Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-06-26
THE RAIN DESCENDED.


The rain came down on last Saturday
about as fast and about as much of it a;
We are accustomed to seeing. 1t did not
rain hard a little while and then cease
but with laudable perseverance kept VI
for hours a steady downpOur. 1t was re-
ported as local rain, but what it lost by
local in its nature, it made up by the en-
ergy with which it did its work. Begin,
ming early in the morning it kept it up
until the streets, cutters, runs and creeks
were full up aud overfiowing. Along the
creeks all crops in reach of the water
were totally destroyed. The water stretch
ed from hill to hill in many places, and
many promising fields of grain went
down in the gravel and mud. The rail
roads suffered somewhat, especially the
st. Clairsyille branch of the Baltimore
and Ohio. This was blocked by land
slide, and also had the ballast washed
from under the track for considerable
distance. Men were Immediately put TO
work to put it in shape again, and had
about completed their work when the
rain of Sunday afternoon more than un-
did the work, taking out bridge near
| Buffers coal Works By Tuesday morn
| ing the trains were able to resume their
regular trips. West of Barnesville the
Baltimore and Ohio was washed out and
trains delayed for several hours. The
Cleveland and Pittsburgh had landslide
at West Wheeling, and all roads were
knocked out of time either by landsIides
or high water.
Along Saltwater Creek the damage
was more severe than elsewhere, and the
crops are totally destroyed wide
sheet of water was alone to be seen from
one end of the creek to the other, and
was higher than ever before known. The
loss to the farmers cannot be estimated.
After the water had disappeared the hot
sun cooked what had been under water
for two days.
In many places small bridges and fenc-
es were carried away, and much small
damage done. Corn fields on the uplands
were badly washed, and withal it was
very damaging storm, the rain of Sunday
afternoon almost equalling the one of
Saturday.
At GAINESVILLE tobacco house on the
lands of the late I. G. Parker was wreck
ed by lightning. The character of the
storm near Uniontown is described by
hat t,,la iS
estimated that eight inches of rain fell
in the forty eight hours from midnight
on Friday night to midnight ON Sun
day night.
RoBINsON'S show boat mOored at New
Cumberland, up the river, on Wednesday
morning of last week and over the craft |
the stars and bars of the rebel flag float |
ed. The news of the same spread about |
town, and in an hour the greatest excite
ment prevailed over the insult to the ma
tional colOrs. A number of old men who
wore the blue were sufficiently enraged |
to fire on the offensive emblem. The pa
triotic spirit of the Jr. o. U. A. NJ was
aroused also. A committee of officials
waited upon the management of the boat,
and requested him to haul down the
flags and put up the red, white and blue,
but he emphatically refused, saying that
he had the privilege to make the display,
as he displays the flags of all the nations
also. After long discussion he finally
put up small flag of the national cOlOrs.
The people at once instituted boycott
on the show, and at the afternoon per-
very slim crowd was in at
and in the evening no perform
ance was held, there being no crowd.