The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-06-03


ut his wife and three children we
ie drowned. His store was carried OF, al
ID he has lost everything he had in Il
y, world, Mr., KiFlend was very mul
rs detected, and his heart saddened.
re More than once he wished he h
gone down with his family, He !
s. covered the bodies Of two Of his CHI
y dIep,
HER NINE CHILDREN LOST,
III Mrs, Boyle, the woman saved at Loc
i. port, and who lost nine children, Is sai
|, to be rayIng mad. She continually cal
I for her dead children and cannot
comiorted.
u Mr., Kerlind claims that the peopl
were not notified that a break In th
!, Edam was expected, His little baby W.
= strangled In his arms, and his boy W.
3 drowned, while he was powerless 10 saw
either, and only escaped himself by
; miracle,
3 John Diebert's fine brick house Is sal
TO have collapsed with the family in Il
;; and II Is supposed they are all lost, al
the houses on Walnut street were wash
ed away, and person can see from thl
Ecorner OF Walnut to the stone Methods
'tchurch, There isn't a house, either, OF
Maple avenue.
THE sADEsT scRNRs EVER WITNESSED.
A correspondents who travelled owe
the district gives the following accoun
OF some Of the scenes he witnessed:
The road / Travelled over the noun
talns this morning is at best only a trail
through dense forests. met no les
than q score Of crazed women and broken,
hearted men, trudging across the noun,
tains In the hope Of reaching Florence
or Bolivar, to find their missing ones,
dead or alive. Their questions about
bodies and rescued people were agon,
king, but they prepared me for worse 10
come.
Sunshine never once dispersed the
clouds in the mountain country to-day,
II was high noon when, descending the
eastern slope, Morrelville was seen In
the distance. That is one OF the subur.
ban wards Of Johnstown. 1t was not q
pretty view.
Ordinarily 1t would have been an arena
OF hills, wavy In their alternating lines
OF pine, tlr and hemlock boughs, that
wreathed the white, trim houses OF
Moorevllle around about, but the clouds
dropped their mist OF melancholy upon
the Landscape.
There was something about II all that
even amile away impressed one with q
sense Of indescribable sadness. Draw.
ing nearer, l hailed stalwart fellow
who was listlessly carrying a bundle OF
clothes under his arm. He kindly gave
mo the deslred information, and then 1
asked him II he knew OF any casualties.
hesame sense ofsadness that the clouds
overhead inspired hovered about the
mans answer
soME oP THE SoRRowPUL SToRIRs.
II might tell you Of my own," he re.
piled, "Aly name is Gabriel Fleck. My
boy, aged l2 years, my wiie's mother,
and my three sisters.in.law were all
drowned before my eyes. But there is
still a merciful God in heaven, for he
has spared me my wife,
] went little farther. John D. Jones,
q former policeman, spurred horse in
the opposite direction. Something In.
spired me to speak to him, too. MY In.
quiry brought back the piteous reply:
W and q little son are all who are alive
OF family OF fourteen. l saw most OF
them go down."
It was still a quarter Of a mile to Nor
relyille. But here was the next testi-
mony, heard from garden gate "a
friend Of mine, W.s. Weaver, q promi.
pent contectioner, was saved by us, but
twenty Of his nearest relatives arc oil
lost"
on TIE SCENE,
In Morrelville at last. "You want
news, do you2" remarked pale.iaced
young woman. "Go there to Youngs
livery stable and look upstairs" Ibid
SO. There, In a long barn Of hall,
were grouped some 80 people-men,
women and children. They were
wounded from battles with the debris,
or sick from exposure. Some were lying
down, others sat up, while very few
limped about. A single country sur
geon labored among them. II was an
fmproyised hospital TO make city doc
tor weep. i.
Over in. Johnstown proper It was
found that another hospital had been
formed in the Parks Opera House.
Thirty.three homeless people were
housed there. One OF these, Edward
Fisher, o young man, tried 70 commit
suicide three times during the previous
night, because Of grief over the drown
Ing Of his parents and sisters.
a HOTEL FULL OF FEoPLE DROWNED.
When the Hurlhurt House fell In, 1t
is said that tltty.three guests were
within It's walls. All were drowned ex-
cept seven. The proprietor, Frank Bent
ford, was saved.
Mr.. John Lowman, one Of the promi.
nent doctors here, was drowned. He
was one oi the earliest surgeons to advo.
cate the system OF immediate amputa.
tion, and his loss is blow to science,
hp having been practicipg both surgery
and medicine In this country for over
fifty yeara.
Chief Harris, Of the police depart.
ment, saved himself and smallest child
by climbing out on the roof Of neigh.
boris house. His wife and eight children
In attempting to follow were all lost,
| II is simply impossible 10 attempt 10
count up the number OF the dead. Peo.
have gotten accustomed to estimating
the missing by the amount Of population
III the districts where loss Of life was
heaviest, This Is the way the number
reaches a thousand or more. Still, many
Of the missing are known 10 have been
rescued alive below.
PLANES AND FLOOD.
Fire was added To the terror Of The
food last night, and many, perhaps hgn;
drods, Of persons, swept down from
points aboye, perlShOd within sight o.
tho shore at the big stone bridge Of the
Pennsylvania railroad. Their cries and
groans could be heard from the shore all
last night by crowds who were attempt
Ing 70 aid them. From East Conemaugt
hundreds Of houses were Washed away
and lodged against tile bridge. Perhaps
tlte 10 stove In ono Of the houses start