The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-02-19

ages at best, but to a nervous person
nj !ht 10 hotse Under those cirCum
, stances Ia night OF torture.
A number OF families whose house
we're already invaded remained in then
over Tuesday night. Yesterday morn
ing most OF these only waited lonl
enough 10 see a skiF within hGiling dis
tspce to get. 80,
Those who had less thrilling expe
rience Tuesday night were perhaps will
ing to try It again last night, but when
heavy outbuilding, the trunk OF a tre'
or some other heavy floating oblecl
came crashing sgsinst the walls like :
blow from battering ram they would
doubtless repent and Wish they were
safely out Of Il.
There was a report current yesterday
that number Of families in the Eighth
ward who were confined 10 their houses
by the unexpectedly rapid rise OF the
water Tuesday night, were without 1000
or fuel, and actually suffering, bat aean'
vass made by reporters under some diff
Culties failed to find any such cases
One man said he was suffering for I.
chew Of scrap, and another said he had
been ''snake bit" aud would like 70 have
some antidote.
One or two families neglected to carry
any coal up into the second story when
they moved up, and were put to some
Inconvenience by lack Of fuel TO cook
with, but the weather was 30 pleasant
that there was little need OF coal except
to cook with.
People who have gone through one or
two such floods as this one or the one OF
1854 would not fad any temptation to
live in Venice II each could be the doge.
Dry streets-at least dirt streets, even 1t
muddy, are good enough Tor Wheeling
flood sufferers.
THE DRY STREETS TIIBoN6ED.
Many nickle went into the Golfers Of
the bridge company yesterday nom the
pockets OF sightseers who desired to in-
spect the situation OF affairs on the Is.
land. In the morning when the fire
alarm rang there was au especially big
rush Of people acrosa to the Island.
Through the forenoon there was
a good deal Of pleasant prone.
nsdinR on the Garden Spot, down
aud up Front street, out Virginia
and ZINE, out Ohio and down
South Penn, but as the day wore on and
the waters came up, the available terri.
tory was very limited, until last evening
the river reached within hundred
yards Of the Suspension bridge approach
on Zane, Virginia aud South Front
streets.
On this side the dry and passable
streets were thronged all day, and all
along the wharf there was one stream Of
men aud women passing and repassing
from early morn till dewy eve, Tourists
in skifTs also made trips over those parts
of town which were navigable by row.
boats.
SERIOUS INTERFERRNCE.
Early in the morning the Island hose
house was flooded and had to be aban-
doned, the horses being taken to stable
on dry ground aud the reel stored in a
shed. At a stlll earlier hour the Niagara
engine was washed out in the same way.
The Island school was OF course en-
tirely abandoned. The Fourth ward
school has six teachers, including Pnn.
cipal Hammond, who live on the Island.
OF these Mr.. Hammond and one lady
we're able 10 reach their schools, but the
other four wers not, and their rooms
were not in session. The Eighth ward
had no school, both buildings being
and in one or two other wards
room or two had to be dismissed on &C.
count OF the teachers being imprisoned
by the waters.
Not a great deal OF serious damage
or financial loss was done by the flood
go far as eau now be told, except in Mar.
tins Ferry, as elsewhere reported. The
Camden Consolidated Oil Company lost
GOO barrels OF water white refined oil
from its tanks on the creek bank.
There was a big and bad cave in in
the sidewalk in front OF st, Johns Ger
man church, on Market street, last night.
It is a dangerous place, and efforts were
made in vain to sound its depth.
On Vermont street, Island, the car
psnter shop and outhouses OF William
ImhoG were carried of, and heavy
frame stable belonging TO ]. i. Porter
was toppled over on Mr.. 1mhoti's frame
residence, endaugering it greatly. 1t
looked laat night as II 1t could not be
saved. Flnk's stable, in the open ground
70 the South, was also carried away.
Iu every flooded part OF town numer-
Gus outhouses, fences and the like were
swept away, and the loss from this cause
will be heavy in the aggregate.
IN THE VICINITY.
Out the creek the backwater was ever
the pike at Leatherwood to depth Of
several feet, and all around the PENN.
sula the Elm Grove road was submerged
90 that about O'Clock the Elm Grove
railway had TO abandon all efforts TO run
trains. There were number OF bad
slips on the roads east Of the city, and
ali sorts OF vehicles got through with
difficulty II at all.
AT Mouudville 1876 to $50 houses were
flooded, and there will be good deal Of
damage discovered when the waters re-.
cede. Tue river was over the Ohio
River railroad clear through town, and
over the B. & o. at the station.
At Bellaire people on tbe lowlands
had their houses completely flooded, and
during the entire night the txoress wag.
ons were running with loads Of moving,
There was little sleep for most Of those
likely to be reached by the water. The
Enterprise Window Glass Works, the
Beliaire works, and the Etna and Rod
eier Bros factories were all more or less
inundated, but a force OF men were
kept at work good portion Of the night
clearing all perishable materials ont Of
the cellars or lower floors, 30 that most
of them were prepared. The Crystal
and Union window works were closed
on account OF the water flooding around
them, and in the metal yards. The gas
works were shut out before day, could
not run the machinery, bus they kept
the light going until morning. There
was none last evening, however.
An a. GrulAlS pppuY