The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1888-07-26
WRECK AN RUIN.
WILD SCENES o TERROR.
Tho City of Wheeling ,e,wheimcd
by a Cloud-B,t.

The rain storm which burst ar ,bs CITY
OF Wheeling aud the surround, country at
six o'clock Wednesday evening IS the most
DISASTROUS ever known, far s,assing the
greai storm OF ten days ago. lone hour
aud ten minutes six inches OF wa fell. ac-
companie lby dashes of hail. L floods re+
suting swept down the narrow ,lleys Of
The runs aud small streams debousng from
he hills and empsyiny into til, Olkvith ir-
resistible force all the damage to ropcrty
and the loss of life are appalling.
In the Caliwell's run district, justu,sde
the city limits, half dozn dwellin, were
swept away and IL people were drvned,
the victims beng Thomas How!ey, wiiand
four children, and Mrs. Stenzyl, two-hil-
dren, two nieces, Misses Annie a11 lice
Waigard, OF Miltonsburg, Oio, a1d dhn
Holman, who atttmptel to rescue the youg
ladies'
At Bogg's Run ex-Sherifr Henry Keep
was browne on his way home, as was alsca
German family of five, whose names are ne
obtainable at present.
Along the valley OF Wheeling creek from
five TO Is miles out the loss Is reported ter
rible, but all communication is cut Off.
The United Pres report s,ys: About 10
o'clock, while number OF people werestand-
ing on one Of the bridges Of the Baltimore
aud Ohio spanning Wheeling crock, watch
Ing the swift flow Of the waters bearing
wrecked shanties and debris OF all kinds, tho
truc;ure suddenly gave way, precipitating
oil who were standing on it into the food.
The number Of people who were on the bridge
is not known, the estimates varying from 20
sto 30. Eight persons were rescued at dis
tance Of a mile from the point where the
bridge was located, and 1t Is feared that from
10 TO % persons have persisted.
At Caldweils run, in the lower end OF the
city, four dwellings were swept away by the
flood and eleven persons drowned. A young
man named Homan, the wife and four child
rem OF Thomas Howley, three members OF the
family Of John Stenz III. d,iryman, and two
visitors Mt his house, are among those believ-
al to be drowned, and it is feared there are
moro TO bs included in the number. Much
damage is reported from the Wheeling Creek
Coal Works, mady dwellings In the creek
bottom having been flooded from their foun-
d,tions, and only saved by colliding with the
boundary fenc,.
Myron w. Hubbard, ofthe firm OF Hubbard
& PAUL, wholesale grocers, is supposed to
have been drowned, as he was on the wreck
ed Baltimore and Ohio bridge when it fell.
No street cars are running on account OK
bridges in the city having gone out spanning
Caldwel's run.
The Valley Of Wheeling Creek Is full OF
ghastly sights. For miles the shores are dot
ted here and there with the bodies OF human
beings, horse', farm animals and household
pets, and the wreckage Of houses and OUT
buildings.
At Triadelphia the damage was especially
great. Search resulted in the discovery Of q
number OF bodies Of those who lived at Tria~
| dephia. Most Of them were found among
the drift which collected at Elm Grove, some
distanc, below.
William CASTOR, aged sixty years, q
wealthy and prominent man, who owned the
famous "Gaston Orchard" was drowned, as
was his wife.
The body OF Charles Caul Bell, aged
fifty, was found among some drift
wo,d Mrs. Jane Fay, wife Of
Moses Fay and her two daughters, Alice
and Belle, both Of whom were grown up, were
| found dead near Elm Grove. The bodies Of
two brothers named German, both young
men, were recovered in meinow, where
they had been hurled by the furious waters.
) All these people lived at Trisdephia At
noon the best estimate by conservative peo-
pie OF the number Of lives lost is twenty-five,
and the loss to property $4,000.
The names Of the persons drowned at Cald
wells Run are: Wife and four children of
Thomas Howly; Mrs. Stencil, widow, her
son Herman, aged 20, daughter, two nieces,
Anna and Alice Winglrd, Of Miltonsturg,
Ohio, who were visiting, and hirei girl,
name unknown john Holman while attempt
to rescue the Stencil family, was also drown,
ed As yet but two bodies havo been recov-
cred, those OF Mrs. Stencil and Alco Win.
gard.
pELuGE IN OHIO
st. Clairsvile, Ohio, aud vicinity were
visite by most terrific thunder storm, vio-
lent winds, aud a rainfall that eclipsed the
average waterspout. Grain fields were laid
waste, shocked wheat was swept away and
the growing corn Is not to he sen. The Bel
laire a. St. Clairsvile and the st. Cairsville
& Northern Railroads are almost entirely
washed out. The incoming train on the b.
g. o. was stranded at Echo, and the trainmen
and passengers as lest they could escaped
with their lives, the water, filled with drift,
running to the headlight of the engine Sew
eral narrow escapes are reported.