The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-06-06

Enormous Damage at Baltimore an,

Enormous Damage at Baltimore and
Other Pc hts by the Floods.
BALTIMORE. Md, June 3.-Maryland
suffered severely from the storms ravages.
Mere than $1,000, 900 worth of property
has been destroyed and over half dozen
lives lost Along the line of the Potomac
peake & Ohio canal is probably damag ed
beyond repair.
In western Maryland the Monacacv river
overf1owed its banks and destroyed vast
amount of property. In Frederick the
people did not go to bed all night 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
working During the night an electric
light wire fell across the Western Union
telegraph wires sending current of fire
into the office of the telegraph company
that burnt out the switch board and
nearly caused the destruction of the First
National bank building by fire.
At Taneytown, about seventeen miles
from frederick, Mrs. Charles McFadden
and Miss Maggie Moore we e drowned.
They were in carriage attempting to
ford stream when the vehicle was washed
away. The driver managed to escape.
At Harmony Grove, near Frederick,
Miss Carrie Kefauver was to have been
married to j. Harry Stokes of Emmets-
burg, Md, 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, warping the ma
chinery and completely destroying the
fabrics
No part of Washington county escaped.
All the streams became raging torrents,
and property near them were either inan-
dated or entirely swept away. No esti nate
can be made o. the damage done, but 1T
will reach hundreds of thousands.
The railroads entering Hagerstown have
also sustained great damage, and on sew
eral of item no trains arrived to-day. The
greatest loser is tle Cumberland Valley.
Its new iron bridge across the Potomac
river went down. Nothing is left of the
structure except the span across the canal.
Tie original cost of the bridge was
$4,000
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 Dephones
chair factory and paint shop were swept
away, causing loss of $1,000.
Soon otter the factory gave way Theo-
dore Wolfe, aged Is, son of Louis R.
Wolfe, and Samuel Corbett, both of Will
Transport, started in boat to recover sew
eral chairs. While engaged III doing so
young Wolfe fell into the river and was
drowned. The houses Of William Bouzhoff
and A. Ens;nger, a short distance above
Williamsport, were both washed away
Two miles below Williamsport several
houses were swept away, one belonging to
Patrick Collins and another the property
of the canal company.
At Falling Waters several houses have
also been 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 Bel.