The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1892-07-30
THREE FIRES AT ONE TIME.
lightning Strikes and Sets Fire to rhres
Buildings, Including the Walden
Stables at Middleburg.
FOURTEEN RACERS BURNED TO pgArH.

Passeu over Cafroll ON Friday night of last
week; The lightning was continuous and
was The most rivld witnessed here for some
years. The rainfall was heavy, the thunder
terrific and the electrical display awe.insnir.
ing. Rain began falling about s o'clock. and
at times was very heavy. Corn in places was
beaten HAT to the ground and roads and fields
washed.
The Lightning was very destructive, caus
ing three fires, striking two other houses.
killing stock and stunning people. In West.
minister huge hole was torn in the roof of
the residence of Mr.. George Six, on Green
street None Of the family were affected,
and the heavy rain prevented the building
from burning. This was about 10. 80 o. clock
and at the same time Miss Marie Koch, a
guest at Winchester Place, some three or
four hundred yards away, was rendered I'M
conscious by the conclusion, and remained so
for three hours.
About this hour, 1890, lightning started
fires IN three places, widely separated, and
the destruction wrought amounts to many
thousands of dollars.
A disastrous confagration at the racing
stock farm of Mr.. r. Wyndham Walden,
Bollingbroke, near Middleburg, was one of
the results of the great electrical storm.
Lightning struck the principal stable on
the place and the structure was soon in
flames. The wind swept the fire through the
stables, and all efforts to extinguish it were
unavailiDg.
The buildings destroyed were the main
stable, 100 feet by 40 feet, the covering Of an
| eliptical training track one eighth of mile
around the stable, and a small stable outside
of the track, with twenty-fi or thirty stalls
Fourteen colts and FLIES of great value
persisted in the flames.
The night Waterman discovered the fire
just after the lightning struck the building
but the flames spread so quickly that the
stable boys, who where sleeping in the second
story, were aroused and rescued with diff
Guilty. They barely escaped with their lives.
There were forty-one animals in the burned
buildings, twenty seven of which were rescu-
ed. Among these was the stallion Galore,
valued at $4,000. Dan MeCarty, veteran
trainer, who has been with Mr.. Walden
twenty five years, is entitled to the credit of
saving this valuable animal.
About seventy-fve tons of hay and straw
were burned. The loss on buildings and
contents, other than horses, is $4,000 to
SIG, 900. The horses were uninsured. The
buildings were insured in the Royal of Lon
don, James Shriver agent at Westminster.
His son, Mr. Robert Walden, says that
100000 would not have purchased them.
The animals destroyed were:
Fauvette, three yearling imp. oh. f., by
Townmore, out Of ChOpet.
Spinalong, three yearling br. f., by Duke
of Montrose, out of Spnaway. The latter
cost $500 as a yearling and won last year
SIS, 900.
A black colt by Britannia, out CT Merry
Corbett; one of the best in the stables and
very valuable.
A black colt by Britannia, out of LOnigue.
A black colt by Britannia, cut of Verona.
Ia LII n,,f g
tradiction, the latter being full sister of the
great English winner, Paradox. Contradic-
ton cost $l3, 900 as a yearling.
A black colt by MARYLAND, out of Prudery
A bay FLY, by Britennic, out of Minnie Me-,
dam of Holiday, Antrim and other flyers; very
promising.
A black flly, by Tom Ochiltree, out of
Fair Water, whose dam was Laughing Water.
brown FLY, by Britannia, out of Miasma,
Hominy, brown flly, by Britannia, out OF
Polonaise; very promising animal.
A chestnut filly, out of Mamie Russell, full
sister of Russell, whose winnings during the
last three years were $50, 900.
brown filly, by Tom Ochiltree, out of
Allie Slade, full sister of Exotic and Mag
gle Mitchell; a valuable animal.
One of the animals saved is Il bay colt by
Longfellow, yearling, for which Mr.. Walden
recently paid $4,000.
There are on the place nearly hundred
aud fifty valuable racers, most OF which were
in stables at some distance from the burned
buildings.
The pouring rain alone prevented the des-
truction of much larger amount of property
by extinguishing the burning sparks winch
hoated in the air for nearly mile.
Mr. Walden was at the Monmouth races
when telegram informed him OF the hire.
He said-'There were four yearlings in the
lot that | would have matched against any
four in the world. They were by Britannia,
and their trials were wonderful. There was
n colt out of a sister TO Freeland and "a flly
ont of a Sterling mare that were nothing
short of phenomenons. They were the best
yearlings we ever had.
Mr.. John A. Morris, in speaking OF his loss,
said 81 would rather have lost thirty or forty
of my other horses than four of the Britannia
yearlings."
THE STABLES TO BE REBUILT.
Preparations are being made to rebuild the
Bollingbrook racing stables. Mr. Walden's
carpenter, David Biddinger, is now visiting
Wiiiamsport and other lumber regions pur-
chasing lumber for the new stables, which
will be much larger and more convenient
than the old Mr.. X. W. Walden, who re-
turned home on business pertaining to the
recent fire, left on Tuesday for Monmouth
Park and other race courses, where he has
his horses.
FIRE NEAR PLEASANT VALLEY.
The barn of MFs. Lydia Myers, about u
mile from Pleasant Valley was struck by
lightning about the time that the Walden
stables we're struck. 1t was totally destroyed
together with 400 bushels Of corn and large
quantities of wheat and rye in the straw hay, DC.
One COW was killed by the bolt, but the re-
manning stock was safely gotten out before
the flames overlook them. The loss is 81 800;
insured in the Dug Hill Company for Sl,O
THE THIRD FIRE.
The third fire visible was the burning barn
of Adam Seachrist, of Hopewell Centre, over
in York county, Pa. With the barn were
consumed It's bushels of old wheat, 600
bushels of unthreshed wheat, 100 bushels OF
oats, 100 bushels of corn, so tons of hay,
LOT oc farming implements and a tobacco and
hay shed, containing IA tons OF baled hay.
There was a small insurance IN the Farmers
Mutual of York county.
OTHER EFFECTS OF THE STORM.
Mr.. David Kemper's house, in Myers dis
trict, was also struck and the gable end badly
damaged Mrs. Kemper was Frustrated and
rendered unconscious for some time. Her
babe, which she was lifting from the cradle
at the time, was uninjured. valuable
horse belonging to Mr. George W. Shank, OF
Middeburg, was struck by lightning and kill
ed in the field.
Two Serious Accidents.
Abram Willet, of Frizellburg, met with a
severe accident few days ago. Nhle haul
ing a load of boards and posts TO one of his
lots, the posts slipped forward on his horses,
causing them to run Mr.. Willet was thrown
of, and the posts on him, causing the fra cture
of his left arm near the shoulder joint and the
fracture of rib and brnising his body badly:
DR.. j. Rinehart was summoned, and he called
DIR. NJ. l.. Bot, of this city, in consulta-
=. H.. rahnnah the fractnras and Mr..