The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-07-21
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AFTER THE CLOUD BURST
THE loss OF LIFE ESTIMATED AS
HIGH AS TWO HUNDRED.

| Railroad Tracks Twisted Out of Shape
or Washed Away for Miles-Hun-
dreds of People Homeless-Farmers
Suffer Heavy Losses- Some of the
Losses in the City.
PITTsBURG July 2o.-A special to the
! Chronicle Telegraph from Wheeling at
noon says The loss Of life from the flood
last night is at least 200 About fifteen
bodies have been found so far. The money
loss is about 5l50,000 The greatest loss Of
life was along Wheeling creek aud at Fria-
delphia. search this morning resulted in
the discovery Of a number of bodies near
the latter place. Most Of them were found
among drift which had collected at Elm
| Grove.
Tho body of William CASTOR, aged go
| years, a prominent aud wealthy person,
was found near Elm Grove. His wifes re-
mains were found two miles below Elm
| Grove hanging on a barbed wire fence.
CHARLES Caulbell, of the Wheeling NelCs-
| Letter, aged 30 years, was found among the
| drftwood
Mrs. Jane Fay and her two grown up
daughters, Alice and Mary we're discovered
n short distance below 7 riadelphia.
| The bodies of two brothers, named Cor
man, were found in a meadow where they
| il1h bCVll lui ltN b1 bilt lullOuS NdltIS.
TRIADELPHIA THE STORM CENTER.
| WHEELING. w. VA, July 20--Later and
authentic details from TriadelphIa show
that the destruction was more appalling
| there than anywhere else. Fifteen families
are homeless and saved nothing but what
they had on. Half this village of 800 inhab-
| ltants was swept away, but all except those
before named escaped TO the hills The storm
| extended sixteen miles west of West AleXan-
| der Pa and the all niOnfy the a
one Of desolation and horror. Where the
| Triadephia school house, a large building
| of six rooms, stood creek, is now a raging
flood, and not n vestige of even the founda-
tions remain The whole south half of the
the town has disappeared as clear as if 10
| never existed.
RELIEF FOR THE SUFFERERS.
The Wheeling relief committee, which
recently raised funds for the Kowlesbnrg
sufferers, to day expended the balance for
! provisions and sent them to Tuiadelphia.
The Baltimore and Ohio railroads Pits
burg division, is practically destroyed for
| fifteen miles.
The Western Union telegraph company
| lost forty miles OF wire and most of its poles.
The storm was more disastrous to life and
property IN the country than in this city.
TEN DROWNED.
The loss of life in this city is known 20 be
| ten, with a number reported missing
CaIdwelPs run, which passes through tho
| eighth ward OF this city, was the scene of
the greatest havoc. Three houses were
swept away and all their inmates drowned.
They were Mrs. Barbara Stencil and
her son, Herman Stencil; Alice
and Annie Wingent Of Millions
| burg, o., nieces Of Mrs. Stencil;
John Thomas and Mrs. Hawley and four
children. Mrs. Hawley's husband was i'll
the yard and was swept 100 yards down the
af- but ,ra1 70, ,l h. La,xl IL,
safety. Only two bodies have been recov-
ered those of Alice Wingent aud Mrs.
| StenZel Mrs. johnson, a widow aged 90,
residing at Clinton, in this county, died
from fright.
TWISTED TRACKS.
The line of the Pittsburg division Of the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad will have to
! he practically rebuilt gyom Elm Grove to
| tho Pennsylvania state line Six large aud
costly bridges were washed away and the
track lifted from the roadbed and twisted
into all conceivable shapes for miles at II
| stretch. At some places it Is impossible to
discern where the road bed has been, while
with the exception of only an occasional
gap on the high ground the entire bed Is
badly washed.
THE DISASTER AT THE BRIDGE.
OF course interest centers in the wreck of
the Baltimore and Ohio bridge over Wheel
ing creek, at Main street, and the fatalities
| which attended that disaster Several Of
those on the bridge were doubtless strangers
in the city, attracted by curiosity, and their
| absence is not noticed. So far as is def
nitoly known there were four mon and three
| boys not since heard from on the bridge
when it went down. A l3-year-old
son Of Daniel Richie and 10
yearold hoy named Eddie Hath
away are missing. Tho impossibiity
Of reaching the worst localities cannot be
appreciated. The creek is dangerously
swollen and roads washed, bridges caved
in. and telephone and telegraph lines down.
| The fall OF water from to 6:55 o'clock
| Thursday afternoon by the gauge at Tria-
delphia was 81 inches.
THE FINANCIAL LOSS.
1t is impossible to give any details of the
loss tonight, because those who suffered
cannot estimate their own loss AS yet, and
every resident of the low grounds in the en-
tire valley suffered damage ranging from
81 900 to $4,000, while even those ON the
hills lost valuable crops, fences, etc
| The Baltimore and Ohio company's loss
will reach $3.50, 900 at the lowest estimate
The countys loss in roads and bridges and
school houses will be at least csc, 900.
Other losses are as follows: Wheeling
natural gas company, 5000; the Natural
Gas company Of West Virginia, Sc, 500; w.
| T.. Chambers q Co., Elm Grove coal
works, 5000; Kimmins & Hutchinson Of
! Elm Grove 81, 200; Wheeling on washouts
and bridges s., 900; Pittsburg, Chicago and
st. Louis railroad, s2,5OO; Wheeling and
Elm Grove roilroad, $4,000; H. c. Hunter,
Triadelphia, brick manufacturer, 81, 1000;
From a. Berthy, furniture dealers of this
city, $500; w. A Mccoy Of Triadelphia
on house, $1,000.
A TERRIFIC THUNDERSTORM.
ST. CLAREsvILLE, o., July 20.-This
place and vicinity were visited last evening
| by a most terrific thunderstorm with a
violent wind and rain fall that eclipsed the
average waterspout. Grain fields were
| laid waste, shocks were swept away and
| growing corn is not 10 bo seen
The Bell Aire aud 81 Clairsville and St.
| Clairsville and Northern railroads are al
most entirely washed out An incoming
train on the Baltimore and Ohio road was
stranded at Echo and the passengers, as
best they could, escaped with their lives,
the water, filed with drift running up to
the headlight Of the engine Several mar
row escapes are reported, and 1t Is feared a
number OF lives have been lost. This place
and vicinity are damaged not less than
! 100000.
Train Steward Killed.
/ IL.