Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-07-21

injured all along the valley. Oats espec.
tally, which promised splendid crop are
living fat. On Short creek, Deans black
smith shop and Mitchell's grocery were
swept away, and about twenty-five bead
of hogs drowned and carried Of. Mr.
Mitchell was rescued just - his dwelling
was being carried of. Mrs. Mary Lauchlin
and Jonathan Hyde heard the cries Tor
help and ran to the rescue in the nick ol
time. Coming on down the river, the
farms along the bottom, close to town, sui
fered heavy damage. Among the losers IN
this neighborhood were A. ID. Garden,
Mr.. Lasch, Thomas Garden, Geo. Dusch,
and Mr.. Stinger. Henry Kirshner's
place was pretty generally under water
this morning, and he must have lost q
good deal"
Mr.. ALEX. WILSON
said. 'It began to rain up on Short Greek
about four o'clock in the afternoon, and
rained tor three hours very hard. There
ia great damage to the crops. Charlie
Smith, on the Peter Delaplaine farm. lost
his entire wheat crop, which was In shock.
The fill on the Ohio River road, at the
mouth of Short Greek, is badly damaged,
and the bridge abutments badly under
mined. Several bridges over Buffalo creek
are badly injured. The centre pier Of the
county bridge at Wellsburg is entirely
gone, and the bridge with it The rail-
road bridge at the same point Is very
much damaged, and il is thought one Of
the abutments will have TO be taken down
and rebuilt. Buffalo and Pierce's runs
were higher than they have been for years.
The factory dam and Lewis dam, on Buff
falo creek, have both gone out"
MR. THOMAS RINE,
who came into town yesterday morning,
from the other side of Roney's Point said:
THE devastation all through the section
about the Point is very great. Barney
Crows house, on the east Of the Point, Is
pretty we'll wrecked inside. His family
left in time to escape . wetting, but the
father remained, and had Q pretty close
call. The most wonderful escape have
heard of was that of Mrs. CASTOR. Her
house was swept away, and her husband
drowned. The house was thrown up
against bad ledge Of rocks and was saved.
Neither you or l could get MP the place she
did if we would take two hours to it."
WILLIAM M'CAsTLR,
of near Haneytown, came through TO the
city, and described the finding OF the
bodies of the Fsay women. He said:
"They were all lying close by the side ol
the pailing fence, near the house. Two
were on one side, and one on the other.
They must have attempted TO escape, and
were overtaken by the food, for the part
of the house they were in was not swept
away. while the remainder was. Had
they stayed in the house, their lives would
have been saved. Two Of the ladies were
dressed, while third body had
nothing on but chemise."
WILLIAM RAY
said: 81 can safely say the roads In my
section Of the county never were in any.
thing like the condition found them To-
day. We tried for an hour this morning
to ride 1t, and then had to give it mp.
There was no loss of life on that run.
Joseph Whissen's house was washed away,
and the crops are ruined, as matter oi
course. The storm was much worse than
that of ten days days ago-many times
worse. Great rocks, logs and all sorts Of
stuff is washed out on the roads, and II
will cost a large sum Of money to put
things in anything like their former shape.
Joseph Whissen's house was carried off.
At Point Mills William Gaston's house
was swept away, and he went with 1t.
His wife succeeded in getting out half a
mile below. The bridges are gone all
along the creek. Elsey Bowman, was re.
ported to be drowned, last night, but he
is all right. He managed to get hold ol
q telegraph pole, and hung there for an
hour. He was about exhausted when re-
lief came"
WILLIAM WHITE
said: "The Peters run road is about oil
gone. II was washed away clean in many
places. Part Of Will Higgs' house, below
Point Mills, is gone. William Chesser',
house, above Valley Grove, Ia gone. lie
had $l73 in cash in a chest, and IL il miss
ing along with the other stuff. Ed Lysle's
house, below Chesser's, is also gone"
MES. ELEvIs,
who lives on the Pittsburg division Of the
B. & O., near what is called the second
cut, beyond Mt. de Chantsl, said: "The
loss was great. About everything We had
is gone. Mr.. William Keller's house Is
gone, with all their things. The road Is
terribly cut up, and all the fences. crops,
ETC., carried of. David Hill, Of Elm Grove,
came q long distance down the creek on
the roof OF his house. His case is 0 very
bad one, as he has not thing In the world
except what he has on his back. tell
you, it was terrible to see how the things
came down the creek-beds, chairs, tables,
dead cows, and ell manner of things. The
loss up the creek must have been terrible. "
DAN PRAaER
was married Thursday afternoon, and left
with the excursion party, over the Pitt
burg Division of the B. Il U. for Atlantic
City, the train pulling out Of the 3. & o.
depot here at $40, Just a. the storm Wa
breaking over the city. His train got ~
far as Trisdelphia, and the passengers,
about fifty or more in number, put In q
miserable night there, and were carted
back to the city in carriages yesterday,
getting here about noon. They were GOV.
cred with mud and almost exhausted from
hunger and loss Of sleep. They gave
graphic account Of their experiences, and
all united in saying that the entire train
had . very narrow escape from being
thrown into the creek and the passengers
drowned. Mr.. Prsger said:
when we approached the bridge the
engineer saw that the middle support had
been carried away. He put on sll steam
and the train dashed across. / wAs
in the last car, and - the truck
left the bridge the structure, re-
lieved from the pressure, sprang into the
air aud fell back into the creek. / think
il was very close call. The train was
rum onto switch; and II is there yet,
holding down about the only piece Of
track in the vicinity. don't believe they
will get II out OF there for two weeks. We
had great time last night. About fifty
Of us climbed to the top Of the hill spd
went to the house Of farmer. He took
the best care Of us be could, bat ~ be wss
not anticipating visit from % many call.
err, the estsbles were naturally little
thin. got some black coffee and piece
of bread. We took up collection for
him, and gave him about fifteen dollar.
We ruined bis carpets pretty we'll With
mud, and one o. the party, Q merchant,
promised he would send him carpets for
his entire house - soon - b eot back 70