Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1891-02-22
A BIG SCARE
OCCASIONED AMONG SUFFERERS BY THE
FLOOD YESTERDAY,
By Rlmoys that Another Big Freshet Was Coming
The Rams Made the Yarn Plausible-Heayy
Loss to Railroads.&c. the Fair Ground.

Loss to Railroads.&c. the Fair Ground.
The rain announced in the REGISTER of
yesterday as having commenced about
o'clock Yesterday morning, continued with
little intermissi0n until about noon Co
incident with this downpour there were put
in circulation rumOrs that the city was on
the eve of another visitation by flood, it
being confidently asserted by numbers of
people who had reliable information"
that the river was rising at Pittsburg that
both the Allegheny and Monongahela were
coming out heavily, and that an additional
rise of twenty feet at Wheeling was pos
Siole. The continued rain and the general
depression among those who had suffered
| by the freshet of the past few days, caused
these alarming reports TO be widely credit
ed and as result there was great deal
of anxiety all during the afternoon Little
reliable news could be obtained by wire,
| but such as was obtained was posted up at
the newspaper Offices and was eagerly
read Often there were from fifty 10 sixty
people about the front of the REGISTER
once reading the bulletins and discussing
the dismal prospect, and hundreds of IS
! land ana South Side people went 10 supper
with almost conviction that the river
would be found % be rising this morning
! The alarming rumOrs referred 70 were
| apparently confirmed, abOUt3 o'clock in the
afternoon, when tue Associated Press sent
out the following from Plttsburg:
! l'irr.Brg .. February 81 Another Hood is ap.
D abe O.
! raining al day anu thrre arc mo- Indications of
/ the weather cleaning. Al all points up the Mo
/ uougahela and Allegheny rivers the water is
again rising. and these streams are still out
! slide thelr banks. 30 repetition oi ihe high water
of Tuesday and "Wednesday is feared. The
/ work OF clearing fhe deposit OF mud and debris
] irft by the Hood is being prosecuted vigorously
| Boa this section aud Che town streets are begin
I ming tD assume their rsonted appearance The
/ damage done by the flood BOO tins section has not
| Vet been figured up bur DO o. >Hlr 90 say % viii
reach mauN hundred, of thousands OF dollars.
The REGISTER did not take much stock
in these sensational reports, and as a re
suit of Geographic enquiry 10 many points
along the upper tributaries OF the Ohio, is
| happy 40 being able 90 announce this morn
ing that there IS no danger of a repetition
of the flood, aud that 10 is likely the river
will continue 70 fall all day to-day,
twenty-five foot stage being probably by
| tonight The rainfall ABOUT headwaters,
while general. was not heavy enough 10
materially change the level of the streams.
and although there We're small, upward
/ movements 40 Rowlesburg. W Va, Browns
/ vile. Pa. Lock No. 4. Pa, FdirmOnt,
| W. Va. MOrgantOwn. ". Va. and Parker,
/ Pa, 10 was not enough 20 bother about.
! The water here showed 33 feet inches 40
| p. IN, 33 feet . inches no . $50 p. M. 33 feet
az s.. 80, - feet inches at p. m. and 81
| feet inches az midnight.
The railroads on the Ohio side Of the
river. between Martins Ferry and Steu-
/ oeuvllle. suffered even more severely than
/ did the Ohio River road. John Hamilton
and : j Brown came down last evening
ia skin from MiugO Junction, making
the trip in about TWO hours and half. No
damage of consequence was done al Mingo.
and the factory and steel plant Will 20 on
! Monday The furnace ran right along
| through the flood Quite a number of
| houses IN the bottoms were flooded, but
the contents of the dwellings were saved.
/ Regarding the damage 10 the railroads
/ mentioned. tse gentlemen named said the
! Wheeling and Lake Erie was almost a
total wreck from Steubenville to Martins
Ferry The nils are mostly washed out,
and where there is tresuing il is largely
| carried away The loss 10 the company is
placed IA the neighborhOod of $4,000.
and Pittsburg road, just above the Port
land bridge, the gap being probably 80
feet long The management OF the COM
pany expects TO have this and other dam
age repaired by MOnday-atleaStS sufficient
Is TO permit of the running Of trains
The "Pewikyn authorities have their
hands full, and trains will hardly be run
ming through on that line for several days.
| At Wilson's station, seven miles up, there
is 4 slip about one hundred feet long and
eighteen or twenty feet high, extending
down over the track onto the county road.
To dig through this in a short time would
! be hopeless, and the track will be laid
around IT, just this side OF the slip another
section of the hill was coming down last
evening, and will probably cover the track
| today.
\ REGISTER reporter yesterday made
very diSagreeable and somewhat perllous
trip through the State Fair Grounds, and
found the entire enclosure in a terrible
condition Every foot of space inside and
out OF the buildings is covered with from
TWO 10 four inches of soft mud, and the
property Of the Association is damaged 10
| The extent of fully 5000. Along the north
side of the grounds the sheep and swine
pens are washed loose from their proper
Dlaces. twisted out of shape or partially
turned over, and are lodged In an irregular
line along the south side OF the road. Inc
dancing pavilion is badly damaged, the
doors of the main building are open
and partially of their supports, the Ma
chinerv Hall is all out of whack. the fence
around the north end of the track on the
inside is gone, and from the restaurant
near the entrance gate clear down the east
side OF the grounds TO the point OF the
Island. and along up the west side 10
| the grand stand every foot OF fence, all the
stabling and the sheds are gone, the posts
being pulled out Of the ground clean. The
] band stand was washed away and lodged
down near where the stables used 10 stand,
and north of the grand stand the booths
and small buildings are overturned and
badly damaged Treasurer Hook was seen
last evening. and said: Il am satisfied our
loss will be between five and six thousand
dollars, and it's pretty rough on US just as
! we were getting a little ahead, but we VIII
90 right ahead fix things up, and give the
people the best Fair. the coming autumn, IN
the history of the Association. We do not
intend 10 let the institution go down, be
cause it is a good thing for Wheeling and
good thing for the farmers"
| Island citizens again illuminated their
houses by candles and lamps last night,
the utmost exertions Of the gas folks peo-
pie, reinforced by all the extra men Secre-
| tarv Franzheim could use 10 advantage,
being inadequate 10 getting supply OF gas
| through the pipes Men were kept pump
! ing al the Fink street station ali day and
far into the night, but the pipe was far
from being empty when they stopped,
Not only is the pipe under the river full OF
water. but the entire underground system
on the Island is in the same state, and
il must be all pumped out before the gas
can be turned on. Secretary Franzhelm
said last evening: Il hoped to have gas on
the Island TO night, but could not get the
water out Tomorrow the Atlantic en-
CINE will be put TO work pumping out the
nine system, and we will have things in
pretty good shape by this evening, l hope.
/ have been figuring a little, and find That
there are many more than one thousand