The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1911-06-17

Sunday was q record breaker for -
early June temperature. the m9361SJ
climbing we'll up into tie ninetteN ~.
lief came after midnirkf With nev6fo
electric storm and heavy rain foIlo&o6
BY other showers at Intervals and af63n
ON Monday morning. Monday evening
the entire seaboard. from the chesapeake
To- New England, was vfsited BIZ terri
nc electric storm, marked BY aIm1sr ~
cessant lightning. hail In many sections,
rain Of the cloud burst order and wind
that uprooted trees, prostrated tele-
phone and telegraph poles and unroofed
and wrecked buildings Gust followed
gust in this section throughout che
night and on Tuesday evening more
severe storm than that Of Monday broke
over Wilmington, and the surrounding
section
From midnight Sunday until 8 >. a.,
the rainfall at Wilmin6ton was S.77 IN
ches. Up to 5 a. m. on Monday 1.4s In
ches fell. Monday night 1O4 inches were
added. Tuesday morning 2 inches fell,
and on Tuesday evening IL inches wers
added. For ten minutes on Tuesday
evening the fall was at the rate OF 4S
inches per hour. The usual annual fall
in De- ,ware, including melted snow. II
4,.4 inches Great damage was done By
hail around Baltimore and Norfolk. and
at various points in Maryland, Including
Cecil county, where more Or less loss II
reported in Elk Neck and other sections.
Wheat and corn were beater down, not
ably in ields where the straw is long.
The storm was severe in the Fifth dis
trict with wind Of the tornado order At
Carpenters Point large trees. shedding
and fences were blown down. The large
| barn on the Simc0e place near Charles
! town, Isaac Sidwell, tenant, was blown
down. weather boarding splintering ana
heayy timbers whirled by the wind landr
ing several hundred yards away The
| stock in the basement of the barn es-
capped injury. Lightning struck a tenant
houes on the Barnes place and also the
schoolhouse at Principle Furnace. The
| wind was strong in the Fourth district
and did more or less damage. Rafters
OF George w. Biles' new warehouse at
Providence were whirled from place and
scattered. At Daniel Arbuckle's and
Thomas Davis houses limbs and tree
were blown upon the houses The big
tree that gives name to White Oak
School near Calvert, was twisted and
broken about ten feet from the ground.
: There was high tide in Elk River
and fears of freshet In the Big Elk with
possible damage to the launch fleet were
felt, but luckily it did not result Tele-
graph and telephone service was badly
crippled and news was wired with diff
Guilty over roundabout circuits Trees
falling on the tracks blocked trains on
the p, B. & W., B. & o. and c. & P. D.
r. r., and trains were many hours late
on all lines.
| Large limbs of trees fell on thewires
Of the Gilpin's Falls Electric Company
on Monday night, and for several hours
Elkton was in darkness. Lightning early
! in the storm struck chimney of H..
/ M. McCullough's residence on East Main
street, knocking out bricks and causing
plaster to fall in one of the rooms.
Howard Vincent's house on West High
street was also struck and weather
boarding was ripped, a waterspout torn
off and plaster broken. Mr.. Vincent and
his mother-in were stunned. two
year old colt owned by Robert Jaquette
was killed in pasture field on the Gill
pin (Bush) farm near town. Frank D.
| Pratt, of Elkton, operator at the B. J.
tower, above the Big Elk bridge, near
town, was stunned by lightning Just as
he was about to give the clear track sig
nal to the 6.45 northbound express Fail
ing to get the signal. trainmen went to
the tower and foun him prostrated. He
was put on the next train south and
brought to his home, where he is recov-
ering. At Newark the force of the wind
was cyclonic. Many trees were blown
down or stripped of branches, and tele-
phone an delectric light wires were
broken. The cupola of the barn on the
Daniel Thompson farm was blown off,
and mnay apple trees were uprooted
The barn on the Cook place, James
Crossan, tenant, was unroofed. Wheat
and corn were beaten down around
Cooch's and Glasgow. Roads were badly
washed in many sections of Cecil and
New Castle counties.