Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-04-21
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UeneraI Activity Among
Public Accepting the Situation
Phi1osophicaiIy.
Matters on the South Side assumed
a lively aspect late yesterday afternoon
when the news was received from head
waters that the rainfall had showed no
signs OF abating and both the Ale
gheny and Monongahela rivers were
rising at the rate OF a foot an hour.
On South Main street the merchants
commenced moving their goods at a
late hour yesterday afternoon. Many
business men who were on the ground
floor we're compelled to move to other
quarters.
In the vicinity Of Twenty-seventh
street every family in the immediate
vicinity had moved their entire house
hold goods to the second floors of their
respective homes by s O'Clock last night.
This locality is extremely law and will
be reached by 80 feet
The Speaks Axle Company, which is
at the corner Of Twenty-seventh and
Main streets, closed down at noon yes
terday and the men devoted the entire
afternoon In shaping matters to protect
their property against the food.
At CaldweNs Run, on Twenty-ninth
street, which will also be inundated
by this afternoon, the residents are all
prepared for the worst.
The low land districts in the vicinity
OF T~hirty-flfth street and the lower
Eighth ward showed marked signs OF
activity among the residents. Many
families living In the extreme lower
end OF the ward were compelled to move
their household effects to higher ground
some taking advantage of the basement
room Of the Church of the Immacu-
late Conception, on T%hirty-sixth street.
Bogg's Run, which is generally one OF
the first districts to suffer from back
water, was effected early this morning.
Pearftown, which Is situated at the
mouth OF the run, will be affected very
materially.
EXpressmen on the South Side were
reaping a. harvest last night. The local
music stores were unable to. cope with
the situation and the anxious public
Immediately appealed to the liverymen
n expressmen who were enjoying
good prices and working all night.
The Fifth ward market was yisibly
affected last night by the threatening
aspect Of the river. The attendance
was the smallest of a Saturday night
for a number OF years, and a number
of butchers were compelled to return
home with almost their entire meats.
Messrs. A. C. Fischer and Fahey
Bros, the planning mill men of the
Eighth ward, had a force of men at
work all day yesterday removing their
loose lumber to higher ground and pro-
tectfng their various properties.
The various bakers on the South Side
worked all last night baking bread in
anticipation Of & repetition of the "a
food when bread was a scarce and ex-
pensiye article. The sale OF yeast last
night for home baking was enormous
and many homes will witness baking
to-day, preparatory to being detained
in their homes for the next three days.
The officials of the Wheeling Trac-
ton Company were at work last night
in protecting their properties at Forty
eighth street and Bridgeport.
The. r in the Forty-eighth street
barns were being prepared for removal
to the Fifth ward early this afternoon
as indications point toward their being
unable to pass Market and Twenty
seventh street and Bogg's Run this
morning. At the Forty-second street
pONCI 6CdIIOn t1JldOl UlDuIy pItCdu-
tions were taken to protect the ex-
pensiVe machinery, which raj recent
ly added to the plant.
Shanty Town, which is located below
the Bellaire bridge and is comprised
of Al shanty boats, was all consterna-
ton yesterday afternoon. The resi-
dents OF this colony were not telephon-
ing to have their pianos removed, but
were keeping the local rope store bus
lily engaged in supplying caulking, ETC.,
to aid in preparing their various boats
for the foo6. Many boats are in a
leaking condition and are doomed to
destruction.
The shantyboat Viola, owned by
August Muley, the T~hirty-third street
barber and anchored at Thirty-ninth
street. was torn from it's m~oorings and
fioated into the current. A number of
young men followed the boat in skihs
and succeeded in landing her at Glen
dale. At the Bellaire bridge the craft
narrowly escaped colliding with the
middle pier.