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SNOWS AND COLD
GRIP CD AND
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30-Inch White Blanket Is
Left on Hills—River
Rises 10 Feet.
•7 the Axocleted Press.
CUMBERLAND, Md., March 31.—
Bnow, rain and cold threatened this
flood-battered Second City of Mary
land with new suffering and misery
today, but relief forces apparently had
the situation well in hand.
"I am confident we are meeting
the emergency,” Miss Margaret Lewis,
Red Cross field representative in
charge of relief in the city of 40,000,
said late in the day.
“It is snowing here and above here
In the county, but unless It continues
X don't think it will affect us particu
larly and I see no cause for alarm.”
The entire city was cheered by the
news President Roosevelt had allotted
$43,000,000 for flood relief, with
. this State sharing. No action had
been taken on flood-relief measures in
the State Legislature.
Potomac Up 10 Feet.
Some alarm had been felt here be
cause heavy rains and 30 inches of
enow in the mountains above here
had made the Potomac River rise 10
feet.
Miss Lewis said, however, the home
less—1,700 families in the city and
county—were being cared for and that
none were being permitted to enter
their damp homes.
Earlier in the day she had dis
closed that doctors and nurses had
been rushed into the West Virginia
towns of Green Spring and Paw Paw
to prevent any outbreak of disease
as a result of flooded water systems.
Gov. Harry W. Nice, swinging down
from here to Hancock and Williams
port on his personal survey of Mary
land's flood zone, expressed alarm at
the suddenly developed cold weather.
“The Increasing cold In Western
Maryland makes even more urgent the
need for relief funds,” he said. This
was before announcement of the Pres
ident’s allocation of funds to the
W. P. A.
Muck and Debris Left
The snowfall last night came within
C miles of this stricken city, which
had been directing all its energies
toward cleaning up the muck and
debris the Potomac left after its $3,
* COO ,000 assault on the city.
The Western Maryland Railroad re
ported 30 inches of snow fell after
heavy rains high in the mountains to
the west of here.
In Garrett County, Oakland and
Grantsville had 16 inches, with the
fall continuing today. Telegraph serv
ice to Oakland was impaired.
Much of the fury of the snowstorm
Was dissipated as it approached Cum
berland and Prostburg and Lonacon
lng, 9 miles west of here, had only 3
to S Inches.
Although some snow fell here, the
BOO W. P. A., C. C. C., city and State
employes at work on the littered streets
were spared the added task of shovel
ing snow.
The flakes fell on bedding that had
been set out to dry. About 100 persons
who were forced from their homes Dy
the flood waters set out their soaked
bedding, aired their dampened homes
and scraped off mud from floors and
Walls.
rtna Vinnrlmrl _I__
remained on duty to prevent looting
and shivered at their posts in front of
damaged stores and banks.
Emergency Declared.
The City Council declared a state
of emergency and ordered all liquor
atores to close at 9 p.m. tonight and
every night until the ban is lifted.
The police were directed to enforce
the order strictly.
All down the ravaged Upper Valley
of the Potomac the work of rehabili
, tation and relief progressed.
At least 8,000 were believed homeless
from Cumberland to Point of Rocks
and total damage was estimated at
at least $5,000,000—the sum the Mary
land delegation in Congress had been
seeking.
Seven towns, the principal ones
along the river’s banks, were inun
dated by the Potomac’s wild sweep to
the sea. Only two bridges were left
Intact from Cumberland to Point of
Rocks.
Flood
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electricity had been gone for hours.
Only two families still retained some
old-fashioned kerosene lamps. They
didn’t have much kerosene.
A party of five was recruited. They
were, besides Bowman, Richard, Rus
sell and Walter Turner and William
■Jacobs. They went from door to door
rousing the people—but none of them
were actually asleep except the chil
dren. By that time the water was
washing the street and advancing
•teadlly up the hill. Altogether they
carried 11 women and 23 children on
their shoulders up the hill to the tan
nery. Long before they could finish
the job the water was up to their
hips. Then they went back to get
what blankets and pillows they could
to make beds on the tannery floor.
