The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1917-06-08
SIXTY SQUARE MILES
DEVASTATED.
CARROLL COUNTY FARMERS WILL LOSE
$5OO,OOO BY HAIL STORM WORST
DESTRUCTION EVER KNOWN--FIELDS
AND GARDENS BARREN BARNS
DAMAGED-TREES DESTROYED
TONS OF GLASS SMASHED IN
HOUSES, &C.

A survey made yesterday Of the dam
age done by the terrific hail and wind
storm that swept through territory
of 80 square miles OF Carroll county
late Wednesday afternoon proves It
to be the worst clamity that has
struck this section of Maryland in
many years.
The loss will reach more than $780,
600. Worse than the actual monetary
loss, however, is that the farmers
work upon this seasons crops has
gone for naught. 1t is too late now
to put in other crops and the pros
pective profits that were to come from
the abundant crops that are needed so
bodily at this time have been swept
away.
From the Howard county line to
Frederick county, the country is laid
low. 1t was estimated by those who
made a survey of the devastated dis
trict that Is, 900 acres of wheat, 5000
acres of corn and 5000 acres Of hap
and small crops were lost. From 300
to 400 acres of fine orchards were de-
stroyed. The trees are in such con-
dition that nothing remains but to
cut them down for firewood. 1t will
be years before the orchards can be
brought back to their former state.
An idea of the intensity of the
storm can be gathered from the fact
that fields upon which stood wheat
and grass from two to four feet high
now look like lawn in front of a
! dwelling house. The hail cut the
stems off short and the wind and wa
! ter carried the tops away. In many
" dc, Df 1h1 10ly
other fowls we're swept away.
1t is estimated that it will require
four tons Of window glass alone to
make repairs to the dwellings in the
section hardest hit.
! Throughout the 90 square miles
that was laid low farming will be at a
standstill for weeks. A meeting was
held Yesterday afternoon in the Office
of the B. F. Shriver Company, with
the attendance of nearly every busi-
ness man of this city. The meeting
was called for the purpose OF sending
out relief to all farmers in this county
who have suffered losses.
! After the meeting committee COM
posed of Joseph n. Shriver, Bernard
Shriver, W. Frank Thomas, William
Mather and States Attorney Sea-
fortunate farmers to ascertain what
help they would need most and report
at a special meeting which was held
in the evening. Robert T. and James
Shriver went to Sykesville, and met
ex-senator Johnnie Z. BeaSman, and
arranged for a meeting to be held in
the Lyceum Hall tonight for the pur--
pose of considering ways and means
hn 70 J1yh
were dstroyed.
! The Shriver Company has brought
| five tractors from its farms to this
city for the purpose OF sending them
to any farmer who needs them. All
crops on three of the ShriVer COM
panys farms are a total loss.
In the vicinity of Gambler barns we're
unroofed and many thousands of win
dow glasses were broken in DWELL
ings. The large windows in Zion
Church were shattered.
The high water in Morgan's Run
carried cow away from Charles
Miners place Another COW was killed
, by being pelted to death by hailstones.
! Loss at Statewood-Lester s. Pat
terson, $4,000 in crops; l.. Calvin Jor-
dan $4,000 in crops and buildings;
in the village had from 10 to 60 win
dow glasses shattered.
At Shipley-Clarence and William
Caple $500 in crops and buildings;
Leo Davis $250O in crops; Luther L.
Zahn $4,000 in crops and buildings.
John T. Wagner $4,000 in crops and
buildings; John Schneider $1,000 IN
crops and buildings; J. P. Wilhide
$1,000 in crops and number of chick
ems were also killed.
At Spring Mills-Mrs Catherine
Wagner's loss to crops, $3500 Every
other farmer West of the above place
sustained heavy losses.
At Sykesville there was more than
100000 damage in the neighborhood.
All the wheat crops are gone. The
corn has been washed away, but il is
not too late to replace it. All the
orchads in this section have been
ruined. Roads were like rivers after
the cloudburst, and several bridges
were carried away.
Springfield Hospital for the insane
lost about $4,000. All the green
houses were wiped out and the vege-
tah