The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-07-22
The Flood
REPORTS GROW SERIOUS,
The Destruction and Loss of Life
Greater than First Supposed.
Hundreds Of Families Destitute
in the Four Afflicted
Counties.
NEED OF IMMEDIATE AID,
An Entire Village Swept Away in
Writ County, and Hundreds
or Farmcrs aud Mmy Merchants In
Wood, Writ, Iiraxton aud Jackson
Iosc All Their Crops aud
Stocks-Tflc Money Loss
CanuOt he Estimated.

s1cicl M,peich m@f mteligcnotr.
PAWgGpsnrw, W. Va, July 9l.-The
reporls Of the destruction wrought by
III. cloud hurst in this valley are grow
inc more serious instead Of less. News
hns leen received from all parts Of Wood
conuly and from Writ county, and the
nlIlirlion proves to be lar worse than
WINS at ilrSt dreamed Of. The County
Commissioners estimate that tho loss In
this county alone will reach five hun
Jred thousand dollars. Nearly all oi
this is on the south side OF the Little
KanawIa river The farmers living on
Lee creek, Slate creek, Big Tygart creek
and Pond creek have lost nearly oil OF
their possessions.
A meeting il talked OF to be held to-
,mtuw night at the Court House to dis
rnss plans Of relief. County Commis'
sionef Bcckwith thinks that u call for
Md should be made 10 the country at
nrpc, and this will probably be done, us
Innny families in this and Writ county
are entirely without anything on which
tOsnbsst,
\ VILLAGE DESTROYED.
A telephone message late this evening
Im ~ Elizabeth says that the village Of
Moyristown il entirely destroyed. Eight
dwelling houses, two stores, tho Baptist
church, tobacco packing house and
otler buildngs arc gone. The loss in
tllnt nrighbOrhOOd is estimated at $2O,-
GOO, Morrislown is on fuckers creek,
aud there is not u family on that creek
which is not in urgent need OF imme-
diate assistance. Seven lives were lost
on fuckers creek. They arc Orville
Vests wife and two children, John
Bailey, ind Ray Higer and his wife and
another person. John Hughes vile
and four children, living on the head
Oi the creek, were drowned, Mr.. Hughes
cAaping. The other deaths were Mrs.
Isaac Roberts, Edward Baso and Mrs.
Isaiah Tucker, all in this county. The
body Of Mrs. Tucker was found this
morning ut II o'clock at Harris Ferry.
SEARCHING FOR TIE BODIES.
1t is said that two hundred people
were searching on Tucker creek to-day
for tile bodies Of the seven victims OF
that streams fury. Four of them have
been found aud buried, aud possibly the
others have been found by this evening.
NJ. Hartman, u well known timber man,
came down to-day from Burning Springs
in u skill, Il distance OF lorty.two miles,
in five hours. twas daring and reck-
VGss adventure.
Orville West, whose family were
drowned, made heroic effort 10 save
them. lie iloated with them four miles
down Tucker creek trying TO get them
TO shore, but they were carried away
from him.
James Roberts, whose mother was
drowned, tried to save her by carrying
her from the floating house to the shore,
but hC fell and she was swept away. HC
ilad already saved the two small chill
Iren.
NAVIGATION SUSPENDED
Navigation will be suspended for q
good while because OF the break in lock
No. on the Little Kanawha, and the
up river people will have no communi.
cation with the outside world. How
badly tho lock is damaged cannot DO told
1intil the river falls.
The timber men arc catching more Of
their logs andthrl loss will not be very
heavy. The county commissioners will
make an examinations tomorrow OF the
losscsand damages in this county. They
will have to rebuild al once the county
bridges, which will require not less than
twenty thousand dollars.
No damage was done TO the city oI
Parkcrsburg. The cloud burst occurred
on Limestone Hill, this county, where
Lee, Iaggart Pond, Slate and fuckers
creeks have u common source.
la full report Of the disaster will bC
found on lliPI nnvo nj Ihiu ,unsptut,i,