That is the way the Potomac flood
came to Fin ton avenue—so solemnly
that It was mistaken for doomsday.
Friday morning the street of poor
homes was a scene of the utmost deso
lation. Mc»t of the houses were still
standing, but the heavier furniture
which the owners and their volunteer
helpers had been unable to move the
day before was ruined, the floors were
ankle deep In mud, some of the build
ings were turned about on their
foundations. It probably will be Im
possible to move back into them for a
month or so. The families are living
•t the tannery.
Community Short of Food.
The morning after the flood found
the community across the creek short
of food. It has only one grocery store
and the flood had reached as high as
Its door. Bowman and the others
rowed across to Williamsport for food.
They had to row carefully so their
boat would not get tangled up in the
telephone wires. Hie water was level
With them. From, the low fanning
1 country below Wiiliamsport, where
Conococheague Creek empties Into the
Potomac, came stories today of thrill
ing escapes after farm families had
lingered the last moment to save their
farm animals and their household
goods. Strewn over the mud-covered
fields of the bottom lands were the
bodies of drowned cows and horses,
with burial parties working knee-deep
In mud to get the bodies under the
•oil before they began to contaminate
the atmosphere.
One man alone lost 13 cattle, practi
cally all he had in the world. Once
' the waters began tb rise there was
nothing to do except turn the animals
loose, in the hope that they would
> i
Williamsport Counts Big Flood Cost
Walter M. Bowman (li rescued 30 people at Williamsport, Md., carrying many on his back
to safety. Amos Barnzhoff of Williamsport (2) was taken for a strange boat ride by the flood.
He had tied the boat to his house while he sought to anchor the house to a tree. The current
tore the house from its foundations and took Barnzhoff 2 miles down his field before the house
lodged against a tree. Luther H. Miskel (3) was one of two sons who. with their father, spent
a night of terror clinging to their barn on Heater’s Island in the middle of the Potomac while
the flood raged about them. Guy Hoffman (4) is shown cleaning the mud from his home at
Williamsport. —Star Staff Photos.
escape to higher ground by swimming.
Some may have succeeded and are
roaming about in the hills.
Typical is the story of Guy Hoff
man as he labored hopelessly today—
just to be doing something—to clean
up his desolate little home where the
slimy mud still is a foot thick on the
floors and all the furniture and cloth
ing are ruined. Hoffman lives close
to the Hagerstown water works. He
had been warned the river was rising,
but didn’t pay much attention to it.
He remembered some big floods there
when he was a boy and none of them
had quite reached the front doorstep.
Warned of Rising River.
At midnight the watchman at the
reservoir rapped on his door.
"The river's coming up fast, Guy,”
he said. “Maybe you’d better keep
an eye on your cattle.’’
He could see the water was rising
faster than he ever had seen it rise
before. He and his son dressed hur
riedly and ran to the barn. They
began leading their cows to the high
w’all of the reservoir. They saved all
of them, but they were shoulder deep
in water as they led the last animals
to safety
Meanwhile Mrs. HofTman had fled
through the back door to the power
house at the reservoir, not a moment
too soon. The raging river lifted the
house from its foundations and sat
it around exactly at right angles. A
building engineer could hardly have
done a neater job with block and
tackle.
Hoffman will sell out and leave this
part of the country, he said. It’s no
use at his age to try to start farming
anew’. Those mud-nlastered field*
look hopeless.
A strange adventure was that of
John Barnzhoff, a young farmer who
lives about half a mile above Hoff
man. He and his brother had moved
most of the furniture out of their
house and had got their cattle to
safety. .All night they stayed in the
house, with the water raging below
them. They didn’t intend to aban
don the building to be salvaged by
wrecking crews farther down the
creek. Branzhoff provided himself
with a heavy cable. They were driven
to the roof. Then the foundations
gave way .and the building started
down the creek Branzhoff, riding
the roof, tried desperately to throw
the rope around a tree and make it
fast. The current was too swift. His
brother accompanied him in a boat.
