Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-07-21
and four horse load of provisions has
been distributed at Trisdelphia where the
ssddest losses are.


ssddest losses are.
At Trisdelphia the scene is
UTTERLY AND INDESCRIBABLY wRETcHED
The town is on bottom land and strung out
for not quite q mile along the creek.
Scarcely house escaped serious damage.
The storm came from the northwest with
the rspidity Of thought and while half the
sky was yet clear trees were uprooted and
houses torn from their foundations and
swept away by the water. 1t is described
as having been equal to water spout in
ierceness and suddenness Not only did
the creek leap out of its bounds and cover
the town but the bridge over Chapel Run,
back of the town, gave way damming that
stream till the force of water became ire.
sistible when it swept away the bridge
wreck and went rushing and roaring
through the centre of the town carrying
houses and trees with it as if they were 80
many corks. The scene presented yester-
day was one Of wreck and mud. An aver
age earthquake could not have left nearly
so woful scene behind. Men, women
and children, in about every house in the
town, were engaged yesterday in scraping
mud out of rooms and washing
mud off of chairs, tables and cooking
utensils, such as were absolutely necessary
for immediate use. Although many Of
them had lost everything they had in the
world, there they were, working with o
will amid the mud and water, often help
ing some equally unfortunate nsighbor
with sslf-iorgetfulness, remarkable and
heroic, which is only to be encountered
under such circumstances. In upper and
lower Triadslphia the loss is about evenly
balanced. 1t was impossible yesterday
to get any intelligable account Of the in
dividual losses, as everybody was loser,
and nobody had any time to calculate the
losses Of his neighbor.
L. Wheeler loses 81, 900 on his store and
stock.
Those who are loosers to the extent of
everything they possessed including every
stick and stone of their dwellings are:
G. Craft, George Wickham, Robert
Armstrong. Clay Hunter, Taylor Forman,
John Rinkus, Capt. Mccoy, Aug Ebe-
ling, Mrs. Feay, Fred. Bady, Joe Whis-
son.
Mrs. Feay and her daughters, Alice
and Belle, lived OF the banks of the
creeks. When the flood came upon their
house they hastily prepared to leave it.
They opened the front door to the blind.
ing storm and stepped out onto what they
supposed was terra firma with foot or 30
of water covering it. 1t proved however
to be the creek. The house, without their
knowing it, had been turned completely
around. They were all drowned. Their
bodies were soon recovered, how
ever, and yesterday were buried
from the Elm Grove school house
William CASTOR, who was drowned at
Point Mills, was also buried from the same
place at the same time. Mr.. Gaston's g
wife was carried down the creek aud seri-
ously hurt, but the chances are in favor OF
her recovery. John Rice, Of Upper Tria-
delphia, was carried one mile clinging 10 a
log, and finally safely landed. Forty or
fifty people of Trisdelphis took refuge dur
ing the night in the German Lutheran
Church, which WAS thrown open as gen.
eral place of refuge.
The large frame school house at Trisdel-
phia, valued ut about $4,000, was com.
pletely swept away, not vestige of 1t re-
manning to mark where il stood.
Above Upper Trisdelphia the sight-seers
could not 60, as the county bridge there
had been almost entirely swept away, only
slight curbipg allowing the passage Of
venturesome foot passengers.
The damage sbove, rs far almost as
West Alexander, was quite as severe as at
Triadelphis. Heavy losses to property
and complete destruction Of crops is re-
ported at Point Mills, Valley Grove, Bush
field Mills and Roney's Point.
Out the Dallas pike all the bridges are
gone and the crops are o total loss, and
much live stock was drowned.
Out the Bethany pike much damage is
also reported, and Mrs. Johnston, Of
Clinton, very old lady, whose house was
surrounded by water, died from fright.