Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-08-24
THE B. 4 o. ROAD.
The Work of Reconstruction Already Well
Under WAY,

The Work of Reconstruction Already Well
Under Way.
Neither fire nor water can knock out a
railroad company, and no matter what dis
aster oyertskes them they have heart for
every fate, and always bob up serenely.
So it is with the B. & o. company. With
one disaster treadipg upon the heels OF
another, they are on deck, and early yes
terday morning the click OF the hammer
could be heard in the land, and hundreds
of busy hands were engaged in starting off
the work of repair to the damaged road.
Ga the main line the damage done the
road, as detailed in yesterday mornings
REGISTER, which was principally between
Cameron and Wheeling, was all repaired
sufficiently to allow trains TO pass over,
and No. 5, with General Manager Glenn
ents' car attached, arrived here about $50
o'clock yesterday morning, bringing a
number of passengers who were only too
anxious and glad to reach home again.
A large number of carpenters, bridge
builders and track hands were early on
the grounds, and with them came material
for rebuilding
THE DAMAGED ROAD.
Captain Clements, Superintendent Patton,
and Master of Construction Arthur Sinsei
soon had things in shape to commence
work, and large force was put TO work TO
throw trestle work across the creek again,
the men working from both ends. The
work could not be prosecuted as rapidly as
before on account of the high water, but 1t
will not be many hours after the water re-
cedes that the bridge will be once again
ready for travel.
superintendent Patton went up to Pitts
burg during the day to direct the force at
the other end, and by this morning force
of 600 men will be employed in building
what the waters swept away. Oi these
300 will work from the Pittsburg end and
800 from the Wheeling end.
Capt. Clements and Superintendent j..
7. Legge went ont a. far as Roney's Point
Yesterday afternoon to look over the road.
Capt. Clements said last evening that the
damage was greater this time than in July,
although not 10 much of the road bed was
destroyed. The worst point in this re-
spect is probably this side of Mt. de
Chantal.
81 have nv figures made mp as to when
We will get trains through again, said the
Captain, "but for fear of being little mis-
taken won't tell you until tomorrow,
when will know more definitely"
THROUGH By MONDAY AT THE FARTHEST.
When the Captain makes an estimate Of
a. "A 10 "A aarfniu nj
of work with n certain number Of men,
one may depend upon it that he will
not be many hours out Of the
way. The sparkle in his eyes yesterday
indicated that he expected some very tall
work to be done in the next three or four
days, and if trains are not through on the
Pittsburg division by Monday next it will
be something very strange. This Is al
NEST an ASSUMED fsct, and il will be in
plenty time for the people coming to the
greatest Fair and Exposition ever held in
the Ohio Valley.
Soon after dark last evening, and just as
the gang which had been working all day
ON the bridge heads laid down their tools
until this morning, new force of seventy
five men went TO work getting out timber
for the restoration Of the bridges east Of
the city. Pine timbers twenty-five feet
long ard ten inches square were dumped
into the creek on the south side, hoated
across, hauled up the bank onto Main
street with ropes, and stacked up on Six
teenth street. There they will be loaded
and taken out the road, to be used in re-
constructing the track. The gang of men
were engaged most Of the night in this
work.
Trains on the main line will be running
rs usual to-day and also on the Trans Ohio
division, leaving the city.