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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-07-21
TILE nEMPFIELD RlILROAD,

Tho Road Literally wiped out of Existence
for NIIles-ThrIilIng Experience of u Train
full of PeOpls-A Miraculous Escape.
The Incredible work OF tho Waters.
The damage done to the Wheeling &
Pittsburgh division of the Baltimore 4
Ohio road cannot be pictured so as TO
convey anything like an adequate i'm
preston oft. From Elm Grove to West
Alexander, n distance OF eleven miles,
there is not a bridge left. Not only are
all the bridges washed away, but in the
majority of cases the abutments are
nearly all gone too. At two or three
places there is not sign left to show
where the abutments stood, and great
holes forty feet wide have been washed
in the banks where the abutments had
been. Sections OF track an eighth OF a
mile long were lifted bodily from the
road bed and tloated off, iron and ties
held together by the spikes, and twisted
into fantastic loops or wrapped about
trees rs il the heavy rails were ropes
Most OF the track for the eleven miles is
off OF its bed, much Of it in condition
which renders it unfit for use again,
The road bed is badly washed at every
point. Great gullies twenty feet deep
and thirty wide were scooped out by the
raging flood ut short intervals on high
banks that have stood the storms fol
years. There are stretches OF miles
where only occasional signs remain that
there ever was railroad there.
DAMAGE IN DETAIL.
The first damage to the B. & O
track east OF the city was at the Elm
Grove bridge, just below Chambers coal
works. Here the water swept around
with irresistible force, lifting the track
from its bed, and setting 1t down in the
open ground adjoining, carrying muef
OF the bed with it. About 100 feet o
the track was moved here.
The B. & o. bridge Just east OF the
bridge was carried around with the
stream for fully an eighth OF a mile, anC
left heap OF worthless rubbish. The
cut lust west OF this was half filed with
logs, gas pipes and other debris. Beyond
| the Destroyer DTluse lHe tIuCk ii IllteC
of the road, some Of it set on edge, somt
right side up and some upside down
Hundreds OF the ties have disappeared
entirely and the rails are so twisted us Il
be worth nothing except as old iron
The road bed will have to be rebuilt.
The bridge at the west end OF Triadel
phia is entirely gone, abutments and all
and the track is gone for 500 feet at boil
ends. The bed here is mere rount
topped ridge OF earth.
At the Thornburg place, a half mil
east Of Triadelphia, the railroad bridg
has been washed away as cleanly as II n
bridge had ever been there. Not onl
this, but the creek has cut out for itsel
new channel east OF where the eas
abutment was. To bridge the strear
now will cost half as much more as di
the former bridge. The stones OF th
abutment were carried down the ragin
stream like so many shingles, and heape
in great piles.
Beyond this, as far as West Ales
ander, all the bridges are destroyed
Some Of them have the tracks and til
still hanging from abutment to abu
[C0ntinued on Fourth PG9e.l
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-07-21
LABELS JUMP.
Witness AsainS: Opium smugGlers Escnpes
from Custody.

Witness AEnlns: Opium SmugSlerH Escapes
from Custody.
PoRT HuRoS, MIcH., July 20.-Fred
and Charles Saunders, who we're arrested
June 0 for smuggling opium, had their
examination here yesterday. Charles
Label, Of Indianapolis, was brought here
to testify in the case. 1t was understood
that he turned States evidence and testi-
fed that several piano boxes Of opium
had been shipped to him at Fort Wayne
and indianapolis and re-shippcd by him
to San Francisco. The Saunders
brothers were held for trial, and bail
fixed at 81, 900. District Attorney Black
and Deputy United States Marshal Stein
left for Detroit last night with Label.
They had him handCutFGd and intended
to hold him for the trial. When the
train was four miles west OF this city,
Label jumped up, run to the door OF the
coach and made his escape. The train
was stopped, but too late to be OF any
service, as there was buggy standing
near by, into which he jumped and
drove awayat n rapid speed. He drove
direct TO Saunders, three miles below
here, on the bank of st. Clair river,
where boat was waiting for him. He
is now in Canada and out Of reach OF fthe
United States authorities. He was the
only witness against the Saunders
brothers. 1t will be hard matter to
convict them,
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-07-21
WHERE THE STORM WAS

