Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-07-18
DESTRUCTIVE STORMS.

DESTRUCTIVE STORMS.
Wind and Rain Cause Great Devastation
In Portions of Pennsylvania. New Jersey
and Maryland-Fears Many Lives
We're Lost.
BALTIMORE, Nd, June 27.-A heavy
rainfall began here Wednesday afternoon
and continued until three O'Clock yesterday
morning. The flood is the most disastrous
that ever devastated the fertile valleys Oh
Maryland. Double Pipe Creek is over hal1
A mile wide at Union Bridge. The water
ls three feet deep in the Union Bridge Hotel.
The dwelling occupied by Zach Robinson
is under water, and the family had a mar
row escape. The damage to the crops IS
%incaculable. Lloyd Rustus lost TWEEN
ty thousand feet of lumber and
forty tons Of fertilizers. Five hundred feet
of the track on the Western Maryland KALI
road is washed out between Union Bridge
and Linwood. All trains are b%lockaded.
at the town of Double Pipe Creek the water
was even with the bridge. Houses were
submerged to the second story and the
people fled to the high lands in their
nightclothes. The Monocacy is higher than
for twenty-five years. 1t is over the track
near Hagerstown. Fences, outbuildings
and crops along the creek near here are
washed away. The highways are m
passable. The railroad track where the
Monocacy crosses it is also washed
away. John Bakers herd Of COWS
and Howard Moore's drove Of hogs
were swept down the stream and lost.
David Ogle's brick-yards were washed out.
There was eight feet of water in the low
lying portions of Union Bridge. The
loss to the crops in this immediate neighbor.
hood is over $500, 900. The farmers are
out in boats and RATS securing their prop
erty in spite of imminent danger. Thou.
sands of trees and logs are being carried
away by the surging waters. David Ogle's
truck garden is gone. Albert Dorsey, a
colored boy, was carried away and drowned.
The body has not been recovered.
H~AGERsTowN, Md, June 27.-One Of
the most severe rain and wind storms for
years began here about seven o'clock
"Wednesday night. The rain continued to
pour down in torrents all night, and at one
O'Clock yesterday morning an alarm OF fire
was sounded which turned out to be a sum-
mons from occupants of houses OH George
street for assistance to rescue them and their
property from the flood. The rain was still
Of four feet in the street, and in
4 the first story of several houses it
was three feet deep. Assistance was
rendered by the fire department by emo
ing the furniture to the second stories.
Great damage WAS done. The farmers in
the different districts report considerable
damage to the wheat crop throughout the
country. In the bottom lands the water is
standing several feet deep, with the wheat
blown down. Trains due here early this
morning or the Western Maryland and the
Shenandoah Valley Railroads are delayed
owing to several washouts. The trestle.
work OH the Shenandoah Valley Railroad
between St James College and S%harpsburg
was carried away for some distance.
ATLANTIC CITY, n. j., June 27.-A ter.
rife northeast storm swept over this place
yesterday, doing much damage along the
beach front, telling trees OH the avenues,
and blowing down chimneys all over the
city. The wind increased in velocity and
violence until it was blowing such a gale as
has seldom been known even OIL this bleak
and dangerous coast The greatest damage
yet known to lave been done upon the
beach was the unroofing of Towards new
pier pavilion, which was in course OF con-
struct1on and would have been completed
in three or four days. 1t was a large struct'
ure, 12S feet long by 11S wide, very substan.
TALLY built. 1t was made of the strongest
beams, heavily screwed and bolted, and il
was thought that it could face any storm.
1t was about ten o'clock when the roof be.
gan to show signs of giving way. In a few
minutes there was a loud noise of creaking
timbers, and suddenly the entire pavilion
was lifted high in the air and fell with a
crash that was heard above the storm as far
as Atlantic venue. 1t is now a confused
heap of timbers, lying partly on the floor OF
the pier, which was notinjured, and much OF
it has gone overheard and been washed
down the beach. The loss will be over ST.
600. The new Victoria Skating Rink, Oh
the beach, which was also nearing compile.
ton, had the entire western side blown
away. Mrs. John d. Fleming, of Camden,
and her two children, were endeavoring to
reach Pennsylvania avenue by the beach
walk about 1880 O'Clock. The wind blew
all three from the walk, and separated the
children from their mother. The little ones
were carried along by the force Of the
gale and rolled in the sand for nearly a
hundred feet. They were picked NJ and
carried to a neighboring bath-house very lit
tie injured, but terribly frightened. At the
inlet most of the yachts were injured, but
many of them are ashore and two have been
sunk. There is no doubt that the storm
will work some changes in the formation of
the breach line. The gale did much dam
age to the boats at Absecom Inlet. Five
sloops and two schooners were blown
ashore, and two other boats were sunk. A
number of small boats at anchor in the bay
were driven ashore. Captain Daniel RiS-
ley, and a colored sailor, Of the sloop Md.
colin, which brooke her moorings and be-
camel ~nmanageable, were rescued last even
ing from Long Bend Point, a short distance
above Atlantic City, by Captain Thomas
Homer and a volunteer crew.