Morning journal and courier., 1888-07-21
News by Telegraph
 FROM ALL QUARTERS. COFFINS IN THE FLOOD. Graves Washed Out In West Virginia. "A GHASTLY SCENE OF WRECK. Chicago Anarchists Looking
 For Blood. SUICIDE IN TULLAMORE JAIL. Mir. Fuller Confirmed As
 Chief Justice.
CORPsEs RIDING THE FLOOD.

Two Cemeteries Washed out by 1he
 West Virginia Cloud Hurst and the COans Float Down Stream-Herr1s ble Details of a Disaster That Was Most Appalling.
 WHEELING, W. Va, July 20.-Later and
 authentic details from Philadelphia show that
 the destruction there was more appalling
 than anywhere else. Fifteen families are
 homeless and saved nothing but what they
 had on. Half this village of six hundred in-
 habitants was swept away, but all the resi- dents except those before named escaped to the hills. The storm extended sixteen miles east of West Alexander, Pa., and the scene
 along the way is one of desolation and incon-
 oeivable horror Where the Triadelphia school house, large building of six rooras, stood, the creek is now raging food and not vestige of even the foundation remains
 The south half of the town has disappeared
 as clear as if it never had existed. The Balti-
 more and Ohio railroad, Pittsburg division,
 is practically destroyed for fifteen miles The
 Western Union Telegraph company lost forty
 miles of wire and most of the poles. Reports
 are coming in from all parts of Ohio county
 this afternoon indicating that the
 storm was more disastrous to life and prop-
 erty in the country than in this city. It cannot be stated yet how many lives were
 lost. The loss in this city is known to be ten, with 8 number reported missing. Cald-
 wells Run. which passes through the Eighth ward of the city, wcs the scene of the great est havoc. Three houses were swept away
 and all the inmates were drowned. They
 were Mrs. Barbara Stenzel and son, MT.
 Herman Stenzel, Alice and Annie Wingert of Miltonsburg, Ohio, nieees of Mrs. Stem gel, John Homan and Mrs. Thomas Hawley and four children. Her husband was in the yard and was swept one hundred yards down the stream, but managed to reach the bank in safety. Only two bodies have been recovered, those of Alice Wingert and
 Mrs. Stenzel. Great damage is reported at
 these points being Mrs. Jane Fay and two
 daughters, William Gaston and wife, Mir.
 Caulbell and two young men named Bowman.
 Mrs. Johnson, widow, aged sixty years, re-
 siding at Clinton in this county, died from fright. A later dispatch says twenty three
 pers ons are known to be drowned. Among
 the number was the sheriff of Marshall
 county. Two cemeteries were washed out
 and the coffins with bodies foated down the river.
 A visit to the scenes of the flood shows
 that the work of destruction has been but
 feebly portrayed. Language cannot do jus
 tice to the ruin and desolation east of the city from Elm Grove almost to West Alexan-
 dria. The line of the Pittsburg division of
 the Baltimore and Ohio road will have to be practically rebuilt from Elm Grove to the
 Pennsylvania State line. Six large and costly bridges were weshed away and the track
 lifted from the road bed and twisted into all
 conceivable shapes for miles at 8 stretch. At some places it is impossible to discern where
 the road bed had been, while with the excep-
 tion of only an occasional gap on high and solid ground the entire bed is badly washed. Of course interest centers in the
 wreck of the Baltimore and Ohio | | Main street and the fatalities which attended
 that disaster. Several of those on the bridge
 were doubtless strangers in the city and their absence is not noticed. So far as can be known four men and three boys who were on the bridge when it went down have not since
 been heard from. The thirteen-year- old boy of Daniel Richie and a twelve-year-old boy named Eddie Hathaway are missing. The revised list of the persons who perished is as follows: Herman Stenzel, milkman, drownsd in his house on Caldwell run; Mrs. Barbara Stenzel, aged sixty-ive, widowed mother of Herman; Annie Wingard of Miltonsburg, O.,
 niece of Mrs. Stenzel, aged ten; Alice Win gard, sister of Annie; Mrs. Thos. Hawley and her children, three girls and one boy drowned in their house on Caldwelrs run; John Horan, drowned while attempting to rescue the Stenzel family raft; Mrs. Jane Flay and
 her daughters Alice and Belle, aged respec- lively twenty five and twenty one. Drowned AG 1IlAQeIpnlAr WlluRm dASLOn or 6Olut Mills, body recovered at Elm Grove. There is 8 report that the family of a man named Johnson near Clinton lost their lives, but this cannot be authenticated. The Stenzels and Miss Alice Wingard's bodies were found. The impossibility of. reaching the worst To- calities cannot be appreciated. The creek is still dangerously swollen. the roads are
 washed, bridges have caved in and telegraph and telephone wires are down.
 It is impossible to give any details of losses for the reason that those who suffered can not make an estimate, and every resident of the grounds suffered damage ranging from $100 to $10,0e0, while even those on tbe hills lost valuable crops, fences, etc. The B. and o. loss will reach $350, ,000 at & low es- timate. The oounty's loss in roads and bridges and schoolhouses will be at least $60,000. The Wheeling Natural Gas com pany lose $50,000, and the West Virginia
 Natural Gas company s60,0O0. The city on washes and bridges, s5,00O; P. c. 6 St. L.
 road, 2,500; Wheeling and Elm Grove, 10,000; Fl. c. Hunter, Philadelphia, $5, ,000; Frew & Bertschy, furniture dealers, this city, $3, 300; W. A. Mccoy, Philadelphia, on