Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1889-06-07
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the ties. on which the rails were SUI
fastened, were seen topass this place
and are now lying in the drift pile at
Bowers's. This bridge was carried
off in III. and when rebuilt was put
up five feet higher, but even that was
not enough. The loss to the railroad
company is 10000.
At Mercerville-Henry s. Eavey $
two warehouses, valued at 80, OOO, were
taken from their foundations; In these
were 1850 worth of wheat and corn
belonging to Boyer & Heard, all OF
which vas lost; Sheriff Gatrell lost
from this point $4,000 worth of prop
erty in saw-mill, canal-boats, mules,
etc. The Nancy Bowers property was
completely cleaned out.
Henry G. Burgan lost his dwelling
house at Dam No. 4. The pulp mill
at Dam No. is safe, but lost 80 tons
of pulp and 300 cords of wood. The
lock house at the head of the five-mile
level was moved some distance down
the river, and the brick house at john
sons lock was badly damaged.
1t is reported that small house on
Mr.. B. +. Harrison's farm, above Dam
No. 4, has disappeared entirely, with
an old negro woman who lived in it.
AT THE CEMENT MILLS.
The Potomac Cement Mill, below
Shepherdstown, sustained damage to
the amount, probably, of couple OF
thousand dollars. Superintendent
Brown says about 1000 barrels of
cement were lost. The water reached
the second story of the mill. Every
effort was made to save the cement,
but the water rose so rapidly that lit
tie could be done The stables and
blacksmith shop were lost, and the
shedding and railroad at the kilns
swept away. The dam is all right, so
for as known. The warehouse on the
canal bank was carried of.
The Antietam Cement Works at
| the Blackford farm sustained heavy
/ loss. We understand that 1,500 bar
rels of cement were ruined. The
cooper shop and lot of barrels
foated off, and the warehouse was
moved from its foundations, breaking
in two when the waters subsidized.
| Several small buildings were carried
away. The machinery was cover ed
with mud
WHERE THE DRIFT LODGED.
About three miles below Shepherds
town, on the bottom lands of Mr.. Geo.
w. Osbourn and Mrs. Alice Bowers,
are several immense piles of drift.
| The current there set in toward shore,
and the trees across the bottom held
| the drift fast. 1t is wonderful sight,
and fine harvest for the owners OF
the land. OF course there is a great
amount of trash, but then there's lots
of valuable lumber and other things
Great quantities of good barrels, sec
tons of fencing, parts of bridges, tel
egraph poles, crossties, stairways,
doors, furniture, planks and flooring
stuff, hundreds and hundreds of logs,
parts of roofs, bundles of shingles
there is no telling what the piles do
not contain. A big portion of the
Shepherdstown bridge lies there, and
several sections of the Cumberland
Valley Railroad bridge. Mrs. Bowers
got a number of live chickens that
floated down on the debris. Snakes
are plentiful, having been brought
down in the drift, and several big ones
have been killed. Men are now at
work getting out the valuable stuff
and piling it up Systematically. They
work on the shares, dividing half and
half with the owners of the land.
THE RAILROADS.
OF course the flood completely
blockaded all the railroads The
Shenandoah Valley Railroad ran its
last train on Friday, and not a car
moved until Sunday, when a train
ran between Hagerstown and Boyce'
The road did not suffer as greatly as
| it was feared it would. Several pieces
of trestle- work between Boyce and
Luray were moved out of line, and
along the Shenandoah river the tracks
were way under water that receding
left upon them great piles Of drift
wood. All trains are now running
regularly over the line.
The Cumberland Valley Road suf-
fered very little loss aside from the
destruction of its bridge over the Pc
tomac at Powcll's Bend.
The Western Maryland Railroad
was knocked completely out of time.
| A number of its bridges down in Car
roll county were washed away, and
great gaps in its entertainments made.
In the neighborhood of Mechanics
town there was great destruction
also, and trains could not pass that
| point until Tuesday. connection was
made with Hagerstown by Gettysburg
via its several branch lines.
The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad suf
fered terribly. From Cumberland to
Martinsburg for miles at a stretch the
tracks were submerged, in some places
being twenty feet under water. Con-
siderable damage was done along there
by landslides and washouts. At Har-
per's Ferry the loss caused by the in
jury to the trestling was very heavy.
At Sandy Hook the loss will reach
$4,000. The repair shops were car
ried off, side tracks destroyed and
havoc played generally. From that
place to Point of Rocks the damage
was great. On the Washington coun-