Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-07-26
rlE Nesr YmeIsIa HoEaon.
rAs unpresessntsd RaIafaiI aud AppaIIhs Loss
az Life.

A personaI visit TO all the food stricken
sections of West Yiyginiahy areporter showed
II possible q worse state Of affairs than those
that we're reported Indeed language cannot
city of Wheeling from Elm Grove almost 10
West Alexandria. The line Of the
Piftshurg division OF the Baltimore
4 Ohio railroad will have to be-
partially rebuilt from Elm Grove to the
PeHnsyirania state line Six costly bridges
were wsislls-i away, the truck lifted from the
road bed and twisted into almost all con
cpiyahle shapes for miles at stretch. OF
course interest reniers in the wreck Of the
baltimore & Ohio bridge over Wheeling
creek. and the fatalities which attended
that disaster Several Of those on
the bridge were doubtless strangers in the
city attrasted by curiosity. and their ab-
senee Is moi noticed. So Tar asean be dehnlte-
ly known there were four men and three boys
not since heard from on the bridge when IL
went down. The revised list Of the persons
who persisted is as follows;
Herman Stenzrl, Mrs Barbara, Stencil, An
uie wingard Of MiltOnsburg, Ohio; Alice Win
gard. an inmate OF the Stencil household.
Employ cd as a domestic; Mrs. Thomas Haw-
icy and her four children, one boy aud three
girls: John Holman Mrs. Jane Flsy and her
two daughters. Alice and Belle; William Gas
ton Of Point Mills
There was also report that the family Of
{. man named johnson, near Clinton. had
lost their hives. but this could not be anthem
ticaied. Mr.. wingard, the father Of the two
girls, has arrived in the city. He had no
knonleigc Of the drowning OF his two daugh-
ten until after his arrival.
Later and authentic details from Triadel-
phia show the destruction there was more
appallngthan any where else. Fifteen families
are homeless and sav we'd nothing but whatthey
had ON. Half this village of6OO inhabitants
were SWEPT away, but all but those before
named escaped 10 the hills. Theetorm extended
about 16 miles east of West Alexander. Pa.
and the scene all along the way is one Of des-
olation and inconceiyable horror. Where
the Triadclphia school house. a large build
ing of six rooms stood, the creek Is now
raging food and not a yestige Of even the
foundation remains. The whole south half
ol the town has disappeared rs clear as II it
never existed.
st cannot be stated at this hour how
many lives have been lost The loss
in Wheeling is known to be ten, with u
number reported missing. Caldwells Run,
which passes through the city, was the scene
OF the greatest havoc. Three houses were
swept away and all the inmates were
drowned. Great damage Is reported
ut Elm Grove and Triadelphia, the
drowned at these points were,
Mir, Jane FAY and two daughters.
William CASTOR and wife, Cauli Bell and
two young men named Bowman. Mrs. John-
son, a widow aged go years, residing at Gin
ton, died from fright About fifteen bodies
have been foun,i SO far. The greatest loss of
life was along Wheeling creek and Triadelphia-
search resulted in the discovery Of a num-
Der of bodies near the latter place. Most of
them were found among the drift which
collected at Elm Grove. The body OF
William CASTOR, aged sixty years, prom
inent and wealthy citizen was fonnd near
Elm Grove His wife's remains were
found two miles below Elm Grove hanging
on "a barl,ed wire fence. Charles Caulbell.
aged fifty years, was found among driftwood.
Mrs, Jane Fay and her two daughters,
Alice and Mary, were discovered short
distance below Triadelphin, and the bodies
of two brothers named German were found
in meadow, where they had been hurled by
the furious waters Among the number
drowned gas the sheriff of Marshall county.
Two cemeteries we're washed and the collins
with bodies hoated down the river.