Once the boat had a narrow escape
from being crushed between the house
and a tree.
House Tips Over.
They didn’t succeed in making the
house fast to a tree until they had
floated about 2 miles. And when they
got it anchored it proceeded to tin
over.
Bowman and his companions res
cued some of the farm families in
boats and brought them into Williams
port. One of the rescued was an old
gentleman named Knodle, who lived
alone in a houseboat on the canal
His situation was particularly desper
ate. Once before he had been brought
out and had gone back.
The rescuers had to row the boat
through a stiff current to get to him
They found him with his live cats
gathered in his arms, confidently
awaiting their coming. The animals
are his only companions. He had gone
back rather than abandon them.
All up the Potomac Valley from
Hagerstown to Hancock the low-lying
towns are deserted and desolate. No
body knows, as yet, what happened to
some of the people in the little
villages beside the B. & O. Railroad
on the West Virginia side of the river.
At Milestone. Md„ J. P. Weller told
today of standing on the roof of his
home and seeing 18 houses, one after
another, swept into the river from
the little cannery village of Sleepy
Creek. Presumably the inhabitants
escaped to the hills. There is no com
munication across the river. At least
one farm family is reputed to be lost.
Lose All Furniture.
At Milestone, between Hagerstown
and Hancock, four or five families lost
all their furniture. Those who had
boats were able to rescue some of
it from the second-story windows.
Jacob Pink did not have a boat: he
improvised one from a hog-scalding
trough, but it tipped over. With his
little daughter Eleanor in his arms
he got out of his house at 2 a.m.
The flood played some funny stunts
at Milestone. For example, it took
the hog pen of Robert Shikes and. an
hour later, deposited the hog pen of
his brother-in-law, Mr. Weller, who
lives a mile upstream, on exactly the
same spot. So Mr. Shikes has a hog
pen and Mr. Weller hasn’t.
The flood-ravaged town of Han
cock, with a company of C. C. C.
workers on the job, was beginning to
take stock of its losses today, but
from outlying communities came
stories of farm families entirely cleaned
out. The five houses of the little
village of Cohill Station are some
where down the river, with all the
furniture of their owners. They are
being cared for at Hancock. Among
those left homeless are Mr. and Mrs.
John Childers and their eight chil
dren, the youngest a baby of 11
months.
Down at Pont of Rocks with 200
of its 400 people temporarily homeless
and its streets covered with bean-soup
mud halfway to one’s knees, the little
railroad village is trying to rehabili
tate itself.
Some are wandering about in a daze.
They have lost everything. Others,
with brooms and hoes in their hands,
are trying to clean the mud oil the
pavements, but it flows back about as
soon as it is swept away.
In spite of timely warning Point
of Rocks did not take the danger seri
ously until early Thursday evening,
when the waters already were wash
ing over their doorsteps. There never
could be another inundation like that
which came with the Johnstown flood,
the old-timers said, and pointed to the
high-water marks on buildings which
had been made at the time.
Then the river began rising, 2 feet
an hour. Too late to save much of
their property, the residents began
carrying their furniture and utensils
to the second floors of the low houses
of the town’s three or four streets.
Before most of them could finish the
task the women and children had to
seek safety in the village school house,
the Lutheran Church or the few
homes on higher ground.
Meanwhile a dramatic scene was
enacted out on 500-acre Heater's
Island in the middle of the Potomac.
There Fairfax Miskel with his family
of 10 and their hired man, James
Lorry, till one of the largest farms in
Frederick County. Early Wednesday
afternoon Mr. Miskel realised that the
rising ri"er might inundate the island
before morning and brought Mrs.
Miskel and the younger children to
Point of Rocks by boat. He and the
two older boys, Luther and Jesse, re
turned to care for the stock. They ex
pected to remain on the island all
night.
