Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-07-28
SIXTEEN DROWNED.
VICTIMS OF THE FLOOD.

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The revised death list Of the victims
of last nights food is as follows:
Mrs. Thomas HawIey and four child.
rem, John Holman, Herman Henzel,
Mrs. Barbara Henzel. Miss Alice
Wingert, Miss Anna Wingert, Mrs.
Jane Flay and two daughters, Will
liam CASTOR, Eliza Jane Johnston,
Caull Bell, Mrs. Eaten and three
children, Ex. Sheriff Henry Kemp, of
Marshall county, and an unknown
child.
Another escape from the appall.
ing loss of life was on the Pittsburg
division of the Baltimore and Ohio
road, at Triadelphia station, eight
miles East of the city. The through
express to the East via Pittsbnrg
left the city at 6:20, just as the
storm was breaking, with one hund.
red excursionists for Atlantic City.
When the train approached the
bridge at Triadelphia the engineer
saw the middle pier was gone, hut
put on steam and ran over it. AS
the last car left the bridge it fell,
and was swept away in a twinkling.
The bridge just ahead of the train
fell about the same time, and the
train is holding down the only piece
of track for mile, and will be there
for some time to come.
The passengers left the cars half
an hour after the train stopped, with
the water up to the platform, and
passed the night as best they could
on the hill sides and in neighboring
houses. To-day they were brought
to the city in carriages. Stories of
individuals aud families are numer-
Gus and thrilling. One hundred
square miles of agricultural country
is swept bare. Large numbers of
horses and cattle are drowned and
dozens of houses are gone, while as
many more are stripped OF their
contents and damaged. Nine rail
road bridges and twenty. five wagon
bridges are gone in Ohio county
alone, and a low estimate puts the
loss at S350,000. A few bodies have
been found. The remains OF Mrs.
Feay and her two daughters we're
discovered in fence corner. one of
the girls stripped of her clothing.
William CASTOR was found lodged
in some drift. The current had torn
off all his clothing but his shoes and
stockings. Mrs. Stencil, one of the
Howly children and Mrs. Eaton and
children were also found along the
course of the stream, in the current
of which they lost their lives. MIS-.
Johnston was found dead ON top of
dresser in her house, where she
had endeavored to take refuge from
the water.
The main line OF the Baltimore
and Ohio is clear, but the Ohio Riy-
er road, which parallels it as tar as
Moundsville, is in a very bad condi.
ton. Along the valley Of Wheeling
creek, the country is strewn for miles
with wreck which must be seen to
be fully comprehended. 1t passes
all belief that the ruin everywhere
visible could be accomplished in one
brief hour. The country in every
direction was devastated, and in
the curves of the stream and lodged
against distractions are great mass.
es of drift, acres in extent and many
feet high, amid which can be seen
household goods, wrecks of build
ings, dead animals, clothing and
timber of all sorts, including many
fragments of heavy bridges and Sec
tions of railroad tracks. In the val.
ley Caldwell's Run, through which
the flood swept so disastrously as to
drown dozen people and carry off
q score of houses, the situation Is, if
anything, worse, and at Boggs'
Run, Whlskey Run, VOLTS Run and
in the valley of Short Creek and
Cross Creek the story is the same
one of disaster.
The limits of the storm are sharp.
ly defined. Beginning in the neigh
borhood of Cadiz, Ohio, it swept in
path about twenty miles wide in a
Southeasterly direction through
Mount Pleasant and st. Glars.
vile, Ohio, on through Bridge.
port, Bellaire and Martins Ferry,
where it crossed the Ohio and
Wheeling, on through Elm Grove,
Clinton and Pennsylvania line,
where it spent its force. At
Moundsville, twelve miles South of
this city on the river, no rain fell.