The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-08-14
Great Flood In Western Maryland
Railroad Bridges Swept Away-Win-
GoMS Broken by HaigstOncS.
GowS Bro

ISpc cial dispatch to the Baltimore Americana
FREDERICK, August 12.---The storm which
visited this section early this morning was
one of the most terrific known for years.
Rain fell in torrents, and lightning flashed
with binding brilliancy. III the surround
ing country much damage was done to the
corn, fencing. cuycrt>, roads, bridges, dc.
At BurkcttSrille much destruction was done
bv hail, which is said TO have fallen to the
size Of an egg. Corntelds were almost
stripped, and vegetation entirely destroyed.
About one thousand WindoW-paneS were
broken in the village. The damage to the
canal at New Berlin will probably require
| ten days to repair A break in the canal al
Mcrccrvile, Washington county, is also re-
ported. Two freight engines were thrown
| from the track Of the Baltimore and Ohio
| railroad between Point Of Rocks and Knox
vile by distractions thrown on the rails by
the flood, but no injury was done, and the
trains were soon put in motion.
THE FLOOD IN WASHINGTON COUNTY.
HAGERsrowN, Nd, August 12-This coun-
| tv, and especially the lower section of it. was
visited early this morning by one of the most
severe storms of rain and hail, accompanied
| by vivid lightning and startling pcals of
| thunder. that has been experienced in many
years. In this vicinity the rainfall was not
so great as to do any serious damage, though
in many places the corn has been mashed
and cut by the hail. But in the lower
part Of the county, and so far as at
present advised, especially along the
valley traversed by Washington Coun-
| ty railroad, the storm was fearful.
From near Keedysyille, about thirteen
miles south of Hagerstown, to the Potomac
river, the hail and rain has been exceedingly
destructive. The streams were all swollen
bv the great volume of water, and overflow
ing their banks at the railroad crossing,
washed the road very badly in many places,
and carried away between Eakles's mills sta
ton and Bartholow's station four small
bridges. including the bridge at Eakles's,
thus rendering the road impossible for dis
| lance of about eight miles.
The dam ut Eakles's mills has also been
carried away by the high water at Little An
tietam. 1t is also reported that brlck-klln
at that place was swept away. The pa>sen-
GERS by the trains between Hagcrstown and
Weyerton Junction were transferred around
the distractions in the road-that IS TO say,
between Eakles's mills and Bathoiow'S sta
| tion-in wagons and other conveyanceS, the
| trains for this END of the road stopping this
side Of Eakles's station and the trains from
! Weyerton being unable to come further
than Bartholow'S station. This, of course,
has caused some delay, but still travel has
not been interrupted.
The destruction caused by the hail, so far
as advised, has been terrible. The path Of
| the icy storm is marked by fields Of corn en-
tirely stripped and Frustrated. Even the
| forest and other trees are stripped Of their
foliage, and in many places are as bare as if
| the irosts and high winds of autumn had gone
| through them. How far this damage has eN
tended, or what breadth of country has been
visited by the hail, is not as yet known, but as
far as heard from all the southern section of
this county seems to have suffered more or
| less severely. The rain was SO violent that
| in many places the corn has been completely
washed out of the earth.
Serious apprehensions were felt for a time
for the high bridge crossing the Antietam,
but the rainfall in this portion of the county
was not sufficient to cause any serious rise i'll
that stream, and the bridge is therefore safe.
Those who were exposed to the storm OF
hail describe ita perfectly fearful, and some
remarkable accounts are in circulation as to
its size and violence.