Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-05-28

Everything gone" nothing left, &"
everything lost"-such expressions
abound in the reports of the viewers
sent out to travel the path and to pre-
pare careful and detailed estimates of
the destruction. The Relief Commit
tee has been impressed with the COM
pleteness Of the cyclones work. Down
at Houston street bridge. Eliza Cox.
colored, lost the little cabin paid for
at 81 week and the $3.50 worth of
plumber in it. Up on FairYieW J. B.
Irvine'S $4,000 house. barn. outhuild-
ings. carriages and granaries went in
the same clean sweep. The loss is Just
as total in one case as in the other.
and this applies TO hundreds Farmers
have been left without so much as a
chicken or a hoe. City negroes are
wearing clothes hastily donated to COW
er their nakedness. for the storm took.
in several instances, what they had on
their backs
The Relief Committee had hopes at
first that something might be saved to
the sufferers. There were sent out
through the surrounding country notices
requesting all persons finding in the
track of the late storm pictures, jewel
ly, watches or other articles that may
be of value or interest to surviving
members or friends of the injured fam
lilies to bring the same to headquar-
ters.' 1t might be supposed that such
requests would prompt the restoration
of many small articles. Such has not
been the case. Several torn or soiled
photographs have been brought in.
Almost nothing of value has been re-
covered.
My place cost me $500 a year ago"
said ere Fairview resident as ne sur
veyed the scene. 1--WE got the lot
left"
\ refrigerator is strongly built,
compact article of furniture. One that
stood in a Fairview house had 100
pounds Of ice in it when the cloud
came. The ice was found in the next
yard. Several pieces of the refrigerator
were discovered at a greater distance.
In the house of Capt Birge a vase stood
on the top of a large sideboard The
vase has been recovered. 1t has a
slight nick in the top of it. There is
not a trace Of the sideboard.
People who ran from the central
part of the city cut Washington ave-
nue. to the rescue, within i've minutes
after the cloud had passed, encounter
ed the strangest spectacle ever seen
in Sherman's streets They met, COM
ing from the path OF the storm, a ne
gress who weighed probably 800
pounds. She hadn't garment upon
her. The mud, which the cyclone had
churned to the consistency OF thin
paste. was from the famous BLACK
waxy' of North Texas. With this the
negro woman, as in the eases of all
who came out of Ihe cloud, was plast-
cred from crown TO sOles.
"She looked more like one of those
big sea lions when it comes up glist-
ening black from a plunge in the tank
than anything l can think Of, said one
of the citizens who was favored with
a full view of the living picture. She
had no clothes upon her" he continu-
ed. and as she walked along she held
in front a piece of an old skirt she had
picked up somewhere.
Prof j. F. Kohler had an experience
with the cyclones inclination to rob its
victims of the clothing on them. The
musician lived in the house OF B. f.
Long, with his wife and child. He had
gone home early that afternoon, and