The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-07-06
GREAT FLOOD IN BALTIMORE
Many of the Streets Under Water--Im-
 mense Amount of Damage.

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 Baltimore, July 5. An immense amount of damage which cannot yet even be estimated, owing to interrup- tion of communication by wire with the affected territory, was done in Balti- more city and county tonight by heavy rains eliminating in a cloudburst in the vicinity of Timonium, small sta-
 tion on the Northern Central railway, about ten miles from Baltimore. The Green Spring, Western Run and Gun
 powder valleys sent torrents southward
 and through Jones' falls, a stream run ming through this city, poured a flood of water into this city which was strongly suggestive of the memorable food Of iS6S. Along the streams in the section of the county indicated bridges, houses and barns have been washed away, livestock has been drowned, rail- road tracks have been destroyed and telegraph and telephone lines have been
 broken. So far as can be learned to- nigh tthere has been no loss of human life. At Cockeysville, on the Northern Central, the Sherwood distillery, one of
 the largest in the country, is submerg- ed. All trans are being held at Lake, a station on the Northern Central,
 which crosses an arm of Lake Roland 1 at that point.
 Before midnight the first floors of the cotton mills at Woodberry were four I feet under water. 1 It is. reported that there does not re- main a bridge between Lake Roland
 and this city. The railroad tracks are five feet under water at Mount Wash lington, a suburb, and much damage has
 been done there to mills and stores and
 their contents. Fears are entertained
 for large factories at Phoenix, Warren
 and Franklinville, with which points no
 communication is to be had. Much
 damage has been done to the tracks | of the Maryland and Pennsylvania rail-
 road, and a, number of its cars have been washed away.
 l The first effects of the flood were felt | in this city after o'clock on Harrison street, the lowest in the city and upon which are located many dealers in sec- ond-hand goods and poor Hebrew and
 other families. The inflow of water to
 the street from the Falls is always g. danger signal here, and at once there was wild scramble to get stocks of
 merchandise, household effects and
 young and old members of families to | places of safety.
 So rapidly did the water rise in Har-
 rison street that fathers, bearing chil- ! dren in their backs, were compelled to wade in water up to their shoulders. A young woman attempting to get to her home in the eastern section of the city was swept into the harbor but was
 rescued by the police. A car of the Gay street line was overwhelmed by the l flood on Gay street near Harrison and | the passengers were rescued by a police patrol wagon with considerable diffic-
 culty.
 When at it's highest the water extend- ed nearly as far west as Calvert sereet
 at Pleasant and to within half block
 of the city hall on Holiday street, on which that building fronts. In the basement of the building in which the offices of the Associated Press and the Western Union Telegraph company are ! located the water was two feet deep
 and the delivery department of the Western Union company was compelled | to move.