Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1889-06-15


Standing upon the hills at the foot
of Salisbury street, magnificent, yet
heart-rendIng sight was presented.
All day Saturday and Sunday the
residents oftown, together with thous-
ands of people from the neighboring
towns and villages and the surround
ing country viewed with aching
hearts the flow of the great flood,
as home after home, barns, warehous-
es, boats and all kinds of valuable
property came sweeping along, to be
dashed 10 pieces against the first OBJ
struction that came III its way.
1t can be safely estimated that the
number of visitor to this place on Sat
day and Sunday would exceed 10000
people. Nearly twelve hundred We
hicles passed through the tollgate on
the Hagerstown and Williamsport
turnpike, to say nothing about the
large number that came in off the diff
ferent county roads. Every tree and
hltching post in town had horse tied
TO 1T, while many were tied along the
fences on the vacant lots and subur-
ban streets. The iron bridges recent
ly erected by the county commission
ers, one at Kemp's Mills, near this
place, one between Smithsburg and
Leitersburg, and one at Fairview,
have been carried away. The bridges
at Broadfording and Licking creek,
near Clcarspring, are destroyed, and
the loss to the county from the dam
age done TO bridges alone is estimated
at from thirty to fifty thousand dol
lars, to say nothing of damage done to
the public road by washouts. The
large cement mill, near Sharpsburg,
owned by Blackford, Grimes, Wilson &
Darby, was turned around on its foun-
dation and broken in two. Fifteen hun
dred barrels of cement, the cooper
shop and other smaller buildings were
washed down the river. So powerful
was the Conococheagde that the great
or portion of an iron bridge was wash
ed down stream two miles and lodged
in an open field.
There was also great destruction in
the vicinity of Hancock. Messrs.
Bridges d Henderson's Cement Works
at Hancock are badly damaged. The
v orkhouse, cooper shop, engine house
and large quantity OF cement are
lost. One Of their boats was caught at
the Little Pool and four mules drown
ed. Their loss is about $500 The
loss at the Pulp Mill is about $4,000.
The whole west end of town was nm
der water for twenty-four hours. All
had to move their effects to the sec
ond story and then in some cases the
water reached them. Those driven
from their homes were kindly cared
Tor by the people in the upper end Of
town. @
1t was reported in this place yester-
day that the body of stranger had
been found seated in buggy on an
island i'll the river, in the vicinity of
Dam No. 5, and 10 the buggy was also
the dead body of a horse.
The loss of life by the recent foods
50 far as reported in Maryland was as
follows: Joseph Creager, of Letters
burg, drowned in Antietam creek:
George Derrick, ofTrevancon mills,
drowned in Pipe creek; Mrs. Charles
McFadden, of TaneytoWn, drowned
IN the creek near that place William
Hudson, of Orange Grove, drowned
in the Patapsco; Miss Maggie Moore,
Of Taneytown, drowned in the creek
near that place; colOred man, name
not given, drowned IN Wicomico Co;
James Lawson, of Monrovia, Freder-
ick county, drowned in the Monoca.
cy; Theodore Wolf, Of this place,
drowned in the Potomac.