The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1908-07-31
STORM DAMAGE
WESTERN MARYLAND RAILROAD The
GREATEST SUFFERER
Farmers Have Their Crops and Fences
Washed Away

Tho continuous rains the latter part
- Loot week and the first of the pres
VI u i"T week did considerable damage.
Co,,ino cn vegetation was beaten to the
onound bv the heavy rains, and in
$40 s nlaces whole fields of potatoes
.ano sO,no washed out. All of the streams
endowed their banks, submerging
,'oadows. inundating roads, and doing
nor,o damage to fences and bridges.
The storm that did most to cripple
.ho western Maryland was the ter
uifo downpour from 6 to 8 o'clock
Monday morning in the neighborhood
of Glyndon.
The mile of track east of Glyndon
ord west of GwyEnbroOk was so
Washed as to put a stop to all tratflc
on that line for four or five hours.
Tho track in question is that at st.
cnorpp's Station. The damage was
diecnyered shortly before s o'clock in
the morning by a track walker, and
rho news was sent up the line to Glyn-
don and Emory Grove and down the
,Nad as far as Owings Mills in time to
warn the train crews and thereby pre-
ront nossible wrecks and loss of life.
great deal of the roadbed of the
brook and Glyndon, is newly made
ground because of the recent double
tracking of the line. Because OF its
newness this ground was not especi-
allv we'll settled, and the earth be-
Meath the ties and the rails washed
completely away, leaving the track
in some places suspended, as it were,
seemingly In midair. After almost
herculean efforts of between four and
five hours the workmen got the track
in good enough shape to allow the
massage of trains. The fast mail was
the only gap-train to reach Westmin-
ster on Monday until $50 in the even
ing.
Train was made up at EMORY Grove
and the passengers and baggage was
transferred from the trains below ST.
Georges which started about 1870 a.
m. for Ragerstown, but when the train
reached Glen Falls washout had
occurred some time during the morn
ing and the train was delayed until
o'clock in the afternoon before the
necessary repairs could be made.
The power house of the United Rail-
ways ahld Electric Company at Owings
Mills was flooded about three feet
deep extingushing the fires under the
boilers and putting a stop to traffic.
The car barn was also flooded to a
depth of or feet The machinery
was seriously damaged.
The grocery store of Nh w. T. Cock
ey. Oh Gwynns Falls, betW cen Glyndon
and Climber Grove, was flooded to a
depth of four feet and quantities OF
his merchandise were washed away.
A large culvert near Gwynnbrook, on
the Western Maryland Railroad, was
washed away as were several foot
bridges. The rain was SO heavy at the
Emory Grove Camp grounds that it
beat through some of the tents and
the occupants had to seek shelter in
the tabernacle.
N The wing wall OF the mew bridge
a OyerLittle Pipe Greek ON the road from
y CnOntUwn to New Windsor just north
o. the latter place, was partly washed
"A away by Mondays storm. The damage
about $50. Walsh Bros are the con-
tractors, and they will at once repair
the damage. When this is dome, it will
be ready to receive the supersdructure.
Lightning struck the barn of Elias
y Reed, of Reese, about S.45 p. M,
-4h instant tearing one end out of
.Ae barn. The bolt went through the
@Tn but did no further damage.
About 2.45 p. m. Saturday, lightning
Muck the dwelling house of John
saarp, foreman of McGinniss dfstill-
s!, about one mile east of Tannery.
Inc bolt struck the house on both
aes, tearing the weatherboarding
Ul knocking down the chimney, and
Slung fire to the house and some
Mtllture belonging to Mr.. Duffy that
vas stored in the dwelling But for
w prompt arrival of neighbors and
uy.Uyees OF the dfstillery the house
"Oud have been consumed.
hs htae recently-constructed dwelling of
% vUan W. Weaver, about 5 miles from
"estmlnster on the Manchester road,
O'S oas struck by lightning Sunday after
IN. b"Ul and some of the weatherboard-
hs torn off. 1t was unoccupied, the
~Sue not being quite finished.
doso ruua Conaway, of Gambler, had a
mI;. cail Friday afternoon. He was
Inn l.s S way home from Finksburg sta
ddirr WIN a 4-mule team, and he was
mols mnS,us one of the mules. Lightning
and aS'aeu a! all four mules to the ground,
d1iDa a'led the one Mr. Conaway was
AaF he was not even stunned.
Arss rs' sumo eff fort he got the other
aioD mules on n}their feet. An exami-
mali boI vi the dead mule disclosed a
are ioa aOle in tlte body near the left
sidsney. night lightning struck the
dlburp' o Of Jaco2 b Marker, near Friz-
ashtIHT' ia uuianagins the building and
ln10rins ir. and Mrs Marker.