The Red Cloud chief., 1888-07-27
THE WHEELING DISASTER.

straction Wrought BY the storm at
Wheeling and Vicinity.
WHEELING, ". Va, July 2l.-Thursday
nights storm extended sixteen miles east
Of West Alexander. Pa. and the scene all
along the way is one Of desolation and in
conceivable horror. Where the Triadei-
phia school house, a large buiding Of six
rooms, stood. the creek is now a raging
Hood and not even a vestige of even the
foundations remains, while the whole
south half Of the town has disappeared as
clean as if il never existed. The Wheel
ing relief committee. which recently raised
funds for the RowlesburS sufferers, ex-
pended the balance for provisions and sent
i. TO Triadelphia.
The Baltimore & Ohio. Pittsburgh di-
vision. is practically destroyed for fifteen
miles, while the Western Union Telegraph
Company lost forty miles Of wire and
most OF the poles.
Reports from all parts of Ohio County
indicate frat the storm was more disaS-
trous TO life and property in the country
than in the city, but it can not be stated at
this hour how many lives have been lost.
The loss in this city is known to be ten,
with a number reported TO be missing.
Caldwell's run, which passes through
the Eighth ward of this city. was the
scene of the greatest havoc. Three houses
We're swept AVA and all the inmates were
drowned. They We're: Mrs. Barbara
Stencil. Herman Stencil. Alice and Ann
Wingert. of M~iltonsburg. O.. nieces u
Mrs. Stencil: John Holman. Mrs. Thomas
Hawley and four children.
Hawley was in the yard and was swept
q hundred yards down the stream. but
managed TO reach the bank N safety.
Only two bodies have been recovered
Alice Wingert and Mrs. Stencil. Great
damage is reported at Elm Grove and
Triadelphia. The drowned at these points
were: Mrs. Jane Fav and two daughters,
William Warren and wife. Cal Bell. two
young man named Bowman. Mrs. John
Oxford. a widow. aged sixty years. living
at Clinton, this county. died from fright.
The greatest loss Of life was along
Wheeling creek and at Triadeiphia. A
search this morning resulted III the dis
covery OF a number Of bodies near the lat
ter place. Most of them We're found
among the drift which collected al Elm
Grove.
The body of William CASTOR. aged sixty
years. a prominent and wealthy citizen,
was found near Elm Grove. His wife's
! I'D StIc lONAf0 W Atic CAV LAM
Grove hanging on a barbed wire fence.
Charles Caulbell, OF the Wheeling Netrs-
letter. aged fifty years, was found among
drir,wood. Mrs. Jane Fay and her two
grown daughters. Alice and May. We're
discovered a short distance below Triadel-
phia. and the bodies of two brothers named
German were found in a meadow.
Tw~enty-three persons are known TO have
. h.on IrnuyaS among Then, fne sheriff M
Marshall County.
Two cemeteries were washed out and
the collins with bodies fioated down the
river
The line of the Pittsburgh division of the
Baltimore & Ohio will have 10 be practice
allv rebuilt from Elm Grove TO the Penn
sylvania State line. Six large and costly
bridges were washed away and the track
lifted from the roadbed and twisted into
all conceivable shapes for miles At a
stretch. A. some places il is impossible TO
discern wher. ths roadbed had been. while,
with the exception Of only an occasional
gap on high and solid ground. the entire
bed is badly washed.
Interest ceuters in the wreck of the Bal
tirnore * Ohio bridge over the Wheeling
creek at Main street and the fatalities
which attended that disaster. Several Of
those on tie bridge were doubtless
strangers in the city attracted by curiosity
and their absence is not noticed. So far
a can be definitely known there We're
four women and three boys no: since heard
from on the bridge when il went down.
The ,hirtsen-year-obi sun OF Daniel Richie
and a twelve-year-old boy named Eddie
Hathaway are missing.
II is impossible u give any details OF
losses for the reSSon hat those who sUf.
fered can not estimate their own loss as
vet. and every resident of low ground in
the entire valley suffered damage ranging
from 500 to Sl0.Gto. while even those N
the hills lost valuable crops, fences. etc.
The Baltimore q Ohio Company'e loss viii
. reach S:so.0p0 at q Iox estimate. The coun-
tvs loss in roads and bridges will be at
least So. 900: the Wheeling Natural Gas
! Company. 500: the Natural Gas Com
pany of West Virginia. $500: W. 7.
Chambers & Co. Elm Grove coal works.
5000: kiInmins & Hutchinson. Elm Grove
merchants. 5000: city. on washes n
bridges. $1,000: Pittsburgh. Chicago & st.
Louis railroad. $500: Wheeling & Elm
Grove railroad. $1,000; H. G. Hunter, TIL
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