXTH WAR; hUFfERING.
Want OF Clothing. shuex nuu Bc.idiuK-
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FGw Specimen Cases.
In tho Sixth ward the committee and Its
assistants are still hard at work trying to
accomplish the impossible task OF giving
prompt relief to tho sufferers and to each
family according 10 its needs. There were
steady demands for food, bedding and
clothing, oil Of which were in small supply.
More than hall the sufferers are in need ci
shoes. A committee Of the Knights OF ST..
George worked through the ward looking
up Gases to be reported to the ward com.
uliileeman at the school house. The lis,
Of this committee was not obtained. Some
other gentlemen made tour OF the worst
part of the ward to tiad the most needy
cases, and Mr.. Joseph Ensheimer did
some good work In the same direction.
A representative OF the 1NrELLiGEScER
accompanied one Of these parties, unu IL
able to cay that the half has no. been told
On Twea;y.seventh street, between Main
and Market, frame houses and parts OF
houses, mud aud miscellaneous DRIFT are
piled up in hopeless confusion. Bedding
and household utensils OF all descriptions
are scattered about. TAIN .l'i
DROWNED OUT. '''
On the south side OF this eQuare is Lees
Row, six two's!o.y houses, into which the
water poured up TO within three inches Of
the ceiling in the second story. They are
all working people here, living comfortably
on small earnings until the flood overlook
them. They saved nothing but the cloth
ing they had op, and some Of that is not
dry yet. There ia also some wet bedding,
but that can hardly be eaid to have been
saved, for it is useless. In one OF these
houses lives Mrs. Trayis, widow with
three children, who has been sheltered by
q relative. Mrs. Travis was Ia her wrecked
home yesterday, cleaning it out and trying
10 make it once more habisable. Next
door ara the O'ksei.'s, four in the
family, the husband being a
coal digger. Joyce, another coal
digger is in the row. He was sitting com.
iortably by the fire, iu tho school house,
soliciting clothing for himself and whiting
away the tins readirga newspaper white
bis vile was ia the wet house working
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husband, vile aud five children, are desti.
tute OF everything. They are next 10 The
Joycea. N$F. White, vile and three small
children, are in the next house. White
works At the nail plate rolls in the River.
side mill aud is said to be IN industrious
man. He and his wife were busy cleaning
their house. They have found shelter in
Il comfortable heme, but will need bed
clothes before they can sleep in their own
house. The name OF the sixth family in
this row was not learned. They all haye
coal, aud have built hres, though the eel.
lars are still filled with water.
MORE WIDOWS
Back OF Lees Row sands VIA. is lef; Of
the stone fcundalion1 of tha Widoy Car
rolls house. Mrs. Carroll haa earned her
living by working on B. & O. cars. She
owned her little house and had worked
hard for home. The ground on which
the house stood was given to her. She is,
to this exsent, property owner, but she is
destitute, and people in the ward ssy that
hers is Il most pitiable case. Mrs. Mary
Davis is another widow. living in the back
part of a house on Main street, below
Twenty fifth. She has five children, and
though her honse was flooded high ZIP in
the second story, and is scene Of
utter desoiation within, she asked only
for food for the boys who we're at
work in the house, explaining that she WAS
being provided for elsewhere. Inthe front
Of this house is the Singer ianily, with
several small children badly in need OF
clothing. Singer wor Ks in the Belmont
mill. Charles Rice lives at 2Gl2 Main
street. He is boiler in tho Belmont
mill. At the time OF the Chicago FIRE he
gave q days work to the sufferers. Wages
we've then high, and the men we're allowed
to make all they could that day. Rice
turned IN $ll ss the result OF his days
work. His wife pointed 10 pile Of bed
clothing and said it was enough for q lie.
time, but was soaked through aud through.
FOUR THOUSAND DEPENDENTS.
Theae are few specimen cases from the
reporters note book. The whole neighbor,
hood is suffering, but some Of tho people
aay they can get along without help They
are people who live by days wages, and
they canght the full forca Of the h1od.
They ere all anxious to get back into their
houses, wre,ched as they are, and hundreds
OF women and children slept last night In
houses that are not tit for pig styes. They
have the four walla, a roof, fire, and that
is al. Mr. Eberling, the ward committee
man estimatesthat not Lees than 900 people
ere dependent 10 the Sixth ward. lie
says he can point to 700 voters alone,
nearly all with large families, averaging
about five TO the family, who are utterly
destitute. The committee will continue
its efforts to feed and clothe the uniortu-
aetep, but il will BE- seen that this cannot
be accomplished in dny nor yet in q
week. 1t is hardly possible to escape
fever plague in ths flooded neighborhood.
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