Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1879-07-05
Hurricane i'm Baltimore.

A violent wind, hail and rain storm
visited Baltimore on Saturday doing
great damage to property, unrooilng
and otherwise injuring hundred build
ings or more. blowing down signs and
awnings and chimneys. and causing
great destruction along the wharves
and exposed southern boundary. For
tunately no lives were lost, other than
one by the incidental capsizing OF
boat, but several persons were painfully
injured in one way or another, ard
there were many narrow escapes. The
force of the storm was also felt III the
harbor, and the shipping suffered severe
". The steamer Arrowsmith was
struck by the storm, while at her wharf
about to start for Tivoli, and the smoke
stack was blown with such violence
that it entered the cabling Of another
steamer laying alongside, causing great
CONSERVATION, but no injury TO indirIG-
uals. \ yawlboat rom the George
Law was lifted into the air from the
hurricane deck and carried ACROSS the
deck Of the steamers Arrowsmiih and
Pen,z and dropped into the "ater sev,
cral piers distant. The steamer Louise
was torn from her moorings and blown
to another wharf where she was caught
and fastened without further injury.
The full fury of the storm seemed TO
he spent on the central and business
portion of the city. North OF West
Baltimore street no damage was done,
while all along Pratt street, from Light
street to the falls, and in the territory
bounded by Pratt, Light and Baltimore
streets and the falls, few buildings of
any size or consequence in the line OF
march taken by the storm escaped.
On Pratt street, at the foot Of South
street, the scene would have been ludi-
crous if it had not been for the element
of danger The streets were crowded
with wagons, which were turned COM
pletrlv over, and in the mCmentary
darkness there was much disorder aud
confusion amongst the owners. Empty
flour barrels were sent through the air
like paper balloons, the contents OF
fruit stands disappeared as quickly as
properties" i'll IA rantomlme, aud
large showcase filled with knives and
reviewers was cleaned out as cffectually
as it could have been 10y band OF rev
olutionsts The five story building
owned by the Johns Hopkins estate,
flontno on Pratt street, from Elllcott
to Light street, was badly damaged;
It's tin roof was lifted from one end to
the other, and portion it, with raj
tiers, deposited III the centre of Light
street, opposite 5alderston street.
Other fragments Of the building we've
deposited on houses on the west side
of Light street, Wilde huge raiter
broke the skylight of Il. Sinclair Il Go. s
Warehouse and brough; shower OF
bricks down into the counting room.
The corner of President and Fawn
streets after the storm exhibited most
striking features. The roof and upper
story of the Baltimore Riyet aud Spike
Works appeared to have been lifted
bodily and hurled against an adjoining
building, falling to the ground in
mass of ruins.
The chemical works of Michael Dorsey,
on Eastern avenue, just beyond the
city limits, large frame building was
blown down. The machinery was bro
ken, aud the yats, containing oil of Wit
riol, burst, flooding the whole street
with the dangerous liquid.
In the track of the storm the streets
were deluded with water, and in the
vicinity of the custom house and Mary
land Institute large number of build
ings, between forty and fifty, including
warehouses and stores; were unrooted.
Besides the destruction of roofs, large
plate glass windows were blown out and
destroyed. The damage will probably
reach $4,000. The track OF the storm
was not more than a quarter of mile
wide, and its fury was spent before it
reached the eastern confines of the city.
In the northwestern section there was
only light shower Of rain, without
wind, and in the northeastern section
only heavy rain of few minutes du-
ration.