The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-07-21
TWENTY-FIVE DROWNED
TERRIBLE LOSS OF LIFE NEAH
WHEELING.
4 stone Bridge swept Awav-Houses
Submerged and Whole Families swept
known-The Missing.

WHEELING, W. Va, July 20-A terri
ble storm that had been threatening the
city all the afternoon swept over here
last night A, q o'clock ii burst, and for
two hours rain fell as it never fell before
in Wheeling. Ii seemed as though a
wsterspout had been turned loose upon
the city, and streets were turned in ten
minutes time into swift-running torrents,
which no man could breast in safety AS
soon rs the size of the storm and its ca
pacity for mischief was fully realized In
the city, there was the greatest anxiety
as to the fate of the people living in the
various narrow valleys throughout the
interior of the county and especially
along the Valley Of Caldwell's and Boggs'
runs, two small streams which enter the
city from Narrow Valley.
Both these streams have large popu-
lation crowded along their banks. Hardly
had the rain ceased at : o'clock before
the waters of Cold Wells Run began TO
rise with fearful rapiGity. At o'clock
it was a babbling brook, which child
could ford at any point; at 7 ii was a
raging torrent, 20 feet deep and 200 fee,
wide, and rs it entered the city limits,
swept through hundred houses with
| irresistible fury Half dozen families
were carried away. among them Thomas
| iIawley and Mrs. Herman Stensel
There were in the Hawley residence
Mrs. Hawley and her four children
three boys and one girl All were swept
away with the house and were drowned.
At the Stcnsel home there were more
Mr.. Stensel, the mother, a son, a daugh.
;er, and two nieces the Misses Alice and
Annie Wingard of Milt0nsburg, Ohio,
vino were visiting at The home All
these were likewise lost, as we'll as John
| iiOman, a young man who was opposite
the house on horseback at the time, and
went TO the assistance of the family
This makes eleven lives lost in this
spot alone.
BRIDGE SWEPT AWAY.
| In the city about O'Clock large crowd
gathered on the Marketstreet stone
bridge and on the wooden b. 4 o. rail-
road bridge near by to watch the seething
food in the creek At two minutes of .
o'clock the middle of the pier Of the rail.
road bridge was carried away, but the
crowd seemed to think there was no dan
ger, and continued to crowd the bridge
At $3.50 the bridge suddenly sank into the
creek, taking about fifteen people with it.
9am-it is still impossible to give the
exact number Of lives lost in the bridge
| disaster 1t is known that thirty or forty
were on the structure when il went down.
Only eight have been seen since. They
1 sob. oil n hN tn in
river Among the latter was Mr.. Myron
| Hubbard, who says that more than thirty
went down. Their names are unknown.
| The crowd was on the bridge watching
| the Hood below, when suddenly the
woodenHupportrs gave way and they were
prccipaed into the surging water. They
had been repeatedly warned of the dan
ger but laughed al Tire fears of those who
warned them.
\ man named keltZ was washed away
at Boggs' Run, and he and his horse
drowned. Four lives ere lost at Elm
Grove, five miles east The names of the
lost, as far as known, are as follows:
| Herman c. Stensel, Mrs. Stensel,
mother OF the former. two children, and
- kelt2, a farmer
The following is a list of those who
have been rescued from the bridge:
W. :. Mcdonald, Charles Pierce, l. e..
Dimon, W. 4. Wilson, Myron Hubbard,
Eddie Ball, + + Stein, Al klnger, Mr..
/ Madill, George Paul, and An unknown
| man
! The names of the persons drowned AT
/ CaldwelPs Run are as follows:
Wife and four children of Thomas
Hawlty, consisting OF three boys and a
Herman, aged 90; daughter, two nieces
Anna and Alice Wingard OF Miltonsburg
Ohio, who were visiting, and hired
girl, unknown. John Holman, while at.
tempting TO rescue the Stensel family
was also drowned. As yet but two
bodies have been recoyered-that of Mrs
Stensel and Alice Wingard.
This morning reports from Elm Grove
and Triadelphia, about five and eight
miles east on the Pittsburg Il Wheel
ing Division Of the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad show that great damage tC
property and at least eight lives wert
lost, namely Jane Fay. wife of Moses
Fay, and two daughters, Alice and Belle
young IdIit1 VI liIduCIpiId, Wuosc DouIcs
were recovered in the drift Just below
the village William CASTOR and wife
old and vel known people
Mrs Gaston's body was recovered thi:
morning, ,ntangled with drift, in a wire
fence at Elm Grove Caull Bell of Tria
delphia, father of Police Officer Bell o.
this city, WAS also drowned and his body
recovered this morning Two younl
men named Bowman, living near Valley
Grove, were drowned and their bodies
recovered this morning.
Many horses and cattle and sheep were
carried away, aud carcasses are strewr
along the creek bank at every point.
1t is estimated that there are abou
twenty five lives lost in this vicinity ss
the result OF the flood.
| Protected Wool Does Not Protect Hall &CO
| CHICAGO. July 20-Thomas w. Hal
SlCo., ~ Dearborn avenue, wool dealers
made a voluntary assignment yesterday
to John Kinsey. The failure created
much excitement in wool circles, as II
WAS entirely upeXpected. the firm being