The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-03-29

was holding u meeting on the same ilot
with us. A German band was rchear
ing on the second story and n party
decorators were Mt work in tho large hn
on that floor preparing for some entc
tainment.
$50 far rs could Judge when ] In
succeeded In escaping there were le.
than dozen all,iold who got out III
hurt, and tho cries for help and groan
that issued from tho broken and twiste
heap was proof that scores were sti
there unable to escape"
THE NIGHT REPORT.
Market street this evening looks lik
a ruined village. The devastation o.
this thoroughfare is nearly complete
The following Is nearly Il complete lis
Of the wrecked buildings on Marke
street alone:
At No. 00l, roof and upper story ar
of; 00G, W. Eben, shoes, badly dam
aged, no one hurt; 0lO, wife Bros, mca
dealers, had loss, family escaped; Ola
J. 4. Gchlse, sltoc store, roof torn OIL
no person injured; 020, tobacco factory
kremelberg 4 Co., ruined; 800, B. &
liersch, dry goods, root oil; %.
to $50, stores and residences, roof
torn cH, and iii iaauy cases wall.
crushed In, many narrow escapes
but no loss Of life. &. W. Becker, gro
Ger, 1000 West Market, house tota
wreck, family safe; 1902, A. Moss &
Son, ctiinaware house. ruined; 1901, b
Goldsmith, dry goods, badly damaged
lOOG, Muller Bros, teas and cotiees
houses all down, family safe; zoos
Isaac Staugh!on, furnishing goods, com.
plote wreck; 1910. NJ. Cohen, merchant
tailor, house utterly demolished, family
safe; lois, Montgomery 4 Bailey, candy
factory, house demolished in rear; lOi(
and 1912, F. NJ. Heineg, chinawarc
houso ruined. entirely blown into the
street; ll04, Great Atlantic and Pacific
Tea Company on tho ground floor
Jerome B. Curran and Frank Stiggei
above, building wrecked; occupants
reached by ladders after the front wall
had been blown out, Mrs. Stiggcr hurt;
No. ll03, s. lludbuch & Bro, wall pnpei
establishment, whole place in ruins;
:he buildings from 100 to llOS Wes,
Market street, belong to Il. shciman, and
hey arc nearly complete loss
lll2, Hoffman 4 Louis Whitman res.
dencc, ruined, Mrs. Whitman probably
|atally injured; lloo, L. Sims, jr., hat.
;cr, house smashed to fragments, two
II tho Sims children killed and Mra,
Sims badly injured; 1l9S and 1850
Falls City Hall, and +. ]. scheon,
4 Son, a total wreck, with loss OF life
up in the hundreds; resi-.
fences and stores from 1852 to lbs badly
damaged, but no loss of life; Nos. ali
md llG, Eleventh street, escaped with
ont slight injury; AIS Eleventh street,
ruined; 43i, Moses iiundley
md family, smashed to splinters, no one
injured. A number OF other stores and
residences on this street had the roofs
:orn of and the walls blown in, but so
ar as learned no Toss of life.
Tho immense iron foundry OF Aims.
zee, Cochran 4 Co., was completely
'azed to the ground, the rear wall alone
standing.
rr,p,mr nrsr,,,cr,,,
ri,
Inc storm seemed only to have swept
Broadway from Eighteenth to Nine
.eenth, but nearly all the houses on
hese streets, and on the intersectinp
treets were demolished, Most of the
cs ssc,nnd p;th,,u, uIs wv ,iau;e on''o
Eron, f f;;,aant,, % ~ c;..."n4.i %?sloua 'Jal'es.
avail hn,Soa " ,'sMsev.l, su. nie lnus.-
n families The | rooSI yuro woro ~ ~ uotT1 nr
,ut no.,a great amount of fla,nape was
lone and none Of the occupants were
lnf!. IT,, c;.E, r
,owever the drstrnct;nr ,ras MntseenI tsreihla
'Ir. Peter spcth and family, who live at
COB had a narrow escape. Tho build
ng and furniture is total wreck.
is the residence OF Mrs.
Welsh. 1t was literally demolished, but
he members Of the family escaped.
The loss will be 5000.
Mrs.G. Johnson Grownlived at No.1Gl7,
Ter house received the full force OF the
irst terrible gust and the walls hent and
:rumblcd like SO much paper. Airs.
Brown was seriously injured.
The Catholic buildings at Seventeenth
md Broadway were tue sisters home,
.he parochlal school, Father Disney's
.csidence and the Sacred Heart Church.
They were all blown down and Sister
Plus was buried in the ruins. Shortly
litter when taken out by rescuing
party she was dead. All OF the other
sisters escaped without injury.
WORSE AND WORSE. +
Tha rss;derc. of Ma,,hor za,,,or =,
1.o .s''uo..I ~ " "'u," "s'''e'' ~
lI4' was partially damaged IN the rear
Major Gait, Of the Louisville 4 Nash.
Vile and his family. who lived in q
mo s.or,, ,,r;o,. hon.a ,,oua a:.,;a. >:
w. n"tn;s, o. n raon, us ,ra, w. 1.::s ~
~ ~ ups.;,s pna; 'oS S.;, "neu .Io ens pI..ulhs W.
San ausN NY, ;a tI' ."ey "ppIHneIueu nc
"i1sea,r " ~ o ,rai, LIZ IIy oeio'lls
qus. sne mS'.s .e.. upon ssae
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" y' yho ui banoo s "o IL WIS sst,onsiy
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,snsrell Nv u"rsn'ea ,a;hhnrs aSt years. "nu 'aes
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,;,tin hashar r sSon %vo i f'G"e' I"h ,n'o 't
1eo" pp"aJc, ,Ju. svp eu ta Joan su'Ivr ~
NV roof torn tho he saoa OUTS.
carr;eJ % awav nnd tho ssI sds seS wals sso,