The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-08-23
AFTBR THE BIG FLOOD.
Repairing the Damage Rapidly
all day Yesterday,
SIGHTsEERs OUT IN FORCE.

SIGRTsEERS OUT IN FORCE.
Temporary Arrangements for the Gas
aud Water supply FOR South Side.
Natural Gas and Electric
Lights o. K.-Thc River.
The only addition developments yes
terday from the food OF Tuesday were
facts that did not come to hand the night
before on account of the cutting off of
railroad communication. The storm
reached nearly to Grafton, and from
away north OF Pittsburgh to Kentucky.
The damage wasgsneral in all directions
for twenty or thirty miles, and sections
OF country which escaped comparatively
well at the two former storms, caught it
severely this time.
Passengers for Wheeling on the train
from Grafton Tuesday afternoon got rs
far as Glen Easton, where the train
stuck. Bridge No. l4i, about two miles
west Of Glen Easton, is damaged badly.
At Rosby's Rock there is a bad washout
Of ten feet in length. This side OF there
about thirty feet OF an embankment
twenty feet high is gone. At least 200
feet OF n fill twenty-five feet high was
washed away this side OF that, and bridge
1873 is gone. The railroad officials esti-
mate that it will take two days work
yet to make temporary repairs.
At Rosby's Rock the flood was espec-
tally severe. Houses were destroyed OF
washed away, and yesterday morning
the unfortunate residents were hunting
among the wreckage and rescuing house
hold goods and valuables not rendered
entirely worthless. Live stock and
crops suffered severely in that locality
and the loss in the aggregate will mount
up into the thousands OF dollars.
IN THE CITY.
Another section OF the Baltimore 4
Ohio trestle over the creek at Main and
Sixteenth streets let go ut noon yester
day, and fell into the creek with Q
spiash, whence it was whirled rapidly
out into the river and carried OFF down
the Ohio. This left none OF the structure
standing.
High board fences were built across
each end OF the destroyed stone bridge
over the creek at Main street yesterday
There was big rush OF people to the spoI
all day, and the Market street bridge
was crowded almost all the time witt
people watching the swollen creek. The
stream continued to run out strongly
until the afternoon, when it was clear o
drift and the tide slowed up consider
ably. Last night it quit running GU
and by midnight was still, the rive
backing up into it.
Nineteenth street, which always sinks
badly when there is high water in the
creek, went down about three feet THU
time for space about forty feet il
length and reaching clear across the
street. The creek bank in that vicinity
and elsewhere was washed away badly
Right OH the edge OF the bank that wa'
left is a stake marking the proposed
middle line of the South Pennsylvania
& Ohio railroad. 1t was suggested yes
terday that had this road been allowed
to build its track on piling there the
washing would have been largely pre-
vented.
There was rumor that the Market
street bridge had been undermined and
rendered unsafe, but no sign OF danger
was perceptible, and the rumor was pro
nOuIced gensecss hoax.
WATER ASD GAS.
The Electrical Company went to worI
yesterday morning according to pro
grammC and laid n twO-inch water pipe
from the Tack factory on Nineteenth
street across the Market street bridge
and down All alley to its power house or
Chapline and Twenty-second streets
and the engines were started last even
ing and the lights burned us usual las
night.
The South Side water supply was moi
sufficient US run through the double
line OF fire hose across the Market stree
bridge, as it did not reach the more ele
waited parts OF the South Side. Accord
ingty, the Niagara fire engine WINS KEEP
at work yesterday and last night pump
ing water through the hose at its full
capacity, the result being an ample sup
ply for domestic prices, though the fac
tories had to shut down. Superintend
ent Riddle, OF the Water Works, laid {
temporary six.inch main across the
Market street bridge, connecting witt
the mains north and south Of the creek
and by this morning the South Siderl
will receive their,water supply through
this main.
TheG0s board hadatemporary main lait
across Caldwell's run yesterday, which
gave the Eighth warders gas last night
The whole South Side is now Furnished
with gus, il not adequately, at least in
sufficient quantity to prevent any par
OF town being left in total darkness.
The West Virginia Natural Gas Com
panv secured an arrangement with the
Wheeling company yesterday by which
it was able 10 turn the gus from the othel
company's mains into its own for the
use OF householders only. 1t wasturneC
in Mt noon Vesteulnv. much TO the prati