New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-07-25
THE WEST VIRGINIA HORROR,
The Unprecedented Rainfall and Anna ll,ne r,osa
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1 OF Lie. $3.50 4if38 so
a personal visit to all the food stricken
sectlons OF West Virginia by reporter showed
II possible, q worse state of affairs Than those
mat were reported. Indeed lang1la &c cannot
40 Justice TO the ruin and desolation east of the
CITY OF wheeling from Elm Grove almost to
west Alexandria. The line Of the
q ittspurg division of the Baltimore
20 ONO railroad will have to be-
partially rebuilt from Elm Grove to the
pennsylvania state line. Six costly bridges
were washed away, the track lifted from the
ROAD bed and twisted into almost all con-
celVable shapes for miles at a stretch Of
course interest centers in the wreck of the
baltimore L Ohio bridge over Wheeling
creek, and the fatalities which attended
that disaster. Several of those on
the bridge were doubtless strangers in the
city attracted By curiosity. and their abb
sence IS not noticed. So far as can be definite
~ known there were four men and three BOYS
not since heard from on the bridge when it
went down. The revised list of the persons
who persisted is as follows:
Herman Stencil Mrs Barbara Stencil, An
ME Vineyard of Mitonsburg, Ohio; Alice Win
gard, an inmate of the Stencil household.
employ ed as a domestic; Mrs. Thomas Haw-
ley and her Iour children, one boy and three
girls; ohm Holman, Mrs. Jane Flay and her
Two daughters. Alice and Belle; William Gas
ton of Point Mills
There was also report that the family of
a man named johnson, near Clinton had
lost their lives, but this could not be anthem
tlcated. Mr.. Vineyard, the father of the two
girls, has arriyedin the city. He had no
knowledge OF the drowning of his two daugh-
ters until after his arrival
Later and authentic details from Triadel-
ph1a show the destruction there was more
appalling than anywhere else. Fifteen families
are homeless and saved nothing but what they
3 mad on. Half this village of600 inhabitants
were swept away but all but those before
named escaped to the hills. Thestorm extended
about 16 miles east of West Alexander, Pa,
and the scene all along the way is one of des-
olatlon and uncomfortable horror. Where
the Triadelphia school house, a large build
ing OF SIX rooms stood, the creek is now a
raging flood and not a yestige of even the
foundation remains. The whole south half
OF the town has disappeared as clear as if it
never existed.
1t cannot be stated at this hour how
many lives have been lost The loss
IN Wheeling is known to be ten, with a
number reported missing. Caldwell's Run,
which passes through the city, was the scene
swept away and all the inmates were
drowned. GreaU damage is reported
at Elm Grove and Triadelphia, the
drowned at these points were,
Mrs. Jane Fay and two daughters.
William Castor and wife, Caull Bell and
son, a widow aged so years, residing at Gin
ton, died from fright. About fifteen bodies
have been found SO far. The greatest loss of
life was along Wheeling creek and Triadelphia.
A 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, a prom
inent and wealthy citizen was fonnd near
Elm Grove. His wife's remains were
found two miles below Elm Grove hanging
on a barbed wire fence Charles Caulbell
aged fifty years, was found among driftwood.
Mrs. Jane Fay and her two daughters,
Alice and Mary, were discovered q short
distance below Triadelphin, and the bodies
of two brothers named German were found
in a meadow, where they had been hurled by
the furious waters. Among the number
drowned was the sheriff of Marshall county
Two cemeteries were washed and the collins
with bodies foated down the river.