The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-04-23
Qhe Smtelliqenter.
once ! No.. % and y Fourteenth streot.
THROUGH TILE STATE
Accidents and Incidsnts in West virginia
md Vicinity.


The Free Will Baptists will build
church at Grafton.
Out in Tucker county, according to tn,
Democrat, Sunday is the busiest day II
the week. Transfers are hauling logs
the merchants keep open stores, and thu
saloons do u rushing business.
The spectacle Of young woman Civ
ing sound thrashing TO young mar
whom she caught keeping company witt
her sister, was one OF the episodes in thu
east end Of Grafton few days ago.
A large black bear has been commit
ting numerous depredations in the vi
cinity OF Point Mountain. 1t has beer
seen for several years in that neighbor'
hood, but so far all efforts TO capture his
bearship is futile Us he is very sly bru'
in.
While Mrs. Annie Summerville, Of
Roaue county, was receiving eongratula-
tons Friday night on her Goth birthday
she fell dead. This so shocked her
daughter, Mrs. Lewis Compton, that she
fell at her mothers side and died in ten
minutes.
! Thursday morning as u Cumberland
and Pennsylvania railroad freight train
was descending one OF the grades, Charles
Aldridge, brakeman, was thrown or
fell under the wheels, which passed
over him, severing both legs from his
body. The unfortunate young man was
taken to his home ut Mt. Savage, where
he died before evening. He was recent.
ly married.
The Fairm0nt {ndc6 says: Last Mon
day morning the large belt which turns
the drum ut CASTOR mines was found cut
into several pieces, and n further eXami.
nation revealed the tact that general
wreck OF the engine, machinery &C., at
the mouth of the mine had been contem-
plated. This was intended to be accom-.
plished sby exploding the boiler, and
with that object in view, the water had
been almost entirely drawn from the
boiler, the water gauge plugged up and
the glass filed to indicate sufficient
supply OF water; the safety-valve also
was heavily weighted and necessary parts
OF the pump disconnected. Fortunately
the cut belt induced the workmen to
make a general examination OF the ma
chinery, and the exact condition OF the
boiler was discovered in time toprevent
an accident. Had the perpetrators OF
this5 piece of villainys succeeded in
their purpose it is certain that several
lives would have been lost and much
property destroyed.
A short time since a phenomenon
occurred on the head OF Gnatty Greek,
Upshur county, which has excited con-
siderable comment. After one rainy
night certain men OF the neighborhood
discovered that the earth, near the top
of high hill, covering an area OF about
Il quarter of an acre, was washed out, in
basin shape, five feet deep or more, rs II
barrels OF water had descended stimuli
taneously upon the spot. Near the basin
is ravine through which alittle stream,
perhaps twelve inches in depth, winds
its way to the creek. Down this ravine
the flood had rushed like an avalanche,
rising to full five feet in height and
twelve feet in breadth, floating logs that
had lain there for many years, among
them one log thirty feet in length, and
two and half feet in thickness. 1t is
said that it would have required four
horse team to have moved it; and rocks
which men say could not have been
moved by the strength OF us many men
MS could have taken hold Of them were
swept down the ravine and piled like SO
many chunks OF wood. Locust saplings
on the sides OF the 'ravine were broken
oil, and banks OF sand and clay were
washed to the sides OF the ravine by the
food on its way to the creek, which was
suddenly raised to remarkable height.
The flood occurred at night.
A correspondent writing to the Green
brier Independent from Scwell Station,
Fayette county, gives the following ac-
count OF the thrilling experience OF Mr..
Orvillc Turner and family on the night
of the wind storm that passed over that
section on the 9TH inst: A large spruce
pine tree was blown on Mr., Turner's
house, striking it ut the gable-end di-
rectly on the comb, knocking the roof
and upper story TO splinters, and land
ing on the first floor. Although there
were ten inmates, every one escaped un-
injured, Almost everything in the house
was demolished. One Bishop, shoe
maker from Hinton, made the closest
call. He was sleeping in the second
story, and the side OF his bed was struck
by the tree and knocked to the lower
story, leaving him ono side OF the bed to
lie on, with the rafters and upper ioists
extending over him-one end OF the
rafters and joists resting on the top OF
the wall and the other end under the
tree in the lower story. Mrs. Turner,
who had babe ten days old, in her
fright, jumped from her bed and ran
through the storm in her night.clothes
and bare feet, some two hundred yards,
to neighbours, carrying her babe with
her. Strange TO say, she has suffered no
i'll results from her midnight race. Taken
all together, this escape Of so many per
sons from SO eminent n danger is
marvellous one.