The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-06-03
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not with its load Of eager passengers.
They were no Idle travellers, but each
had q mission,
Here and there men were staring QUE
the windows with red eyes, and among
them were HungaFilns and Italians
who had lost friends near NineYehi
while women were weeping ON al Aaes,
Just before reaching Sang HOLLOW, the
end OF the main line OF tho Pennsyl wanna
Railroad, Is a signal tower, and the men
In It told stories OF what they saw, Here
are some odds and ends OF happenings
they told me Of:
A beautiful girl came down on the
roof Of a building, which was swung IN
near the tower, She screamed TO the
operators to save her, and one pig,
brawny brave fellow walked as iar into
the river as he could, and shouted 70
her TO try and guide herself into shore
with abit of plank, She was
APLU0EY GIRL, n
full OF nerve and energy, and stood upon
her frail supportin evident obedience 70
the command Of the operator shemade
two or three bold strokes and actually
stopped the course OF the raft for an in.
slant. Then it swerved and went out
from under her, She tried TO swim
ashore, but in q few seconds she was lost
in the swirling water,
Something hit her, for she lay quietly
on her back, with face pallid and ex'
pressionless, Men and women In dozens,
In pairs and slngly, children, boys, big
and little, wee babies were there, in
among the awful confusion Of water,
drowning, gasping, struggling and fight
ing desperately for life, Two men on Q
tiny raft shot into the swiftest part OF the
current.
They crouChed, stolldly looking at the
shores, while between them dressed In
white, and kneeIingwith her face turned
heayenward, was a girl six or seven
years old, She seemed stricken with
paralysis until she came opposite the
lower mud then she turned her face to
the operators. She was 80 close they
could see big tears on her cheeks and
her pallor was as death.
TmR HELPLESS MEN ON SHORE
shouted to her to keep up her courage,
and she resumed her deyout attitude
and disappeared under the trees OF a
projecting point a short distance below.
1--WE could not see her come out again"
said the operator, and that was all Of 1t
"Do you see that fringe OF treesH
said the operator, pointing to tho place
where the little girl had gone out Of
sight; "well, we saw scores OF children
swept in there. believe that when the
time comes they will find almost q hun
dred bodies Of children in there among
those bushes
Just above New Florence is the little
town Of Nlnevah. II was here | found
the first charnel house. One hundred
and nine dead were here, the larger pro-
portion oil whom were women. Here II
was that the awful work OF the freshet
could be realized, What have been fer
tile farms look like worn out brick yards.
Great trees have been twisted and torn
like weeds, and the broken household
goods OF hundreds OF families line the
shores for miles.
THIEVES or THE yILEsT SORT,
those who steal from the dead and the
unfortunate, have been busily at work
robbing the trunks, boxes, articles Of
furniture, and there Is nothing worth
taking except lumber. Every now
and then CHASTITY outlines could be
seen in the water being swept down
stream.
tower OF the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company, and here it Is that the great
est railroad in the world ends suddenly
in the river, For more thpr a thousand
feet the entire track Ia wiped out, rails,
ties, and even ballast. The north track
is entirely washed away,
This is the nearest telegraphic point
10 Jolnstown on this side, and the de-
lay In getting off news dispatches has
been fairly maddenlng. r