Evening star., 1924-05-12
SCORES FLEE HOMES
IN RETURN OF FLOOD
Maryland, West Virginia and
Shenandoah Valley Areas
Suffer Damage.
SMALL BRIDGES GO DOWN
Automobiles Tied gp~by High
Water on Virginia Roads.
Special Dispatch toThe Star.


CUMBERLAND, Md, May I2-
Cupbefland is again flooded, the re
suit of heavy rains, which have been
almost incessant since Saturday aft
ernoon.
Mechanic street is again torrent,
due to the overflowing Of Wills Greek,
which passes through the heart of
the city. and empties into the Potomac
here. The water is still rising and
merchants on this thoroughfare, Bal
tmore. Liberty and Pershing streets
are moving their stocks from the first
floors Many had their stocks ruined
by the sudden flood of March 20 After
last midnight many in the sections
visited by the last food began to
move. The water is rushing down
Mechanic street in front of the Eve
eighteen inches Much debris is being
washed through the streets 1t
reached six feet or more on Mechanic
street on March 90. The water is still
rising in the streets, and the outcome
cannot be foretold. The Fort Cumber-
land Hotel, which lost about $4,000
rs the result of the last flood is again
being rapidly surrounded by water
and is preparing to resist, if possible
its previous experience.
Homes Being Vacated.
People in the low sections of the
city abutting on the Potomac River
and in Ridgely, W. Va, opposite the
city, which was hard hit in March,
are again moving out, although the
flood has not reached the menacing
proportions of the last.
Piedmont, w. Va. and Western
Port and Luke, Md. the latter being
the seat of the great Luke paper
plant, which was hard hit in March,
are again flooded. The temporary
bridge erected between Piedmont and
Western Port, to take the place of
the interstate iron structure over the
Potomac carried out by the March
flood, was swept away about o'clock
this morning. 1t cost about 500
Several streets in keyser, W. Va, are
flooded.
The Salvation Army in Cumberland
has thrown open its citadel on North
Mechanic Street, where all who ap-
ply may have food and heat and the
free use of beds and blankets.
At many points east of here the
national highway is covered with
water. Motorists coming in from the
east this morning had to rum through
watar east of Hancock and west of
Sideling Hill. The water was touching
the bottoms of a number of bridges.
At Hancock the water was reaching the
homes of a number of residents in the
west end due to the backing up of
Tonoloway Creek by the Potomac IA G
natural gas supply in the Piedmont
and Westernport districts.
The Baltimore and Ohio and Western
Maryland railroads are experiencing
Valley between Cumberland and Key
SER w. Va, twenty-five miles west of
here. Railroad traffic is still open TO
points east of here.
Body Found in River.
The body of an unidentified white
man, found in the Potomac River at Sir
Johns Run, about fifty miles east of
here, yesterday, is believed to be that
of a victim of the last flood.
Charles Smith. eighteen years old
Window, w. Va, on the Western
Maryland railway, was an indirect
victim of the flood. He was on duty
with his uncle watching for land
rain when he was killed by train.
The track parellels the Potomac at
that point
The Baltimore. and Ohio reports a
100-ton landslide over two eastbound
tracks at Sir Johns Run and land
slide at Strickers, on the seventeen
mile grade. west of Piedmont. There
is also a landslide over the eastbound
tracks, one mile west of, Piedmont
and a small landslide at Cedar Cliff.
Patterson's Creek is twenty feet
above normal, but it is eight feet
below the; last flood.
Announcement was made here to-
day at the Red Cross that the local
Red Cross at Cumbe rland was well
supplied with funds and other neces-
sities to take care of any who might
suffer from the flood. 1t was ex-
planned that funds had been left over
from the previous flood.