Late In the afternoon the water was
sweeping through the barn. They
freed the cattle and horses to let them
shift for themselves. Then they re
tired te the second floor of the house,
moving up as much of their furniture
as possible. The yellow water contin
ued to rise, with a 40-mile current
sweeping down the river and plunging
timbers, fragments of bridges and all
sorts of debris against the house.
Barn Floats Away.
Miskel, Lorry and the two Miskel
boys heard the timbers of the house
groaning beneath them. It seemed at
any moment the building would be
swept away into the river. They saw
the barn go down into the current.
Then all four crept out the second
story windows into the flat-bottomed
boat they had kept ready for emer
gencies. Already it was pitch dark.
Rain was falling in sheets. They
dared not trust themselves to the
current. So all night long, until sun
rise Friday, they waited in terror,
clutching desperately to the second
floor window casing to prevent the
boat from being swept into the cur
rent. All night they called for help,
but their cries could not be heard
above the roar of the river.
With daylight their plight was seen
from the shore and boats went out
to rescue them. They were brought to
Point of Rocks safely, but all of the
cattle and horses were drowned and
much of their farming equipment
swept away.
There were pathetic scenes about
the little brick school house, Just above
the high water mark reached by the
flood, aa the Red Cross, the Salva
tion Army, the American Legion and
the Maryland State police strove to
bring comfort to the people. Many
had lost practically all their clothing.
Food was running low when a supply
was rushed In by trucks from Fred
erick. A temporary kitchen was set
up for the 300 homeless. The nearby
Lutheran Church was turned Into a
dormitory.
Pathetic figure was 8. W. Loy, for
merly a Washington building inspec
tor, who came to Point of Rocks eight
years ago and was the owner of
the town’s largest store.
“I’m cleaned out and I don’t know
how I’m ever going to start again. I
had read about the danger of a
flood, but I didn’t take it seriously.
I had seen floods before and I just
moved a little of my stock up on
the second floor, but I didn’t have
time to move any of the furniture in
my house.
Cash Was Stolen.
“The flood didn’t exactly come sud
denly, so as to take anybody by
surprise, but when the river started
rising It came up too quick for any
thing to be done.
“I was moving some of my stock
when I looked out of the window and
saw that I could not even get next
door to my Mouse. I Mad to leave
right then and I coudn’t even carry
the cash I had on hand—two cigar
boxes full. This morning somebody
stole it,” Loy said.
The school house Is a scene of con
fusion. The relief work Is being
directed by C. L. Belentlinger, the
school principal, aided by Salvation
Army and Red Cross workers. One
corner of the room is given over
to the typhoid inoculations. Tables
are piled high with all sorts of
clothing for the homeless people.
It will be at least a week before
Point-of-Rocks is able to sweep itself
entirely out of the mud—about the
ooziest, slipperiest mud one ever 1s
likely to encounter. The men were
hard at work yesterday sweeping out
the first-floor rooms and moving fur
niture from the second-story windows
to higher ground. Women labored
with brooms in hip boots—the mud
up to their knees—to restore some
semblance of order in their wrecked
homes. A fire engine from Frederick
has been hosing out some of the
houses.
Knoxville Hard Hit.
Between Point-of-Rocks and Har
pers Ferry, the hardest-hit village, so
far as personal losses were concerned,
was Knoxville, about 12 miles from
Frederick. The six small dwelling
houses on the river front were swept
down the current. The residents had
plenty of warning, but except in one
case had moved none of their furni
ture. It is in Chesapeake Bay by this
time.
The important railroad center of
Brunswick escaped without damage so
far as its dwelling houses and business
center were concerned. But the big
car shops and yards are completely
InnnHatftH Praioht rare era moccaH
for a mile. About 20 cottages on the
river front have been washed down
the rvier, Police Chief Joseph Chew
says.
