Evening star., 1945-09-19
Floods Cause
Minor Damage
Rivers Continue Rise
As Clearing Skies End
z Days Of Roin, Wind

Clearing skies and rising tempera-
lures were forecast today for WASH
ington and vicinity after two days
Of rain and winds which interrupted
power and telephone service in sew
eral sections, threatened to disrupt
travel of some highways and caused
minor damage throughout Maryland
and Virginia.
The Potomac River was up to the
7-foot tide level this morning at
the Wisconsin avenue weather gauge,
and is expected to rise another foot
by tomorrow, foot above flood level
No particular damage" Is ex-
pected here, however, according to
Weather Bureau officials, who pre-
dicted the river would recede slowly
after tomorrows crest.
Flood Gates Opened.
Meanwhile, water front residents
in Maryland anxiously watched
rising river levels. The Potomac
was expected to rise to % feet to-
day at Brunswick, according to the
Associated Press. The Monocacy
River at Frederick rose to IT feet
last night as a result of a 3.37-inch
rain in So hours.
At Cumberland, Potomac flood
gates were opened after the stream
rose to 1922 feet and city officials
expected it to attain food stage OF
II feet.
Numerous instances of road food
ing, felled trees, broken power lines
and other storm damage occurred
throughout the State yesterday.
Route Is between Frederick and
Gettysburg, Pa, was flooded at sew
eral points.
! Broomes Island in Southern
Maryland was under II inches oil
water yesterday and low-lying por-
tions of nearby Solomons Island
were covered. Fishing piers at Gov.
ernor Run and Kenwood Beach
Calvert County, were washed away
800 Families Marooned.
Near Baltimore, Back River waters
covered the causeway leading to
Miller Island, marooning approx
mately 300 families overnight.
At Harpers Ferry, w. Va, con-
fluence of the Potomac and Shen-
andoah Rivers, schools were closed
yesterday because buses could not
get through. Slightly more than 8
! inches of rain for the month were
recorded yesterday at Martinsburg
highest monthly total for the last
35 years.
In Virginia, Waynesboro suffered
damage from the flooding of the
South River, which yesterday surgeo
over its banks to flood the mair
business section of the town ano
ran some residents out of the low.
land sections.
Weather stations in Lynchburf
and Richmond predicted the Jane,
River would be above the food stage
by tonight or tomorrow morning.
Corn Crop Hit.
Corn seemed to be the worst cror
casualty. High winds and peltine
rains, especially severe in Princess
Anne and other Tidewater counties
battered corn crops to the ground
Assistant Director H. w. Parker oil
the Virginia Truck Experiment Sta.
ton warned that corn blown to the
ground should be removed immedi.
ately or 1t will rot.
A heavy loss is anticipated in the
June turkey crop. Poultrymen in
the State estimated that between
rs and 40 per cent of the young
turkeys died as result of the cold
and dampness and that the loss
would run into thousands of dol.
lars.
Two hydroelectric plants on tht
Shenandoah River, one owned BY
Harrisonburg and the other op-
Grated by the Virginia Electric
8S Power Co. at Grottoes, were
forced to close yesterday when the
river rose Is feet. Electric service
was not interrupted, however.