And Where Ruin aud DoSOlntlOn Now
Relgus Supreme - TriRdeiphin'S Awful
Fnte-Sad Sights ut Elm Grove and De-
tween tho Two Stricken VillaGes-The
Homeless aud the Dsad.
Yesterday morning gtworepresentatives
OF the INTELLIGRNCER drove out the Ma
tional road as far us driving was practi-
cable. Nothing but ocular demOnstra-
ton can convey an idea OF the misery
and desolation to DO seen along that
drive. 1t was one succession OF scenes
of destruction. Even within the city
| limits the earth did not escape the scOurge
of the torrents. On McColloCh street
the road is badly washed, and the vine
Yards around the hill show great gullies
from ten to twenty feet deep. On the
west side OF the Peninsula the swollen
creek washed the gardens aud fields
badly, but on the north side, the fields
where corn was growing lux"riantly
were first swept clean as floor and then
piled up with logs and stones.
In Fulton earth and stones were piled
several feet deep in the principal streets.
At the Toll gate several men worked all
day shoveling out the stuff piled up
without making much impression. In
front of the Thompson place another
similar fill was seen.-All along great
holes and gulics were washed in the hill
side. and the roads and fields below
filled up with the earth and rock.
At Leatherwood the first grave disas-
ter was encountered.
TIE RAILROAD DESTROYED.
Here, as noted yesterday, the Elm
Grove railroad bridge over Woods run
WINS washed from its foundation and
twisted out of shape before being sci
down near by, and q long sec
Ition OF railroad was lifted up bodil!
and carried across the intervening
space and across the pike, and lodgec
against the telegraph poles and the fence
on the south side OF the road. A mouse
was twisted from its foundation ant
others damaged. A stable was swep
down the valley and lodged near the
bridge.
J + The force Of the currentas the swolleI
stream swept across this valley wa
: Iterriiic. Frank Walters lost . good dea
OF fine corn, and the field is buried be
meath logs and stones. The water wa
, several feet deep on the Steenrod bridge
J The Elm Grove motor and car stand
lust beyond the Woods run gap, pre-
Z; vented from running east by bad washe
on the track.
o 1t will only be a few days till train
Q can run on both sides OF the gap. A mo
: tor was started out as far us Stackyart
J, hollow at | o'clock yesterday AFTERNOON
c There the passengers were taken in
q large wagon to their destination. BC
d fore that the wagon was run by the con
&c pany from the city station to the Parl
The injury will be repaired rs early d
enterprise makes possible.
J. At Seibert's and the coal chute in tn
, rear large piles Of debris, among it hug
i logs and rocks, were left.
1t Mr.. ]. G. Brady's back yard was ais
j. made a dumping ground for the storm
l. All along there the pike showed Il
If traces OF having been temporarily a ra
ing river. From here to Elm Grove u
X scenes were the same over and over Il
10 it became monotonous. Runs had was
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-07-21
SWELLING PROJECTIONS COLUMN.


Prominent Manufacturers of NCwburS who
Abandon Cleveland.
NEwBURu, n. Y, July 2O.-JoSeph
Martin is 4 wel.known manufacturer of
shoes in this city. He has always been
an ardent Democrat and four years ago
voted and worked for the election OF
Cleveland. Mr.. Martin said to-day:
Though my predictions are Demo.
cratic, yet can not, nor will not, 90
any party's measure blind. The Demo-
cratic party must shoulder the Free
Trade Issue and nil its attendant ills
and odiums. They have made a grand
mistake, but it is too late to rec
tify it. The fact OF their denying any
Free Trade intentions will deceive only
the most simple minded. want no
better authority than Mr.. Mills and his
bill. He claims for his constituents the
right to take their product into any mar
ket in the world and sell it for the high
est price they can get for it, and buy the
manufactured article in the cheapest
market and bring il back with them. II
that is not Free Trade then | fail to un-
derstand it. consider it impossible
for Cleveland to carry the State OF New
York, or any other manufacturing State,
II the workingmcn properly understand
the question Of Free Trade VS.. Protec-
tion."
"Do you think there arc many Dlmo.
Gratis in this city who hold the same
opinion MS yourself regarding the Free
Trade issue?" al am personally ac-
qainted with from twenty-five to thirty
Democrats in this city who, like myself,
would prefer voting the Democratic
ticket, but will not vote for Cleveland y
replied Mr.. Martin. II feel confident
that there are over 100 in the CITY,"
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-07-21
poUDLE.uEADED FREAKS OUTDONE.
A Colt That is Combination of Horse
Cont and Donkey.

