Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1890-09-07
DIRE RUM0R.
LAST NIGHTS SENSATION THAT CAME TO
NAUGHT.
How Everyone Thought the B. & 0. Were Laying
Their Double Track on Sixteenth
Street and the Tragic SceneO
the Officers

This morning shortly after midnight
Wheeling was all agog over what looked
IN he a rank Wrestling of the city's property
by an octopustic combine. a report
reached the police headquarters that
band of Italians had secretly arrived IN the
citv. and under daring leader, were pro
ceedinp 10 carry on the work Of laying the
much talked-of double track on Sixteenth
street according to the dictates OF the b. "
O. road.
The rumor soon reached up town, and for
a while dire threats rent the air. Coulu IL
be possible that the B. " y. road without
permission or authority OF any KIND woulu
Tins 90 defantly TO work in the dead oil
night on a grand work Of trespass: These
and a hundred other observations were
heard up and down the street. People who
were M ran heller and SHELTER, and every
thing looked for a while as though the big
pest sensation of the hour was on the pro
gramme. Onicer Carney rushed up
ON Main street 10 the corner
of Market street and alley Q to call up /.
NJ Darrah. Clerk of the Board OF Puohc
Works. TO see what could be done about 1t.
He was unsuccessful in arOuslng the clerk,
and the officer proceeded back to the sta
ton. In the meantime crowds at the
junction of Main and Sixteenth streets
kept growing larger and larger, ana sun
wondered and reasoned. Sure enough
there were the men, some fifty Italians,
and a vigorous leader. all working like
Troians Crow-bars were being piled as
though by machinery. stones were being
taken up and piled right and left, and alto
gether il looked like the carrying on of
some great work of devastation. Young
sters fitted here and there with lurid
torches, adding to the spectral and mystic
rious scene.
Injuries of the boss of the crew elected
nothing definite He didn't know how
many men he had working, what he was
doing. or when he was going TO get IL done.
And these unsatisfactory answers made
the case seem all the more dark and mys-
FERROUS
"Whv don't they arrest themr' well,
that road has rot cheek Never mind
they'll have to pay heavy damages for
this. were the hundred and one eXcla-
nations that filled the air. While
the crowd. which kept growing rapidly,
was watching the apparent depredauons
with fixed and eager interest, Lieutenant
Frohme and Officer Carney suddenly APP
peared on the scene. Lieutenant Frohme
rushed into the heat of the IN
dustrial hum, and with tragic wave
of the hand like the villain in the
second act OF 'hll, Tue ALhdHSdW L ldNNA
ler.- dramatically ordered the men TO stop
work and leave the premises. For mo
ment you could hear the ticking in the REC
1SrER reporters Swiss watch; then came
change.
The boss of the crew suddenly pulled
out of his pocket paper
wherein it was stated that
Paige, Carey x Co had recently been
granted permission by the Board of Public
Works to lay a switch from the B. Il o.
track to their stone yard in order to more
get in the stone for the new
Main street bridge This knocked the
sensation right square in the head, and
the audible smile that went up from the
crowd could be heard almost to the suspen-
sion bridge
While the permit had been granted still
there were few who were aware the work
was to commence at that hour, and Just why
the work was begun this morning was not
learned.