Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. to cause a commotion, to ‘raise hell’; often as hell around v.

1902		O. Wister Virginian 272: I was fooling round the earth, jumping from job to job, and helling all over town between whiles.
1907		D. Runyon ‘The Defence of Strikerville’ in From First To Last (1954) 23: They won’t start until about midnight, and then they’re coming a-hellin’.

2. to hurry, to ‘fly’ around (esp. in some activity disapproved of by the speaker).

1950		R. Starnes Another Mug for the Bier 164: [I]t was an ambulance, helling out the state road.
1957		(con. WWII) ‘Weldon Hill’ Onionhead (1958) 15: ‘If you do enlist [...] you’ll come see your old dad before you go hellin’ off no tellin’ where’.
1993		(con. 1945) S. McAughtry Touch and Go 99: The Taigs want us to hell out of it.