n Colt That IL combination OF horse'
Cont and Donkey.
GEORGETOWN, KY, July 20.-About
four weeks since mare owned by Col,
r. H. Hicks, residing in Woodford
county, gave birth to horse colt which
has three separate heads and necks
grown side by side. The middle head oi
this phenomenon is that Of fully de-
veloped, very young colt; the one upon
its left is perfectly formed goats head,
and the third, or the head upon the
right side, is that OF donkey. 1t can
feed with either one or with all OF its
mouths at the same time. When either
OF the heads desires to test its vocal
powers the other two invariably join in,
causing the other animals within hear.
ing distance to hee upon its approach.
A veterinary surgeon reports that its in.
ternal organization sthe same as that Of
any other colt, having but one stomach
and one pair OF lungs, but that the
trach@ and Gsophagus trifurgate the
tubes leading to each throat.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-07-21
RA1TLE WlTH A REPrILE.
Attacked bya Big !Blneksnnke in the City
of Cincinnati.

Attacked byn Big GBlhckSnhke IN tho CITY
of Cincinnati.
CXCINNATr, July 2O.-Itis rarely that
q prisoner is confined at Fulton Station,
and it has long been current joke in
police circles that the turkeys princi.
pal duty is to keep down thegrass which
grows in the cell. Last night about 8
O'clock Lieutenant BEangan was sitting
in the station house, wondering il the
sneak thieves were getting in their work
in his bailiwick. Happening to turn
around suddenly he was startled to see
a big blacksnake crawling along the
floor toward him. He sprang from his
seat and ran and seized club. The
snake showed fight, and calling Turnkey
Miske, the Lieutenant opened the fray.
The battle lasted for several minutes.
The Lieutenant finally managed to get
in stunning blow ON the reptiles head
and stretched it out on the floor. Lieu
tenant Brangan is not drinking man,
and, moreover, has the remains OF the
snake on exhibition as proof OF the
story,
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-07-21
PLlM.PLAMMING THE VILLAGERS.
A smooth Gentleman, Who Has Been Sue.
csssfuI.

FrSDLAY, O., July 95.-Wednesday
afternoon a well.dressed iman drove into
McComb, u village nine miles from this
city, and, after registering at the Ameri-
can House, paid every business cstab-
lishment in the town a visit, and upon
each successfully worked the change
racket, and then left, going to Dewey
vile, where he was working the same
scheme this morning when the Marshal
OF Hoytsville arrived and arrested him
on the charge OF having swindled, in
the same way, the business men OF that
place. He was taken to the village for
trial. He must have reaped rich har-
vest from the country merchants, for he
had over $1,000 on his person when ar
rested, and is u smooth article all round.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-07-21
River and IIarbor Dlll Agreed on.

WAsHINGToN, D. G., July 20.-As
agreed on the River and Harbor bill
aggregates 81, 2,977,llO. The Senate re.
ceded from the amendments striking
out the appropriation for the purchase
OF the lock and dam on the Mononga.
hela river. The Senate amendment fol
the purchase Of the improvement known
MS the Green and Barren River Improve
met was agreed to.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-07-21

FoRT WAYNE, IND, July 2O.-Atnoon
yesterday Miss Ella Bressler committed
suicide by taking morphine. While
every effort was being made to revive
her she awoke long enough to say "mor.
phine," and that she was tired Of life
and did not want to endure any more
trouble. She was "a years OF age.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-07-21
RnnY WEIGnTPn AND SUNK
After Being Perforated by Rifle Bal
Investigating Florida Tragedy.

