Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-05-16
lIUCH DAMAGE DONE
By THE WIND STORM OF YESTERDAY AFTER
NOON.
Buildings UnrOfsd In and Out Of the City.
MOundsville Catches the Full Force Of the
Gals-A Day of Warning Elements.

Wheeling and the country surrounding
it was struck by the tail end of cyclone
about 19:45 yesterday afternoon and
much damage was done to property.
In the city several buildings were un-
rooted or otherwise injured and the
neighboring towns suffered equally.
In the country there was considerable
loss in the aggregate, and many fine
orchards were almost ruined. On the
hilltops all through Belmont, Ohio and
Marshall counties the wind was very
high, and doubtless details coming to
hand to-day from isolated points will
swell the loss considerably.
The morning was warm and sultry,
but the sky remained reasonably clear
and free from clouds until well towards
noon. Then a storm was seen approach
ing from the southwest, accompanied by
a good deal of thunder and lightning.
Before il struck the city, however, the
storm swung TO the south and came al
most squarely up the river, striking the
lower wards, south Of the creek, before
it was felt on the Island. The wind
came in gusts, reaching a velocity oil
fifty or sixty miles an hour at times,
and as these gusts struck buildings
shingles, fragments of tin roof, tree
limbs, etc., went hither and thither,
while rain fell in torrents. Hail was
expected by those watching the sky, but
none fell in the city. o.
Theewind came down the hollow OF
Whisky run with great force and struck
West Wheeling, shaking the houses but
doing no serious damage except at the
paper mill, where the roof OF the en-
CINE room was lifted off. The ferry
boat Orion was moored to the bank,
and canght the full force of the wind,
being damaged considerably.
At Belaire the wind was very strong,
but did no particular damage, and the
same thing is true OF Benwood, but at
Moundsville, where the width of the
river valley gave the wind fair sweep,
there was considerable loss. The Eos
toria glass works, which suffered so Sc
verely year or so ago. caught the
storm again, and the roof was blown
off. The electric light plant lost its
smoke stack, and there was no light in
Moundsyille last night. Other buildings
in the town suffered to less extent.
The main loss was back in the country,
however, where farm buildings were
injured, orchards broken, shade trees
damaged, etc. A good deal of hail fell
in the vicinity of Moundsville.
In the city the leading items Of dam
age were as follows:
At the Spears Axle Works, at Main
and Twenty-seventh streets, the tin
roof was rolled up and blown of the
building, and the north side OF the
structure was badly wrecked. The
plant did not present very ship-shape
appearance after the storm passed.
At the Bell foundry portion of the
roof was blown off.
At the residence of Mr.. Dehl, at the
corner OF Market and Ninth streets,
about fifteen feet square OF single:
were blown off.
At Main and Twentieth streets, an
electric light mast arm broke and threw
the hood across the electric railway
wires, shutting off travel for an hour anG
a half.
The residence of Mr.. Altmeyer, at the
north end of McCulloch street, near the
stock yards, had its gable end blown In.
A brick chimney at the corner of Six
teenth street and alley G was blown off
falling into the alley.
A length of fifty feet Of the big bill
board opposite the postoffice, on Six
teenth street, was blown down.
At the corner of Market and Four
teenth streets, the Hub" awning wa:
blown down, breaking one Of the large
plate glass windows.
In various other localities minor dam
age was done buildings, and number
of shade trees were badly broken.
This main storm Of the day was fol
lowed during the entire afternoon by
minor thunder storms, during several Of
which the wind got pretty high, but nj
loss resulted from these.