The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1889-06-05
DESTRUCTION IN MARYLAND.
Enormous Damage at Baltimore and
other Po nts by the Floods.

Enormous Damage at Baltimore and
other Po nts by the Floods.
BALTIMORE, Nd, June 3.-Maryland
suffered severely from the sto ms ravages.
More than $1,000, 900 worth of property
has been destroyed and over a half-dozen
lives lost. Along the line Of the Potomac
the damage was greatest and the Chesa-
peake q Ohio canal is probably damaged
beyond repair.
In western Maryland the Monacacy river
overfowed its banks and destroyed vast
amount of property. In Frederick the
people did not go TO bed all light and the
bells were ringing, summoning help to the
flooded districts.
That city is almost completely isolated
from the rest of the world, communication
being cut off. One telephone wire is
wOTk king. During the night an electric
light wire fell across the Western Union
tele graph wires sending current of fire
into the office of the telegraph company
that bu mt out the switch board and
nearly caused the destruction of the First
National bank building by fire.
At Taneytown, about seventeen miles
from II frederick, Mrs. Charles McFadden
and Miss Maggie Moore we drowned.
They were in riage attempting to
ford a stream when the vehicle was washed
At Harmony Grove, near Frederick,
Miss Carrie Kefauver was to have been
married TO J. Harry Stokes of Emmets-
burg, Nd, but the wedding did not take
place. The groom could not reach the
house of his intended because of the high
water.
At Point of Rocks sixteen miles from
the city, the flood has caused scene of
desolation. The turnpike and railroad
companies will lose heavily. Nearly all OF
the wooden bridges over the Patapsco
have been carried away and the cotton
mills in the vicinity OF Ellicott City and
Laurel were inundated, Wrapping the ma
chnery and completely destroying the
fabrics.
No part of Washington county escaped.
All tie streams became raging torrents,
and property near them were either in IN
dated or entirely swept away. No esti nate
can be made o. tie damage done, but It
will reach hundreds of thousan ls
Tie railroads entering Hagerstown have
also sustained great damage, and on sew
eral OF tiem no trains arrived to-day The
greatest loser is tie Cumberland Valley.
It's new iron bridge across the Potomac
river went down. Not hing is left of the
structure except the span across the canal.
Tie original cost of the bridge was
SO. 900.
At and in the vicinity of Williamsport,
where the Conococheague empties into the
Potomac, the loss is very heavy. Many
warehouses are under water and their
losses will be great. One-half of Dephone's
chair factory and paint shop were swept
away, causing loss of $ i,00D
Soon otter the factory gave way Theo-
dore WOLFE aged 1S, son of Louis r.
Wolfe, and Samuel Corbett, both of Will
Transport, started in boat 70 recover sew
eral chairs. While engaged i'm doing so
young Wolfe fell into the river and was
drowned The houses OF William BouZhoif
ana A. Ensinger, a short distance above
Williamsport, were both washed away
Two miles below Willamsport several
houses were swept away one belonging to
Patrick Collins aud another the property
Of the canal company.
At Falling Waters several houses have
also beon destroyed. On the Conoco-
cheague Ardinger mill is almost entirely
under water and at Kemps the food filled
two stories of the mill and swept away the
house of Martin Bell.