Investigating F1oridn Tragedy.
LLOYD, FLA, July 9o.-Moses Davis, a
colored man, was found lying dead in a
pond FIVE miles north of Miceosukie
Lake yesterday evening. Investigation
proved that he had been shot through
by rife ball and tied head and foot to
an iron axle and sunk near the middle
Of the pond. The cord that held the
head gave way and left the body stand.
ing. Suspicion rests on four colored
people. Late this evening one Of them
made q statement duplicating Mr.. Fisher
a respectable young white man. All
have been lodged in Jail, and a strict in
! vestigaton is now being held.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-07-21
Denied TINT Chlpl,onn t,orto.,,,,

=, CHICAGO, July 20. Chleboun and
Chapek q furnished the required bonds of
s. 600 each last evening, and have been
r. Ie'easea' as.N Hronek, the aFch-eonspirator,
Is SUI confined. Inspector Bonfeli
says tue ease Is complete with the three
arrests already made. The Inspector
sion, 's''u' % So"'ea'
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-07-21

WASHINGTON, D. c., July 2O.-To-day
in Executive session, the Senate con-
firmed the nomination OF Melville w.
Fuller to be Chief Justice OF the United
States. The vote stood iorty.one to
twenty.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-07-21
GREAT GOLD DISCOVERY.

Excitement In Michigan Over the Richest
Find Ever Made.
Special DispGtct to ne IaseIigeaor.
IsHrEMrSo, MIcn,, July 9O.-The rich
est gold discovery ever made outside of
the COmstock lode was made here in
the Lake Superior Iron Companys gold
shaft to-day. Four hundred pounds of
ore, worth sixty thousand dollars per
toni was raised at one blast. There is
great excitement.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-07-21

DREP RIVER, MIcH., July 2O.-Heavy
forest fires are raging over all WrenaC
county, and all the way between this
place and GladeHin.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-07-21

STILL WORSE,
THE LATER REPORTS SHOW
THE Ruin and DeSOlatiOn OF the
Fearful Flood.
uolr of TriadeIphia Is Swept
Bodily Away
AulI u Scething ! River POurs
Over Its Site.
Scenes Bcggar Description East
OF IOWn.
FOURTEEN LIVES LOST
And the Fatalities May Increase
to Il Score.
The Worst Wreck at Triadelphla
and Beyond.
A Thrilling Escape by u B. q U.
Passenger Train.
A WOman'S Awful Ride and
Miraculous Rescue.
ESTIMATES OF SOME LOooEo
And Vivid Pictures of the Sad
and Awful Sights.
Families Homeless and Without
n Bite to Eat.
Tales, Seemingly Incredible,
Which Leave Much to Tell.
How the Torrents Came Out OF
the Angry Skies.
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ed out their beds deep and wide to the
bed rock. At the Carter valley huge
stones were left in the hollow by the
hundreds Of tons.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-07-21

Captain William A. McCoy's double
two-story frame building had the front
swept out OF it and sank several inches.
On the opposite side OF the road, next
the creek, H. @. Hunters cottage, Tay-
lor Foreman's cottage, Robert ARM
strong's large frame house and stable,
the six-roomed school house, house
belonging to A. W. Kelly, and in which
Thomas Thornburg, painter employed
at ]. A. Holiday Il Sons, in this city,
lived, Prof. ]. c. Frazier's residence,
Gilbert Crafts house, Fred Bade's tene-
ment house, ]. W. Whissen's house,
were all swept away. Gratis crashed
against some trees and went to pieces
The Bade house was lifted clear across
the railroad track. On the other side Of
the pike the water was four feet deep in
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-12-12
Do You Dream

YOUNG MAN! Are you suffering from any of
the errors or indiscretions of youth, causing
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Have you contracted any Private Disease
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Many cases can be cured in twenty-four hours
If taken in time.
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Are you troubled with Strictuer, or any other
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CONSULTATION FREE.
Drs. D. e. B. are firm of physicians, one
specialist of which has charge of each depa't T.
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Hours: 10 A. M. to P. M, and Z to Pm.
DRS. ID. Il B.
Phillips Block, N. Spring ST.. Los
Angeles, Cal.
Ladies Parlors, Nos 81 and SO; Gentlemen's
Parlors, Nos. 80 and 40.
E-StOp the elevator at the First Office floor.
mis- tt
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-12-12
TWO CENTS
All a Burglar Obsained for Rts
work.

