Smyrna times., 1927-02-23
WOODLAND BEACH AND OTHER
BAY RESORTS HIT BY STORM
TIDES DRIVEN BY HIGH WIND
COVER ROAD AND FILL RESORT
Some of the Cottages Were Flooded
to the Second StOry-No Material
Damage Done to the Properties

The severe storm of high wind, rain
snow and sleet struck Woodland
Beach and other bayside resorts in all
its fury Saturday night and Sunday.
The Woodland Beach marsh road was
covered with several feet of water
but it withstood the gale without
much damage. The hotel and amuse-
ment places escaped; while damaged
some they were left entact and not
swept away. The wind drove the high
tides up on the beach until consider
able portion was covered by water.
Some of the cottages were flooded
with water to the second floor. Re-
ports of similar conditions are report
ed from Kits Hammock, Bowers,
Slaughters and other bayside resorts.
Telephone communications in a num-
Der of instances were cut off and no
adequate reports could be obtained as
to the damage done. At Leipsic the
tide covered the causeway and draw
bridge, as well as the wind tearing
the boats away. Water rose several
feet flooding many of the back yards
of the residences bordering close to
the Leipsic river. Parties interested
in the muskrat trade state that the
business has possibly been ruined for
the season as it is believed thousands
of the rats have been drowned by the
high tides. Rehoboth and Lewes es-
capped the brunt of the storm because
of the direction in which the gale
II Dol, ,@lA I
consisted of the washing away of sew
eral piles in the fishing pier, part of
the railing on the bulkhead, damage
to part of the schoolhouse roof, shat
tering of window panes and damage
to several foundation piers of the new
Henlopen Hotel. The waters of the
bay were of such great height that
they surged over the bulkheads and
hurled spray a great distance over the
boardwalk. At Lewes the electric
light service was put out of commits
sion by the storm which blew down
a number of the poles upon which
the wires We're strung. The cause
way leading from the town to the
town to the beach was flooded under
three feet of water. The Wescoat
garage about a mile and half from
Lewes was damaged A forty-foot
sign of the Del-Mar-Va Association
at the intersection of the Lewes and
Rehoboth roads was blown down. At
lantic City and Jersey resorts report
varying stories of the damage of the
storm. In fact the whole Atlantic
Seaboard was more or less effected.
The snow and hail covered the ground
in this vicinity to depth of A or 5
inches. Traffic was seriously imped-
ed. Many three limbs were blown
down. The section about Delaware
City suffered the most damage. About
400 feet Of the new road from Della
ware City to Port Penn, which was
completed last year, was washed out
and it will cost several thousand dol
lars to make repairs. The road from
st. Georges to Delaware City was
also so badly washed out that it was
closed Monday by the county until re-
pairs canb made. It was along this
road that the carp farm of William
P. Mcconnell was located and the
banks were broken and the supply of
carp got into the river and disappear
ed causing heavy loss. The bank at
this farm was being repaired when
the storm broke