The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1884-07-05
Af.er she Floods.

| A stranger travelling through Carroll to-day
would scarcely be aware that there were SCI
we're wind and rain and floods little more
than week ago. The streams are within
their banks and the waters as clear as crystal
again. If he were observant, in some places
he would discover by the incline of the grass,
weeds and bushes that the water had been
high; and occasionally he would see water
marks on trees and underground indicating
that the little, clear, running stream had re-
| Gently been roaring, muddy river, carrying
along in its fury drift wood. straw and debris
generally. Along Sans Creek in places the
now Insignificant stream was one hundred
yards wide and from ten to fifteen feet deep.
Again it spread out to several times that
width, but then its current was not so strong.
Where the waters might have been destructive
there was nothing to destroy, only waste land,
grown up with bushes, bordering the stream.
Where the water spread out, there was gen
orally only meadow lands used for pasturage.
Just two weeks before the food of last week
this little stream was swollen by cloud burst,
and its hurried waters swept out three mill
dams. Leaving its banks it rushed down the
public road just beyond Sans Creek post
Office towards Libertytown, and for quarter
of a mile the dirt is washed off completely,
leaving the roadbed q mass of stones. The
damage to mill dams has been repaired, and
the mills are running as usual On Morgan,
Run at the same time there was considerable
ruin wrought to mill dams and crops, but
there, too, but few traces of the flood are to
be seen. On Little, Big and Double Pipe
creeks, on the Monocacy and smaller streams,
there are but few traces of the flood left.
large bridge at Trevanion Mills, that will cost
the county about 81 900 to rebuild, was the
only bridge of any consequence that was car
rIad and fha n oma 20 n n theirs trItilnp
Along these streams, as along Sans Creek,
where the floods would have been destructive
there was but little to destroy. Where they
spread over adjacent fields, crops and fences
were damaged, yet but few individuals suf-
fered loss to any considerable extent.
In twenty mile ride on Wednesday rep
resentative of the ADVOCATE could observe
little effects of the storm and floods. In
that distance not more than ten or dozen
wheat fields were seen where the grain was
badly beaten down, though in very many
there were places where the wheat was tam
gled. Corn fields were washed in some To-
calities, but it was not discovered that any
particular injury was done. The roads were
in good condition and every bridge was intact
For replacing and repairing bridges, big
and little, carried away or damaged by the
two floods, the county will not have to cxpend
more than three or four thousand dollars.
The damage to individuals is difficult to esti
mate, though except in few cases no one
suffered much loss. The aggregate of indi-
vidual losses may reach $4,000 or 10000,
but it is so widely distributed that it will not
be severely felt by any one.
The reports first received were exaggerated.
They were made when the streams were rag
ing rivers and portended danger and devasta-
ton. A stray sheep or pig forced the belief
that the drowning of stock must be great. A
few shocks of wheat, rails, posts and logs, led
to the conclusion that great destruction was
being wrought Fortunately these apprehen-
sions were not realized. They were born of