WHEELING — After a commercial truck rolled over into the Stone Church Cemetery Thursday evening, city workers have a large clean-up job ahead of them.

Current estimates place the number of damaged, broken and displaced graves at 30-35 or more, according to city of Wheeling Division of Operations’ Chad Long. While some were ripped up from the ground, others were broken in half and will likely need to be completely replaced.

This section of the cemetery housed a lot of very old graves, Long said, meaning many of the families of those buried there are no longer alive or in the area. However those wondering if a loved one’s grave was impacted by the crash can contact the Division of Operations.

“Our first priority is going to be actually trying to put [the headstones] back in their proper location and get started with that and I’m sure families will be contacting me,” he said. “A lot of them I wouldn’t even have records on who to call, they’re so old.”

After operations workers determine the location of each of the displaced graves and return them, they will meet with a couple monument companies to determine which headstones can be repaired and get replacements for those that can not be repaired.

“It’s going to be a big job for sure,” Long said.

The trucking company’s insurance will likely help pay for the damage to the headstones once the investigation into the accident is complete in the next few days.

Long said in his time working for the city, there was one other incident in which a truck left the road and knocked a couple of headstones out of place at Stone Church Cemetery, but he has never seen an incident cause this much damage.

There were three passengers inside the truck when it rolled off of Stone Church Road and flipped over into the cemetery. All of the passengers suffered minor injuries that were treated on scene. They refused further medical attention and transport to a hospital and left the scene of the accident.

Ohio County Sheriff Nelson Croft said Stone Church Road, which was closed for several hours Thursday night to allow for crews to remove the truck, opened back up around 10:30 p.m. The cause of the crash is still under investigation.

Now that the truck and initial blockages have been removed, they can get to work on getting everything back in place.

“We’re going to get on it as soon as we can,” Long said. “They got the truck out of there, so we have to go through, now that everything is cleared out and see exactly which ones were affected and get everything back in place as soon as we can.”