Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-07-21
MISSING.

There Is some uncertainty as regards severs
persons, who mus. be temporarily placed under
this head They are:
Three men, names unknown, part OF group
of five, who came down Wheeling creek to Elm
Grove. Two of them succeeded In getting Oh
there, but the others went on past.
AMI. or Mrs Eaton, and three children, who
were persistently reported to be mi sing up the
valley of Middle Wheeling creek. Nothing def
mite could be ascertaiued last evening regarding
them, and the names ars put in this column for
the time being.
Willie Ritehie, boy, supposed to have teen
lost from the b. & o. bridge in this city.
The Bowmans persistently reported to be
drowned, are all right.
The REGISTER was not in error yester-
day morning, when it set down the storm
of Thursday evening as great calamity.
The facts coming to light yesterday, and
the knowledge of what is even yet to come,
prove conclusively that the first estimate
of the deluge was the correct one.
The long list of the dead, the fear preys-
lent as to the safety Of others still missing,
and the horrible stories of loss and damage
to property coming to light every hour,
and from every quarter of the territory sur
rounding this city, both in Ohio and West
Yirginia-these are facts which show the
storm to have been without parallel in
all the history of this portion Of the coun-
try, and to have had few equals anywhere
in the United States.
What the monetary loss will be cannot
be definitely sscsrtained, and it will never
be fully known. In dozens, scores-yes, in
hundreds of instances, individual losses,
often quite large, will never be heard Of,
and others, set down as being so much,
will in reality affect the unfortunate loser
to q far greater extent. Looking care
fully over the entire area swept by the
storm, and making due allowances for all
contingencies, the REGISTER is inclined to
put the loss to the people of Belmont
county, O., Brooke, Ohio and Marshall
counties, West Virginia and Washington
county, Pa, at q million and half OF
dollars. The area swept by the storm en-
braces about three hundred square miles,
It's edge was sharply defined in near
" all directions. In Ohio its
northwestern limit did not extend
beyond Cadiz, if 50 far, while
its western edge rested in the neighoor-
hood Of Sc. Clairsvills, extending south to
or 9 little beyond the line Of the trans
Ohio division Of the B. & o. 1t crossed
the river 9 short distance below Bellaire,
little rain falling at the Narrows, in Mar
shall county, and none ut Moundsville.
Sweeping eastward it spent itself at the
Pennsylvania line, while northwsrd, on
the river, it did not 20 much above Wells
bsrg. 1t was by no means of equal vio-
= "a ,.-sr all this area. Large sections
60 ~%vith nothing but hard rain
with'' cerious loss to property, woile in
other, I'd happily smaller, sections the
dsluge came with all its fury.
As rs stated yesterday, the
storm bad . slow movement from
northwest 10 southeast, swinging on .
pivot b 1t went. and on this theory one
Can a>ount for the irregular torce Of the
rain Ia the recurrence Of hail at points in
drtt line. A peculiar fact, also, is
that ibree of the rain seems to have
been I'D short distance from the
southsl hits of the storm area, or on q
w Whisky run, across 10 CAld-
mn. and thence by Way Of Elm