The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-01-10
DISASTROUS Wind STORM
Does a Good Deal Of Damage h
the City and Vicinity,
SEVERAL HOUSES INJURED,
chImneys, Trees and Fences Demol'
ished, and buildings unroofed.
Tho Rack River Bridge aud
u Glass House surcr,

Between II o'clock and noon yesteF'
day, the heaviest wind storm expert.
enced here in many years ragged over
and through the city and peighborhOod,
There seemed to be three separate gales
Of ten minutes or SO duration each, with
intervals when the wind blew less
tiercely, though still much stronger than
ordinarily, Houses were damaged, build,
inEs unrOofel, trees snapped off or de-
nuded Of their limbs, telegraph poles
blown down, fences demolished, chin,
neys thrown down, and while the dam,
gage in Roindlvidual case is very heavy,
II Is In the aggregate u considerable loss,
With Wheelng's proyerbial good for
tune, she escaped the loss OF life, or in
Jury to any human being. There were
some rather narrow escapes, and but for
the fact that none OF the Bridgeport cars
were on the Suspension bridge at the
height OF the storm, there would have
been O. casualty, An east bound car
reached the bridge Just as the gale struck
" and the driver wisely turned back.
Pedestrians also shunned II forthe time,
and all the vehicles gotolE, Eyenwhen
the wind was not hardest The briIoe rose
and sank aud swayed in a way to make
a land.lubber sea.sick. The bTidge stood
1t like u spring breeze, though.
The wooden bridge over tie back river
lost a section Of the sheot.,ron roof ahont
sixty feet SQUARE, The bridge sIrncture
was not even shaken. The loss will not
exceed $50.
About sixty feet of the yentilator on
the roof OF the North Wheeling glass
house was blown off and scattered far
and wide.
Probably the most serioussinele piece
OF damage was the blowing III Of the
west gable OF n substantial brick house
OF one story on Nineteenth street, lust
across the creek from the Whitaker
mill, belonging to d, r. Brooks.
The bricks were blown into the
attic, and crashed through the Cuilin. Of
the room beneath. Fortunately nobody
was beneath. The house was occupied
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