Evening star., 1924-04-01
BILLIARDS. FURY
ADDS TO SUFFERING
OF FLOOD VICTIMS
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is going to pipe water to Ridgely
until other means of supply can be
provided Few families in Ridgely
escaped loss. The town is in dark
ness, and has a volunteer armed
The big Footer dye works resumed
today, although it is a heavy suf-
ferer.
Heavy Freight Loss.
Forty carloads of freight at the
Western Maryland railway station
was ruined by the flood and thou
sands of dollars worth of express and
freight shipments stored in the
freight station and in the America n
/. Railway Express office in the base
ment of the Western Mary land pas
senger station were destroyed.
The city post office started regular
mail delivery today. 4 force of sixty
one men. many working twenty-four
hours without halt have cleared the
mud and debris from the basement of
the main building and the parcel post
throwing twenty three-inch streams
the water has been reduced from the
basement of the Fort Cumberland
Hotel at the rate of a foot an hour.
1t is as a great reservoir
The situation at kitzmiller, Garrett
county. where fifteen houses were
swept away entirely and scores bad
~ damaged, rs serious, and an effort
of provisions over the almost impass-
able county road from Oakland.
Family Saved.
The family of j. Divelbliss, at Nc
Coole, consisting of the parents and
two children, reported drowned was
rescued By boatmen. Divelbliss at
| tracted attention from his marooned
home by firing shots from an up
stairs window. Boats were then pro-
cured.
J. c. NicoIson. Washington. presi-
dent of Canal Towage Company,
which operates the Chesapeake and
! Ohio canal, is here surveying dam
age and looking to starting repairs.
| The waterway suffered heavily.
Added to the complication is the
low gas pressure here due largely 10 the
new snowfall. Many nearby places
are without natural gas entirely, tn =
mains having been washed out and
those who depended upon it entirely
| for fuel and light are great sufferers
The police department has issued
an order permitting no lettering on
the streets after 1890 pm, and move
ments of people in their own build
ing will be under surveillance. This
follows a suspected incendiary at
tempt in the business quarters last
night.
Years to Repair Damage.
Prominent residents of the Tri-
Towns'-Piedmont, w. Va, and West
ernport and Luke, Md.-say it will
take years for the places to recover
from the Hood, SO hard were they hit
Piedmont fiat was under eight feet
of water all day, filling every house
and running every store. The Luke
fiat was all flooded, and this struck
the great plant Of the West Virginia
Pulp and Paper Company. which has
suffered half a million dollars dam
age. Poth the county and the rail-
road bridges over the Potomac are
gone, and these represent a cost of
! 1925 900. Georges creek was diverted
down it's old bel in front of st
| Peters Catholic Church. and there
were four feet of water in the ps,ro-
| chiaI school.
! The shutting off of power has seriously
| affected conditions in the Georges Creek
region, which depends upon the Edison
! plant in Cumberland. which was deuged
; by the flood Mines have been obliged
! to suspend, and the towns have been In
darkness. The Utility glass works at
! Homecoming was forced to shut down
when the gas service was shut off OW-
| ing to the fact that the pots in which
! the glass is melted must be kept con-
stantly heated, coal and oil were used
! in the emergency.
| The Baltimore and Ohio railroad re-
ports that it's damage will not be heavy
1 It's worst trouble was from inundated