Catoctin clarion., 1889-06-06
INCrDENTs OF THE FLOOD.-A flint rock,

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so heavy that two horses could not drag or
roll it, has entirely disappeared from posi-
ton that it held in gully near Mr.. VIM.
Flohrs house north of this place.
Mr.. John Jones carried his family out OF
the house when the stream broke over the
bank above bis mill and Mr.. VIM H.Damuth
took his wife and children out Of the house
on horseback.
The editor of THE CLARION gained lots of
cheap notoriety by losing his foothold in the
current while urging badly frightened COW
to fee from the destroying element he was
grabbed and pulled out yaliantly by Mr.
Charles G. Black, who to render the scene
more tragical ducked the lantern under the
water and cnveloped the result in doubt and
darkness.
One of our citizens declined to take many
risks in an effort to save live stock on the
grounds that "hc didn't want to drown while
his wife was in Washington.
Mr. William Miller, schoOl-tcachcr living
on Monocacy near Appold's, while looking
for some cattle, waded off the bank into Mo-
nocacy: he succeeded in catching hold of and
climbing Il tree. This occurred on Friday
afternoon he remained in the tree over
night and on Saturday Mr.. Joshua Ohler
undertook to rescue him in a boat, when the
boat capszed and Mr. Ohlcr swan for and
climbed into another tree. The two remain.
ed there for several hours when they were
rescued.
The w. M. r. r. authorities asked the M.
V. r. r. engineer, Mr.. j. Il. Wacschc about
4 O'Clock Saturday morning to take seven
heavily loaded cars, that were standing at
this point, down to the Monocacy bridge
When they arrived there, at the east end Of
the bridge the water was rushing over the
track. The cars were showed on the bridge,
the men remaining on them to tighten the
brakes 1t is believed that three hundred
thousand pounds thus placed on the bridge
saved it.
Two large frogs fell in this town during
| Fridays heavy rains one on the pavement
in front of the Morayian Church was heard
fall and picked up by Mr.. J. II. Cover: and
another in front of Mr.. Geo. W. Stocksdalc's
warehouse was seen to fall by MIR. Horatio
Fogle. TheySwerc each about half.grown
more runs.
Milcr's Bridge the old red land (or water)
mark, that has sat successfully astridc the
| floods of more than half a century, tloatcd to
within sight of its sister of the Woodsboro
& Crcagcrstown turnpike where it now lies
dismanlled wreck. The latter had been
lifted from its foundation before isarrival
One of the not wholly Objectionable conse-
qucnces of the great fool will probably be
the solution of the G. Il O. canal problem.
1t will likely have been damaged beyond
repair
Mcchanicstown will he the terminus of the
Nam Stem of the w. NJ II. II. for ten days
or two weeks. Trans will &c: through to
Hagcrstown via. Emory Grove, Hanoyer and
the Tape Line to Blue Ridge Summit.
Only those who have seen the rush Of wa
ter in a flooded mountain stream have even
Our stream passes along here with fall Of
probably 100 feet to the mile and its fury on
last Friday was calculated to tame those who
approached it.
Mr. John Jones' splendid lot and orchard
below his residence is now dreary waste,
the soil gone, great gullies washed through
it and piles of stone its most prominent fea-
turc.
The rear of Cornelius Dubels property
and his nice orchard is now the new bed OF
the creek.
On Mr. James Mackley's property are nc
cumulated in broken and tangled mass
against his corn crib and hog pen, the out
buildings of three properties, fences, logs,
rocks and other Debris.
MIR. William I.idie's lot IS q deep gully;
his spring IS covered up and his fences gone.
One OF Mr.. Tip Mackley's gardens looks
like the bed of mountain stream and his
back porch thrown out into the yard under
lot of debris
AT Mr.. VIM II Damuth's the garden is
onehalf gone, his wagon sheds upset and
twisted about the fence and pavement in
front of his house torn to pieces and the
yard east Of the house torn out at places
leaving holes big enough to bury hogshead
Mr.. j. L. Martin loses more than half of
his garden: in its place are rocks
The stream broke ou at the fording above
Jones Mill a portion followed the road, the
larger part rushed across the field in front of
Mrs. Sarah Willhidc's home, to fal! into the
road below the mill and help swell the tor.
rent that rushed over w. Main,st. and the
! properties thereon.
The bridge at the Willde property west
of town and the one in the mountain two
miles above town have been washed away.
The bridge on the F. & +. turnpike south of
town was moved about SIX inches and that
one at the Lime kilns south of town on the
Creagerstowr road is gone. High Run rose
to high water mark but the Water Company's
dam at the reservoir withstood its fury. It
has suffered some from the washing of the
banks on each side of the CRIB.
AT Franklinville the two bridges on the
F. & E. turnpike that span Owens Creek are
gone and the pike terribly torn out. The
bridge on the turnpike just north of Catoctin
Furnaces. put there after TIE freshet of 1886,
has been again washed away.
Mr.. Harry Stokes Of Emmitsburg was to