The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-07-21
OYER THE RIVER,


OYER THE RIVER.
rhc Scene In DnyliEht-The Damage Near
Iyns Great ns by tho Flood OF IS8t-SIck.
cnInG Details.
The blockade of earth and logs on the
Cleveland 4 Pittsburgh road in Martins
Ferry was removed late yesterday morn
ing, and trains were run to Bridgeport,
where passengers took lodging. The
damage in Etnaville was slight, only
The upper part of the town being flood
ed and few cellars filled. Louis Frick
finds his loss. not so heavy US at first
stated.
At Bridgeport everything is turned
upside down in Kirkwood, and the
chief topic OF conversation is the disas-
trous storm. At the point where the
run leaves the hollow and flows through
the culvert, the road is washed a dis
lance OF 10 feet, and the water getting
a good headway through this cut rushed
into the front OF james Clayland's resi-.
deuCe, occupied by james Quigly, tear
ing away the front room and leaving the
rest Of the house standing, but badly
twisted. Mr. Quigly, his wife and eight
children were eating supper at the time,
and the flood came so suddenly that
they had barely time to escape from the
house to the street. Their house
hold goods that were taken away
were recovered from the stream with
much difficulty. Everything on the
lower floors were either lost or so badly
damaged rs 10 make them unfit Tor use.
Mr.. Clayland's loss will amount to sew.
eral hundred dollars, and Mr.. Quigly's
loss is 500.
A large twenty foot log lodged against
the corner OF Samuel Wrights house
and served rs guard wall,
TURNING THE WATER AWAY
from his home, which otherwise might
have been ruined.
John Shrodes had just filed his cellar
with food, vegetables, ETC., and every
thing was carried away. Joseph Ingram
had Just finished his work on fine
yard and grounds about his house, and
now the place looks like q muddy river
bottom. The water coming over the
culvert filled the houses in its course to
u depth OF two feet in us many minutes,
the people not having a moments warn
ing In which to pull up carpets or set
out furniture. John Donnelly lost q
coop OF valuable chickens, about thirty
in number.
A stable belonging to Daniel Moore
was washed down against the Mr.. Fau-
cCtts stable, distance OF seventy.tivc
yards. The houses OF Frank Barker
and Oswald Schick were surrounded by
drift wood and their cellars filed with
water.
The run makes turn in the rear OF
Mr.. Schick's house, and there the
heavy body OF water, boHlders and logs
were swept with full force across Whitley
street and against the house owned by
Mr. A. ]. Bags, tearing out the side OF
the foundation and letting the drift
wood and mud into the cellar.
Whitley street is covered by huge
bOulders and logs that it will take days
to remove. William GifEin's pretty little
frame is a total wreck and will have to
be rebuilt. The dwelling was valued at
1000. Mr.. George GitIin's yard, which
had
JUST BEEN CLEARED
OF the rubbish Of the last heavy rain
was made the receptacle OF large por-
tons OF the boulders and logs That were
brought down the run. A force OF men
were fengaged in hauling ii away
yesterday, but the pile OF debris is so
large that one days work would hardly
be noticeable. Through Mr.. Giflin's
yard the swollen stream found its way
to Belmont street, where nearly every
house on the lowlands was completely
surrounded with water and drift wood.
The swift current with its heavy load OF
wood and stone crashed into the cooper
shop near the Cleveland 4 Pittsburgh
railroad and almost buried that structure
from sight. The water came down here
with such force that they pushed up the
bank and over the railroad tracks to
height Of twenty feet. The cooper shop
was owned by William Campbell, OF
Martins Ferry, and is valued ut 5000.
1t will take days and weeks to remove
the rubbish that surrounds and covers 1t.
The damage in and about kirkwood
will sum up several thousand dollars.
AT West Wheeling the scene Is lar
worse than at Bridgeport. Nothing like
it has been known since the flood OF
1868. The damage far surpasses that OF
The delGgc Of 1854, the railroad Compan-
fes this time hefng
ruE up ,NIpSr fpsERs
The little village cannot be reached
by wagon road from either side, and
passengers going east have to be trans
ierred around bridge No. 80.
Several hundred yards above the town
Moore's run passes under the Lleysiqnd
4 Pittsburgh road, under the wagon
road and through the Cleveland, LoFain
Il Wheeling trcstle TO the river. A few
steps above flows the stream known as
the Upper run. These two streams
unite under the Clegel4rd, Lorain &I
railroad before going through |
the trestle. Moore's run is u good sized
stream and flows in q deep and wide
bed. The water came bounding down
the run in large volumes, spreading
wider as it neared the river. A distance
81 several hundred yards up the run the
pretty little frame houses oil Dave Joint,
Charles TuttIe, William Miller and
Thomas Moore were Caughtby the raging
current and tumblcd and tossed about
ike chips until they came in contact
with the stone arched bridge No. 90, on
he Cleveland 4 Pittsburgh railroad. The
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