The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-07-21

was suspended. Inc SleVeIunu " flLtS-
burgh bridge Just above is badly cracked
and raised nearly two feet above the
track, by the hundreds OF tons OF debris
under it. The Wheeling Natural Gas
Company's pipes were laid bare and
broken, and u force Of men were repair
ing them yesterday.
Further down the track, Just below
West Wheeling, was bridge No. 50, on
the Cleveland 4 Pittsburgh railroad. 1t
was wide arch OF stone, and the very
thin looking remnants OF the abutments
are all that is left OF it to-day.
FURTHER DAMAGE.
Whisky run, good.sized stream,
flows through under this bridge in a
wide bed, and coming down from the
steep hill beyond brought trees, heavy
logs and stones with terrible swiftness
against the bridge, which could not
stand the force, and giving way let the
tracks fall fifty feet below. Directly
under where the bridge stood are dozens
OF stones ten and fifteen feet long, tight
" wedged in. A hundred men were Mt
work yesterday removing these to make
room for temporary trestle, which
the railroad company expects to have
built to-day. Passengers were trans
ferred over n board walk laid by the
company down the hillside and across
the creek bed, distance Of seventy
five feet, And the passengers seemed
to take the situation good naturally, and
hustled through the passage-way with n
cheeriulness that made everything
pleasant.
A house owned by Mr.. Wolf, a short
distance up the run was carried, with
all its contents, through the bridge into
the river. Several houses further up
the run were filed with rocks and tim
Der, and the household goods were badly
damaged.
The people OF West Wheeling, seeing
thousands OF dollars damage ut home,
were more eager to learn something
from Wheeling and other places, and
while hundreds visited the scene Of the
wreck there, as many went from the
little village to other places.
Cleveland, Lorain 4 Wheeling trains,
it is thought, will be running tomorrow
and Cleveland & Pittsburgh trains to-
day.
FIFTY HOUSES FLOODED.
Wheeling Creek is an entirely diff
ferent scene from that Of any other place,
the larger half OF the place being GOV.
cred with thick, yellow mud, from two
to four feet deep. Back OF the coal tip.
pie Il little run flows down from the hill
and follows the coal switch half way
through the town TO culvert about two
feet high. All the water from the two
hills ran down into this little stream,
and almost before the rain was over a
raging body OF mud aud water passed
through the coal tipple until it was car.
ried away, and iR7an hour more the
water was over six feet deep over the
entire portion OF the town below the
hill. Fifty or sixty houses resting on
posts were filed with mud and water.
These houses are all one-stOry and occu-
pied by miners Of all nationalities, all
Of them poor. Everything they had
was in their cellars or the houses, and
not enough eatables could be found in
the whole town yesterday to make one
man meal.
HEART-RESDING SCENES.
The cellars arc filled up with thick
yellow clay and everything in them de-
stroycd. The screams Of the women
and children, when the waters began to
hem them in on all sides, were heart
reuding, and so unncrved the men that
they were unable to save anything from
destruction. There are ut least fifty
families who will lose from so to Sl0O
in carpets, furniture and food. fester.
day men with scrapers and shovels could
be seen throwing out the dirty mud
which was nearly loot deep on their
floors. The town has the appearance Of
filthy hog wallOw, and the poor miners
are compelled to wade in mud nearly to
their waists, dig drains aud remove the
mud iron the sidewalks. The little
culyert would not carry oil one-tenth oil
the water and it burst, letting good
portion through the railroad tracks
Several cars loaded with coal were drop
ped about ten feet, the track giving
away underneath. Near the coal tipplC
is fully an acre OF drift wood and bould'
ers. The report that child was
drowned in the food is untrue, as nc
lives were lost.
At Soap Town, q few miles above the
coal works, the runs flooded the pike to
deptb Of ten feet, and did some little
damage to property. Allalongthe creek
bottom thousands OF dollars worth OF
CROPS are lost,
Every little stream in the country
rose high enough to do damage either to
roads or property.
Belmont county will lose between
81, 900 and $1,000 on bridges and con;
siderable amount on roads. Two
bridges between Bellaire and Bridge
port are down and two costly ones on
Glenn's run are entirely gone
AT BELLAIRE.
The water spout Thursday evening
was one of the severest that ever visited
this section. The water came down in
torrents for a few minutes and the
creeks and runs all about here were
wild and dangerous.
In Bellaire there was no little anxiety
rs the streets became flooded and Indian
run and McNIahon's creek poured out,
McNIahon's creek was filed with house
hold goods Of every kind, and cars from
the B. & 0. tracks were piled up in tho
debris that iloated down. The farms and
gardens along McNIahon's creek were
devNsted in less than an hour, and not
less than twenty houses were flooded.
Louis Kramer's store at Quincy was
washed away, including all the stock,
and Jacob Longs house and everything
he had were carried away. Atleast four
houses along the creek were swept away,
together with their contents, while the
damage to farms and gardenscannct now
be estimated.
The bridge over Indian run, on Noble
street, was completely undermined, and
almost entirely washed away. A tenn
porary Az was mqdo 90 that the tegms
can still cross at that point but the
foundation is gone and it will require
several hundred dollars to make the
necessary repairs.
The reservoir filled up and ran over
flooding cellars and houses on the hill