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Show ; CLOUDBURST IN WEST VIRGINIA. it .Family Swept Away on the Bosom of the Itaging Waters. Wheeling, W.Va., July 26. The storm , which passed over this portion of the country coun-try last niirht was disastrous in its results. ,In Marshall county, a few miles from Wheeling, Wheel-ing, the entire family of nine persons are reported re-ported to have been swept away by the sudden flood following the cloudburst. The family consisted of' W'illiam Dody and wife, three children of .Dody's, father and "mother, Mrs. Dody's mother and servant cgirl. The house was situated in a ravine and was swept away by the current. Not one of the sleeping occupants was left to Itell the tale. The first known of the disas-" disas-" the finding of the body of the ser- poilrt n tue Tar f 8 "eighbor some dis-s dis-s dp below in the morning. It is also re-aiJs re-aiJs id that the bodies of Dody and children -af 4 been found near the mouth of the, f k which empties int the Ohio river, i .another house was swept away by the ; -same current, but all the occupants are believed be-lieved to have escapecL At Proclere, on the ithie River railroad, a large trestle was ( washed out and a freight train wrecked, j Two of the crew were" badly injured. At 1 Parkersburg another storm played I havoc with the tte encampment of the "tnilitia. The stable of Shattuck's stock i farm -was struck by lightning and . several J blcoded horses were killed. |