The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-12-19
Some Scenes and Happenings
About Town Yesterday.
TRAVEL IS BADLY DELAYED
The Telegraph and Telephone scr.
vice Not Yet KestOrrd.-.IIrayl
sno" Fail la the Country.
The Nail. All Delayed.

under the cHIstirg difficulties.
! People weto OUT scnpiug sidewalks
and cleaning cf-ssing3 At an early hour
The sno" wAs packed 80 harL tia. i. sAJ
10 be cut with hatchets before Il could
be sc'apeL of. Soms people on p,omi
nent stFecH neglected to clean theiI
paYements, and il Was general and
emphatic expression all over town that
| the ofiiusnCe requiring the SNOW to be
CLEANED OFT should be TigidIy enforced
Tbs GruA! eGpGnsu Of pavement abOu,
the City's end Of the Public Buildiny VA.
sCr1ped by SorkhOuse prisoners. A
great many people turned the hose on
Their sld-Halks. This not only clraEed
them thoroughly, bat melted the snow
30 that IL ian Oh through the sewers in.
sieRt OF TemliuiGS in grea, ridges along
the curb.
II would bs good idea to get out a lot
oil cArta and haul the piles ui SHOW off
The si'eetd and dump them into the
creek or river.
Tbs children ha1l0ts Of tur Yesterday.
The snow was Just righ. for snoS Sbl!1jnr
"t making sn0" meu, and the R!r vas
pleasantly cool. The bright Gun on the
snow was little EaTd on weak ryes, but
the Etonnd and snow-clad trees present.
cd a sight ot rare sp!endor.
AAEING THE STREETS rAssApLE.
The Board OF Public Works put uan
to work yesterday and in = short ,ime
had many OF the principal crossings ,:sss.
able WIKI coinsoft, stmpiy showing how
easy II would have been 10 10 the sIulr
thing the day before.
ln places where four crossings had TO
oe cleaned oil the mountains of SNOW
piled up lrft Only narrow passage ways
iOr the sl:cet clsg and other vehicles
At come ci these places there were fT,.
iueut bIockades 0! Wagons, carripprs
| sIetgls, sheds aad care, and when Ih.
cars ran little slowly, rs they often did.
The embarrassments oithe tituation were
increased.
All over town yesterday people were
engsged in throwing snow oil rooIs. In
some places the Huow wRs pilpd IN II,
tue street irOin the BiduTalkS and ;oo(s
l!ll the street was impaEsablr. tone
place man luadu Il miE:hruT Of n
snoyeliuIl oi SNOW and il fell iair on.he
head oil man passing on tie street with
a lady,
Every time 4 fellow Soss into the
| posIoiice now he ia remiudrd Of THE
| Way the Waters come down nj
demonstrating and spiashing and
clashiRg." \ solid row Of little rivGIets
runs down at the Market s:reet front,
making II very unpleasant TO enter or
leave the building.
Tho sleds and sleighs were not nu.
mesops yesieIdAy, though some were
out. This sleighing in town was tough.
a ROOF FALLS IS.
Early yesterday morning the portion
ol the roof OF the shed in the rear OF the
Mark Twain saloCn, which did not fall
the night before, being supported Ly
partition, gave way under the pccumn!a.
tioH Of snow and fell in. Mr. Van
keUreu, the painter, occupied this part
OF the shed III shop and store room.
Everything he had in it was covered or
crushed, aud the job OF saving anvthinp
from the wreck WAS hard work. Ladders.
boards, tTes.les, paints and all were one
confused mass Ul debris.
Over in Ohio Nrd out east OF the city
the saoT waa much deeper than in
town, and on exposed parts OF the roads
the drifts prevented travel. Oat the
Cadiz pike ilve or six wagons were
caught and had to be lei, there, and the
horses nnhitcheI and put in convenient
barns. il was hard work 10 break the
roads.
The broken pole on the Island. at the
Tcst end OF the suspension bridge, was
replaced by new one By the telephone
company Yesterday, and two new poles
have been placei at Twelfth and Msfket
streets. The work OF repairing the de.
stroycd wires was pushed Yesterday, but
it will necessarily be Mt least week be.
lore the 900 odd instruments now Gu. out
can be in service again. The company
has suffered pretty seyeFaiiy this year,
considering the results oil the ire and
the blizzard together.
The Telegraph service was also rapidly
repaired yesterday, and will be NIL right
in few days,
| INK NAILS ALL OUT OF WHAGK-
Train No. s, on the B. ( o., John
Cummirs. engineer, was delayed five
hours near Grafton by the tender jump.
ing the track owing to broken axle.
80 one was hurt. A. other trains were
badly delayed.
\ land slide on the Chic River road
below Parkershurg made 1t necessary
for oil trains to transfer al that point.
Train No. >, due here at 3:j5 p. III. did
not arrive Till p. III and No. t, due 4,
$40 got in about $50 p. IN.
Trans on the BAl,imore.tI Ohio rail-
road are still badly out Of time and mails
have been delayed so that their ar1iva!
could not be predicted.
Train No. l05 from the east over the
Hempfeld division, due here at 1880
"Wednesday evening, got in at i0a. IN.
yesterday. Trains Nos. q and l0G due
at $40 and $50 a. IN. respectively, from
the vest, got in together at ( 20 q. m.
Trains Nos. 7, due 3, S:15 a. M. aud l2.45
p. N. from Washington, got in al $3.50
p. NJ. There has been no train in on the
Hempdeld but No. lQj, which got in at
9 a. IN. The ttainmen report that the
isnow at Finieyvitie was seven feet deep
and that they had TO shovel through it.
1t was thrown OF to the sides and slip.
ped back onto the track when the
train passed, and had 10 be removed
again.
The mail from ut. Pleasant, Ohio, was
brought in on horseback yegterdaT
morning, the hacL having to be aban.
doned a few miles GAct OF Martins
Ferry. The Cadiz way mail, carrying
the sacks for ilarrisviiIe, Pleasant Grove
and Cadiz BY the way oil the Cadiz pike,
has not been in since the storm.
The "Socmedo" route, as 1t is known
st the pos,oiIice, hoI7sGack FoEte be.
tween here and Cameron, has not been
in yet.
AT Elmirn.
! ELMIRA, n. Y, Dec. lS.-The heavy
suov storm. when struck klmira yester'
I iay morniip continued rnab.t4i untii