All a Burglar obtained for Rts
work.
The harvest for the festive burglar
seems to be at hand, and these individu-
ais are commencing to make things lively
for the store and housekeepers. 1t will
be remembered that year ago this time
burglaries Of stores were quite frequent
and it seems that professional gang are
at work here now, to reap the benefit of
the stocks of Christmas goods. They
tried to "crack" safe on Sunday night
at the junction of Main and San Fer
nando streets, and on Monday night or
Tuesday morning they broke into Mr..
s. A. Widney's store on Main street, be-
tween First and Court streets. This
store was burglarized year ago and the
thieves got safely away with $40O worth
of cutlery. Six weeks ago burglars again
broke into the store, but the holiday
stock was not in and the thieves only
secured about $50 worth of goods. Since
that time Mr.. Widney has purchased a
jewelers. safe, wherein he places, every
night, all of his cutlery and such other
small goods as are attractive to burglars
OA Ahou cuoy hOIuluS ldst nT. w luuey
noticed that some one had been pros
pecting in the yard back of
his store, and had tried to
force in the door. He wrote
note to Chief Benedict, telling him that
the burglars we're around, and on Friday
an officer was shown about the premises.
Mr.. Widney told him that the gas would
be left burning in the store 30 that an in
truder could easily be seen in any part of
the store. Yesterday morning on enter
ing the store he found that the burglar
had been in the store, ransacked all the
showcases, torn off the money drawer
and smoked cigarette, and with the gas
burning. The back door had been pried
open, and brace, which eight years ago
sent man to States prison, was split in
twain. 1t was while try ing to braek this
brace that a burglar was caught, and the
court afterwards sentenced him to States
prison. Mr.. Widney thinks that in or
der to have gone through the showcases
the burglars mus have been in the store
fully three-quarre of an hour, during
which no policeman could have passed
the store, or the burglars would have
been seen. The only thing the burglars
took, so far as known, were two copper
cents which were in the money-draWer.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-12-12
STREET WORK.
Baldwin,s Annual
Report.

superintendent BaldWIn,s Annual
| Report.
| Street Superintendent J. M. Baldwin
has fled with the Clerk of the Council
his annual report, which shows the
amount of work transacted by his office
during the year. The tables accompany
ing the report show that since April 1st
Al ,672 feet of streets have been graded,
graveled and curbed, aud that there are
now 39,976 feet in course of improve.
ment. The cost of the finished sire cts
was $115 ,S22.7S, and that of the streets
on which work is being done now ranges
from 81 8S per foot to $3.50. The streets
being paved at the present time are
Sixth between Main and Pearl. Fifth be-
tween Main and Hill, Fourth between
Main and Hill, Third between Main and
Hill, Second between Fort and Los An
geles, First between Fort and Center.
The report also shows sewers built and
in course of construction as follows:
Main street, 779 feet; First street. 22l
feet; Fifth street, 1000 feet; Spring
street, $50 feet; Fort street, between
Temple and Sixth; Hill street, between
Second and Fifth, and Downey avenue
between Water and Pritchard.
1t also shows that 143 perr,its have
been granted to construct sidewalks, 122
permits to excavate under sidewalks for
buildings, and 300 permits to move
houses.
This bare statement shows how busy
the Street Superintendent has been dur
ing his term of Office, and visit to his
room will disclose very nicely arranged
system of books, which were rendered
necessary by the Vrooman act. These
contain an account of every inch of street
work, together with the cost to each
piece of property, and also show the
names of those who are delinquent upon
their payments for street work. The
duties Of the Office have materially in
creased during the past year.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-12-12
RESERVOIR Site No. 8.

The committee of the Council to which
was referred the matter of the claim of
Messrs. Kelly ct al. to the lands in Res
ervoir No. 5 met yesterday morning in
Mayor Workman's Office. Major Smith
represented the claimants and has taken
the abstract and other papers into con-
sideration, and it is possible that an am
icable adjustment can be reached. The
claimants allege that they are entitled to
quit claim deed to portion of the land
embraced in the site, but Mayor Work
man was of the opinion that they had no
right to the land, and refused to sign the
deed.