Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1914-07-02
Heavy Rain and Hail Storms
In Parts County and State.
Ground Soaked and Vegetables
and Crops HELPED.
and Crops Helped.

and Crops Helped.
During the past ten days thunder
storms have been numerous, but many
of them have passed around this immed.
late vicinity, missing US by mile or two.
The ground was dry and growing crops
needed rain very much.
Last Sunday morning shortly after one
o'clock rain began falling here and at
three O'Clock the thunder, lightning and
rain was heavy. The rain continued at
intervals several hours, during which time
considerable water fell.
Sunday afternoon the heaviest rain
and hail storm of the season passed over
Frederick county to the south of Thur
mont Many persons at this place watch
ed the clouds and listened to the roar of
what was evidently violent storm high
in the air. The Frederick Post Monday
morning reporting this storm. says:
thousands of dollars in damage was
caused to crops and vegetables in Fred
erick county yesterday when hail and
rain storm broke in Frederick county,
passing almost through the center of the
County from west to east. 1t was almost
a repetition of the two hundred thousand
dollar hail storm of just year ago,
which beat the wheat flat to the earth
and stripped the corn from the stalks
and annihilated the crops of truckers.
The crops of the county were saved by
the absence of anything like hurricane.
Farmers got nervous, and justly so.
when they saw hail stones jumping from
the paths to their porches, two and three
quarters inches in diameter. That is
what they measured at 3.l5 O'Clock in
the vicinity of New London, and two
hours later the ground was covered with
hail the size of marbles. In Frederick
the hail was the size of walnuts, and in
Middletown and Mt. Pleasant the hail
stones were slightly larger.
1T was freakish storm. Buckeyes
town got neither hail nor rain. Myers
vile had only small amount of and
dashing rain. Thurmont escaped from
the hail as did Emmitsburg, but from
Middletown to Frederick, to Mt. Pleasant
to New Market, the hail left path that
will mean loss of many dollars to crops,
but not nearly so great as the storm OF
a year ago."
Cambridge, Md, June ga wind and
rain storm rivaling in violence any known
in this section for 40 years swept over
the Eastern Shore last night. 1t began
about Z O'Clock and continued almost
without diminution until midnight.
Heavy damage was done by the wind
to shipping. At Tilghman's harbor four
boats, three schooners and one bugeye,
were swamped.
The storm was accompanied by heavy
rain, which choked the sewers here and
flooded the streets. The wind and fall
ing trees put the electric light, telegraph
and telephone wires out of commission
and Cambridge spent the night in dark
ness and isolation. No message could be
sent or received by either telegraph or
telephone.
The grandstand at the fair ground, just
completed at cost of Sc, 900, which was
to have been turned over to the associa-
ton today, was blown fiat.
St. Michaels, Md, June 20. delayed
and meagre reports from outlying dis
tricts of Talbot county indicate that Sun
day nights storm has done thousands of
dollars worth of damage. Practically
every telegraph and telephone wire in
the county is down. In some sections
lightning wrought havoc, while in others
the principal damage was done by wind
and hail.
Prince Frederick, Md, June 29.-An
electrical storm swept over Calvert coun-
ty yesterday, doing considerable damage.
The county roads were badly washed by
the heavy rainfall and telephone service
was greatly impaired.
Cumberland, Md, June %. "A terrific
storm with much lightning broke here
early this morning and continued several
hours. The downpour was the heaviest
of the season, flooding the streets and
carrying much debris down the hillsides
into the city.
On Sunday afternoon three horses at
tached to buggies and tied to hitching
rack at the Feagaville Lutheran church,
this county, were struck and killed by
lightning. The owners of the horses
were in church at the time.
In seven days, two thousand one hun
dred stations of the Chesapeake and Po-
tomac Telephone Company of Frederick
were put out of service by electrical
storms, which have swooped down on
some part of Frederick county with dis
concerning regularity during the past
seven days. The storm of Saturday
afternoon and Sunday was the climax.
About 800 stations were out of service
Monday morning when the plant wire
chief reported for work.