The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-08-24

should be ornamental US well rs useful.
THE STATE PAIR ALL RIGHT.
BY some means, either from false re-
port or imagination, the people in the
surroundingcountry have the impression
that the West Virginia Exposition and
State Fair will not be held At Wheeling
next.week. Numerous kilograms and tele-
phone messages were sent to Secretary
Hook yesterday making inquiry as 10
the truth OF rumors OF damage done TO
the grounds. To all these inquiries the
reply has been that absolutely no dam
age has been done TO the grounds. The
flood did not interfere with them in the
least.
The grounds are dry, and were never
in better condition. The entries and
exhibits poured into the grounds all day
yesterday. The track was worked in the
morning, andspeed horses spent the en-
tire day on the track in training for the
races next week. The grounds were
filled in manner with men erecting
booths and exhibitors decorating their
spaces and making preparations for next
week.
There are over seventy speed entries
made aside from the running races, in
which entries do not close untilthe 9th
inst.
A dry week is all that is needed to In
sure the grandest show ever seen on the
Island. People walked all over the
grounds yesterday without soiiing their
shoes, and the flood scare was without
any foundation in fact.
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less or malicious persons circulated sim
liar reports. The July flood had no
more effect on the State Fair grounds
than on the top OF the Rocky mountains,
and the high water yesterday did no
harm, as it did not reach the grounds.
THE RIVER.
The river was an object OF interest
yesterday while at itsshighest. Crowds
OF sight-seers aocked all along the
banks all day. The waters rose till
noon, when they reached so feet. They
then stood still till about o'clock, when
they began to reCede slowly, and kept
falling till midnight, when they were
going down rapidly, but still marked 30
feet.
At their highest stage the waters
covered the low bottom lands along the
river and backed into the small creeks
and streams. The bottom lands were
flooded to depth OF from four to six
feet. The corn crop is almost total
loss, and the prospects for large yield
were never better than this year. About
| 1000 acres in corn will be more or loss
damaged along the river in this vicinity.
Men were rowing about in the river
yesterday gathering in logs and timber,
and all sorts Of wreckage worth saving.
The lot south oil the west approach to
the Suspension bridge where the tent
shows exhibit, and the low lands in the
rear OF the houses OH North Front street,
were flooded. On the west side OF the
Island the waters covered the low ground
west of the State Fair Ground. On the
South Side and out the creek the lower
bottoms were converted into lagoons.
Nowhere was any damage done ex-
cept on the river front in the Eighth
ward, where section Of
THE OHIO RIVER RAILROAD TREsTLE,
weakened by the two recent floods,
gave way and let the track collapse. The
tIAlHS I'LL HiIu " COulc up VI GlC DuILl-
more & Ohio track in the after part OF
the day.
The Pittsburgh Dispatch gives this
view OF the wreck from that end OF the
line: The Wheeling division of the Bal.
timore & Ohio is badly wrecked. From
eight to ten bridges were washed out
between Pittsburgh and the Nail City.
The road bed beyond that point to
Wheeling is completely gone, and the
line is in much worse condition than it
was after the late Wheeling flood. Two
land slides ut Watsontown and No. 5
tunnel also occurred. 1t will take not
less than n week before the tracks can
possibly be relaid, 1t was expected the
trains will be running us lar as Wheel
ing in day or two.
The Baltimore & Ohio had just spent
500, 900 in repairing the division. The
loss to the company will not be less
than S350,000. Late yesterday afternoon
the wires between West Alexander and
Wheeling had not been replaced, and
only the most meagre accounts of the
damages done to the road between these
two places could be obtained.