Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-20
THE UPPER POTOMAC.
Railway Traffic Delayed by Washouts
and IandslideS.

CUMBERLAND, Md. March 20.-Flood
conditions were more threatening last night
than at any time during the food period OF
last week In two hours last night the
Potomac rose eighteen inches here, and Is
still rising. 1t is now about as high as the
highest stage of last week, and there is
every indication that It will go higher and
will back up Wills creek, which Is also as
high as it was last week. The rear Of the
properties on North Mechanic street along
Wills creek are now flooded The same
conditions prevail at Ridgely. opposite
Cumberland. The water is flooding Paca
and other low streets in Cumberland.
At railroad headquarters much trouble Is
feared. This evening at Patterson's creek.
nine miles east of Cumberland, the water
was within two feet of the girder of the
Baltimore and Ohio bridge. The company
has large forces of men at various points
east of here for emergencies. IT may. be
necessary to weigh down bridges with
loaded steel scows. The Potomac river at
Piedmont is very high and the water has
reached the lower streets All along the
Baltimore and Ohio below here the rise Is
very rapid. At the present rate of rise 1t
will not take long to reach the tracks at
Sir Johns run; the lowest .'oint. AT Paw
Paw which is below Pattersons creek and
the south branch tributaries, which are
torrents the rise is alarmingly fast.
The Baltimore and Ohio was obliged TO
go back to consolidating trains here last
night. Trains l and I for the Baltimore
and Ohio Southwestern We're made INTO one.
Some trains have passed through here from
Cincinnati and st. Louis, but on an average
have been day late. They are detoured
via Columbus Railroad officials say that
the recovery on both the Baltimore and
Ohio Southwestern and the Pittsburg divl-
sion has been very slow from last week
experience and they fear all that mas been
done toward repairing damage Will DE un-
~ l.
timore and Ohio Southwestern between
Parkersburg and Chillicothe is in bad shape
and only one track can be USED between
Connellsville and Pittsburg, whiie between
lockwood and Connellsville IT is zigzag
from one track to another. At scores OF
places the track has been completely I'M
dermined.
Frankyille. Nd on the seventeen-mle grade
of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad. delay
ing train No. from ST. Louis. On the
Western Maryland railroad slide oc-
CURED at Nethken, near Shaw, greatly de-
LAYING traffic. The county road retaining
wall along the Western Maryland tracks
near Westernport felli over on the tracks
today, imperiling trains. 1t required six
hours to clear away the debris. Trains
were detoured over the Baltimore and Ohio
road between Rawlings and West Virginia
Junction.
Georges creek is very high. At Iona
coming the Easements of buildings are food
ed People are very apprehensive that the
flood will enter the business section. At
Barton Georges creek is much higher than
at Lonaconing. and is inundating the low
lands.
The lowlands along Connellsville division
are overlooked. In places trains~yesterday
were Obliged to move carefully through
from eighteen inches to two feet OF water.
At Hyndman, fourteen miles from Cumber-
land, the water was over the baltimore
and Ohio tracks. The streets in the lower
part of the town are Inundated. a big
landslide beyond Connesvllle delayed all
trains.