The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-08-21
THE MARYLAND CYCLONE
Heavy Losses Reported From Kent
and Cecil Counties.
Acres of Fruit and Vegetable Crops
Destroyed by Wind and Hail.
Many Buildings Observation-Disclosures
and Grnnuries Reduced to Debris.
Roads Blocked and Wires Down

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CHEsTERToWN. Nd, Aug 21.-The
damage from the terrific storm of Satur-
day night is variousIy estimated at from
$75, Geo to $S0000 in the lower section OF
Kent county, through which it passed.
Many buildings were wrecked, while the
damage to the fruit and corn crops was
total in the half-mile wide belt OF country
through which the hail and wind swept
At Worton Station the town hall, large
two-story building, was smashed into
spIinters and four carriages and other ar
ticles stored in it were ruined. The barn
and granary of H. C. Willis, in which were
stored $500 bushels of wheat and farming
implements was wrecked The barn OF
Charles Jessop, in which were 1,600 BUSH
els of wheat, was also demolished and the
wheat damaged. A dwelling in process OF
construction on the farm OF l. r. Leaver-
ton was broken into kindling wood. A limb
blown from shade tree on the farm OF
Judge Joseph A Wickes was dashed
through one end of the residence. the
chimneys were lifted up and landed IN the
yard.
Forty-fve feet VI Tie wharf Of Capt.
Robert S. Emery. in Queen Anne on Ches-
ter River, were ripped up bodily Sheds
were torn TO pieces as though they mad
been made of paper.
1t is impossible to estimate the less IN
| fruit and tomatoes. l. R. beaverton, who
| had fully $500 bi skets Of fruit, has none
! left w. Tilden 9rice has thousands OF
! baskets bruised al d broken by the han
! scattered over the ground. These are
i only few of maay similar reports, Or
/ chards are uprooted and cornfeIdS ruined
/ Mr. Eliason says that the hail not only cut
| off his blades, but literally husked ms
! corn.
Some Of the finest timber in the county
/ is destroyed large hickory and oak trees
| and hundreds of shade trees having been
! wrenched off as though they were straWs.
| The tomato crop was literally beaten into
/ the ground.
! One gentleman having his family OF tour
| in a Dayton wagon turned the back OF the
| vehicle TO the storm The wind picked it
I'D and hurled it and its occupants complete
! w over the horse. Another man drove IN
! der a shed on Harrison W. VickerS' farm
! to escape the storm The shed was blown
down on him. Windmills were broken,
| roofs torn off, and other damage done.
On a farm tenanted by Robert r. Hatch
erson sheds were demolished and valuable
! machinery damaged. \ large shade tree
was driven into the residence of John r,
/ Copper On farm owned by Harrison V
/ Vickers and tenanted by William K.
/ Claugh shedding under which was stored
| hundreds of dollars worth of valuable MA
chinery was razed to the ground doing
great damage to the farming implements
! stored there.
| All agree that it was the most destruc-
| tive storm in Kent county since The cycloRs
| which caused such destruction to life at
| Still Pond some years ago
| FTKTON. M. Aug. 21-Cecil county
details of Saturdays storm show that the
| farmers have lost thousands OF dollars by
| the damage to their cornhelds in addition
| to the loss OF buildings, with the entire
| destruction Of the tomato crop
| The storm broke over the Hartford and
| PENNSYLVANIA line about ) o'clock in the
| afternoon. Huge trees were torn up by
| the roots or snapped of like pipestems-
| The haistones were as large as hens eggs
| and leveled whole fields OF corn. destroy
| ing the entire tomato crop of the Eighth
! district of CEct county. Fruit trees also
| suffered greatly aud thousands of baskets
| OF apples and peaches were beaten from
! the trees by the hail and wind For sew
| eral hours after the storm large piles OF
| hail could be seen along the roads.d6s and
| could be scooped up by the bucketful- On
the farm of A r Crothers his corn crop
OF thiTty-ffye acres was ruined. Nothing
but q few stalks remaip Of what promised
| to be one of the largest crops for years.
| The blades and ears were cut OF. and II
| many instances the stalks were almost
severed by the force of the hall
The Eighth district Of Cecil county mas
a number of canning factories. and the
owners had made great preparations for
packing fruit The storm OF Saturday will
cause the canueries at lakewood, Como
wingo, and Eaines Station to abandon bust
ness, and this VIII throw 2 large number
of people out of employment.
In some parts OF the Eighth district the
/ roads are impossible owing 10 the trees
| ard other debris lying in the path Of
/ travel At the residence CT Charles H.
/ McCuigan the wind blew out several win
| dows, sash and ALL and for a time the
/ household was in q panic. Pictures and
/ other bric-a- br2c from the walls were sent
| flying through the rooms and the mattress
on one of the beds was caught by the
wind and thrown TO the floor. Hundreds
of panes of glass were broken by the hail.
Among those who Will be heavy losers
by the storm are Mrs. Margaret E Dunn,
! William A Montgomery, William M Full
ton and Jacob H Kirk. near lakewood,
who had their peach orchards ruined and
| all their fruit knocked from the trees. The
| barn on the farm Of Mrs Margaret E
| Dunn was blown down, While the telegraph
! and telephone lines of the American Teie-
! phone and Telegraph Company Of Bald-
| more city We're considerably damaged, in
! some places the wires and poles being
| down.
The steepfe on the Methodist Church at
| Pleasant Grove was blown down About
! sixty feet of the roof was carried from the
! bridge which crosses the Susquehanna Riv-
| er at Conowingo- A number of stables.
corn cribs and other outbuildings were
| demolished The damage to the Methodist
| Episcopal Church at lakewood viii be con-
| siderable as several windows were blown
out and the glass shattered into fragments
by the hailstones. Il is estimated that the
total damage in Cecil county will reach
S25, 600 to $4,000
FAMOUS POPLAR TREE GONE.
Forest Monarch Feiled by the Mary