The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1913-01-09

front Will o. course. b the heaviest
sufferers The progress on the con-
struction OF tho new Windsor hotel
viii be seriously impeded. a. tho az
~cavntion for tho foundations are full
Of water and the large piles OF sand.
gravel and other materials are "a
merged. Much timber and r
work IL also under water and It will
be several lays At least before work
can be resumed.
A stage or IS feet will put water
into the Stamm hotel to q depth OF
about 3 feet md early preparations
for the hood have already been made.
The cellar yesterday. The carpets n
furniture on the nrst floor will be
moved 10 upper floors his afternoon
During the food of 1907 the water
reached q mark OF S feet three inches
on the frst story OF the hotel. and wa
two feet higher during the flood q
lss4.
There Is always more or less trouble
during foods by the water shutting
on the supply OF gas The gas COM
panies issued warnings to their pa.-
rons 20 see that the gas is turned OF
eefore leaving their premises. The
Wheeling Electric company yesterday
transferred their power from their oil
plant at Fourty-Eighth street, when
would have been put OF commis-
sion at a stage OF AZ feet. to their new
plant. located at Thirty Sixth street
II VIII take a stage OF SIS feet TO stop
the new plant so that Wheeling 10
u OF a supply OF electricity for
lighting purposes despite h high
water.
Several OF the engine houses OF the
city will be flooded and the apparatus
IL being moved from these PLACES to
higher grouid. A stage OF 80 fec.
puts the water IN the FIRST floor OF the
Niagara engine house and ~ fear
will reach h Island hose house.
More than a score OF IRE alarm boxes
Wi, be flooded.
Transportation xAnss
As there 10 every assurance that ths
Hood stage viii reach at least <s feet
there Is no doubt but that Wheeling will
be cut off from the outside world so far
stage OF - feet will hold up all trains
on The y. X o.. while a smaller stage
than this VIII stop all trains on the
run over the Wheeling & Lake Erie
from this city 10 Martins Perry, left the
local station about $50 o'clock last
evening. and as the water has already
covered n considerable portion OF the
tracks OF this road. no trains can be
hoped for inside OF several days.
A statement from the train dispatch
ers office OF the Il. a o. given 10 the
intelligence last night, was TO the eff
rect mat all or the trains were running
from one and one-half 60 two hours late
at that time and that after 4 O'Clock this
morning. providing tho water rises as
mas been predicted. no trains that leave
or enter this city by the way of Mounds
vile. viii be running. Cincinnati trains
Will not BE- shut OFF. but no trains enter
ing this city by way OF Grafton. over the
b. & o. after s o'clock last evening and
no attempt will be made to run trains
over this division until the water has
receded. \ bad wash out near ut. de
Chantal last evening. knocked out all
trains running over the Pittsburgh divf-
sion and ~ IL understood that IL will not
be possible TO repair the section OF track
washed out until the water has receded
materially.
Tracks IND water.
The tracks or the q. l.. a w, from
Bridgeport 20 Cleveland, are under water
for about a mile west OF bridgeport. but
trains Will be run from CleVcland to
points as near Bridgeport as possible.
or ali the traction companies in the
city. the Wheeling Traction will be tho
hardest struck by the Hood. a stag Of
as feet Will completely food the car