Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-03-24
ON THE SOUTH SIDE.

The Water Entered the First Floors OF
Many Houses in the Sixth and Eighth
Wards--A Number of Factories Stopped.
Some Cases of Distress.
Like everywhere else, the people in
the low districts on the South Side
were unpleasantly surprised yesterday.
morning to find themselves being rap
idly surrounded by water. None i'm
agined when they went to bed tho
night before that the water would be
about them when they would get up.
Under such cireuulstanGes----e s. - 54l
Of inconvenience and disco2afort Waol
caused in their haste To get ut Of tlaos
way of the flood. AS early as six and
seven o'clock portions OF the Sixth
and Eighth wards and upper Benwood.
were under water, anQ was not
long after that it came if~Jn the first
floors of many of the houses. Every
person by working hard got their
household effects out before the water
came in. Those who lived in one
story houses and families who occu-
pied only the first floor were forced
to get wagons and have their goods
moved.
There was considerable difficulty in
getting houses to move to and in the
majority of cases parties who were
forced out OF their houses by the
water were compelled to store their
goods away in every conceivable
place Early yesterday morning peo-
pie who lived in the lower part Of q
house on Thirty-siXth street had to
n DOT n
place for their goods or express con-
veyance to carry them, they piled their
furniture upon the sidewalk and there
it remained all day with the rain fall
ing. AS the water came up hlgner
and higher the owner Of the goocs
would move them a few feet at q
time from the waters edge. 4 tour
Of the South Side was made by 2 Reg-
lister man yesterday afternoon.
At that time the water had crossed
Chapline street and covered the street
from below Caldwell's run TO twenty
eighth street. The ground around the
Warwood tool works and MeMecheh
preserve factory were also submerged.
and both Of these factories We're lotC7a
to close down early in the day. fIol
Twenty-seventh street, Marhet vas
flooded to halfway between I"tAtS
fourth and Twenty-thfd sJigat7'
Main street was covered to tAe Der
mont mill. The Belmont Qull peLoIo
noon. About the same time me water
came in the Niagara engine mousse oil
Twenty-fourth street, and the enllo
apDaratus was moved to the NOOK aH't
ladder house in the FiLjh "afu. n2
4 ia...u ift Illbt -AL
lantic. The deepest water OH tno
South Side was On I"eA.
street and in that vicinity. ln q0'1e =
number of the houses on '"el'y
seventh street the water "e9 1l.0o -
four feet deep on the iT5t Aool a.
on Market street hummer ol srt,,
were in the same coAdlJl'"'
water entered the Old p1jllAs Oh lLo
spears axle works, on y "elL'S -5'' =
street but the new factory "HiC" -
higher situated, continued 10 W. ~
a portion of the day. NE va -
notterv shut down early VII tHG ny"
ing az soon as the water coN'I -,
to come in the cellar. Al Jle "lie1
inc notferv the water started 10 COMO
II tha cellar of the ola branch Pr
Cbapline street and causea en.1
branch of the works TO stop cohipiete-
ly. ..,.r ~ Az
he afternoon the portion q ths
Eio,..h ward from 1hirty-seVenth ~
rbirtv-fourtb. on ChapIine ana Mafkee
streets was under water ana ~ many
;,,,+a.,,ras the peoD1e ha9 been driven
fron, tbeir first floors. The water was
abont Inc Ohio River road round house.
anJ +be tanks DR. the Freedom Ql