The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-09-20
Disastrous Storm.
RAIN, HAIL, WIND ND
LIGHTNING.
Does Great Damage to Prop
erty in City and County
Most Severe Visitation


Most Severe Visitation
Ever Known in this Section.
One of the most disastrous
wind, rain and hail storms that
has ever visited this section of
the State, passed over this city
last Sunday afternoon. about
three o'clock and continued for
about two hours to destroy. de.
vastate and damage property in
the city and county to the extent
of many thousands of dollars and
to cause as much more to stand.
ing crops and fruit and shade
trees.
The direction of the storm was
from the southwest until the
northeastern end of town was
reached, when the wind veered
to the northeast and blew a hur.
ricsne. 1t was a cyclone and
cloudburst combined.
For nearly an hour the wind
ragged, unrooting houses, break
ing window panes, tearing up
trees and doing kindred damage.
The upper section of the city
felt the force of the storm at it's
worst and showed the terrible
effects.
There was great demand Mon
day morning for material and
many of those whose property
was injured are yet waiting their
turn to have the same repaired.
1t would require columns of
space to enumerate all the dam
age done by the storm, but
drive or walk about the out.
skirts of the city will reveal
enough to show its terrible force
and destructiveness.
The properties that suffered
the greatest are as follows:
The new house of Mr.. Dennis
Fahrney on Dill avenue. Just put
under roof-tOp story blown off
and general wreck.
John Filby'S Road House.
story blown off and great damage
done by wind and water.
Montevue Hospital. nearly a
thousand panes of glass in the
windows broken by the hail.
The row of houses recently
erected on the site Of the old
Salvation Army Barracks, corner
of Fourth and Bentz Street.-The
entire roof was blown off and the
water soaked through doing great
damage.
AT Poplar Terrace, the home
of General l.. Victor Baughman,
the storm had a wide sweep and
did much damage. Besides sew
eral fine shade trees blown down,
two horses were kilIed-one by
lightning and the other drowned.
A large tank on the top of the
house was swept away and the
windows in the main house and
out houses broken by the heavy
fall of hail, which was as large as
walnuts. A stand by the race
track was blown across a field
into the orchard.
At Croft Park many large trees
were blown down, fencing de
stroyed and glass broken.
A portion of the roof of st.
Johns Catholic Church was
/ blown off and the rain did some
damage to the ceiling
a large portion of the roof of
the Womans' College was blown
off and some damage was done
by the rain soaking in the labo-
ratory.
The Union Knitting Mills was
partially unroofed, but no dam
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Great damage was done to the
electric, telegraph and telephone
lines in the city and county.
They are getting in better shape
now and force of hands have
been Strengthening things out for
each of the companies.
The roof of the boiler house of
the Frederick Electric Light and
Power Company was blown off
and the smoke stacks twisted out
of place.
The big ice house of Mr.. Will
liam Anderson, near town, was
blown down and his barn injured.
1t is said that about 2.05 inches
of rain fell during the storm.
Carroll Creek was a raging tor
rent and was much out of bank.
Reports from the county show
thot whilst great damage was
done, the path of the storm was
limited in width. 1t was purely
local disturbance, as no report
of its ravages comes from outside
of the county.
In Middletown Valley consider.
able damage was done, several
barns being wre cked and houses