Scenes at Harper’s Ferry are al
most a duplicate of those at Point
of-Roeks, but on a larger scale and
without so mueh personal suffering.
The streets in the lower part of the
town are knee deep in mud and for
the present it seems futile to sweep
it away. It is like trying to sweep
back the sea.
The town is cut off except on the
West Virginia side. Only the rail
road connects it with Maryland, the
highway bridge being broken off sharp
about the center, while the bridge over
the Shenandoah was swept away.
Houses and stores on the lower streets
are deserted, the Moncacy River rose
from the back push of the Potomac.
Many Summer cottages were smashed
and went down the river in debris, and
farmers living near the junction of
the two rivers were obliged to aban
don their homes and stock.
It is estimated that at least 50 head
of cattle between Harpers Ferry and
Big Seneca Creek were drowned in
the flood. The animals, let loose from
their stables, were unable to swim to
shore against the swift current.
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HARRISBURG, Pa., March 31.—
Angry nature, her smashing flood wa
ters partially withdrawn, sent atoms
and cold over eastern Central Penn
sylvania tonight, adding new misery
to the death and damage wrought by
surging rivers.
All-day rains and lowering tem
peratures In most of the stricken zones,
where at least 32 are dead, Were fol
lowed by a threat of snow and sleet
over the week end, halting any hopes
of reconstruction and hampering ac
tivities for the relief of the widespread
suffering.
In communities patrolled by the
military to guard against looting or
activities which may result in spread
of disease, refugees returned to take
stock of the ravages left by the ram
pant Susquehanna and Juniata Rivers
through the heart of the Keystone
State.
Food and water shortage threatened
on all sides; gas, electric light and
power facilities were either shut down
completely or badly crippled; medical
men labored against the danger ot
contagion; mud, slime and debris were
everywhere.
50,000 Are Homeless.
Well over 50,000 persons were home
less, and damage and 106s could not
be estimated In other terms than
“many millions.’’
A plea from Democratic Gov.
George H. Earle and Republican State
Chairman M. Harvey Taylor went to
Washington for $10,000,000 of Fed
eral funds to aid in fighting back to
normalcy.
At the same time W. P. A. Admin
loiiinwi iMii; u. ooouicu ure
Governor the “full resources of W. P.
A. will be placed behind the program
of rehabilitation" and that bis vast
organization would “work on private
property where health is endangered
of there is a hazard to life."
Quarantine-closed Sunbury on the
Susquehanna presented a pathetic pic
ture. Six were dead. Among them
was a 5-week-old infant, accidentally
smothered as hundreds of refugees
huddled in the shelter of a school
house. National Guardsmen and po
lice patrolled everywhere as 90 cases
of contagious disease were segregated
and efforts were redoubled to prevent
any more. Two thousand persons were
taken to other cities and hundreds of
other refugees massed in the small
“hill” section, the only spot in the
city not struck by the devastating
water.
$3,000,000 Loss at Williamsport.
Williamsport, once again in con
tact with the outside world after two
days of complete isolation, surveyed
the wreckage and estimated $3,000,000
loss. Paradoxically fortunate was the
Central Pennsylvania industrial com
munity in that it had prepared for a
flood only a week ago, when the Sus
quehanna's ice broke up, so that food,
water and medical supplies were ade
quate in the present emergency. Pour
thousand were homeless.
Wilkes-Barre and the Northeastern
Pennsylvania Wyoming Valley anthra
cite area, however, gave little thought
to rehabilitation yet, as it continued
its relief and rescue work in streets
stiU flood-covered. Two more deaths
were reported there today—a man
from exposure and a woman from a
heart attack—bringing the region’s fa
talities to five. Gas was completely
shut off; electric and power was badly
stalled and every relief agency threw
itself Into caring for 14,000 made
homeless by the Susquehanna In the
15-mUe-long region.
Gas Plant Flooded.
Over In the Valley of Juniata, In
West Central Pennsylvania, homeless
came back to Lewlstown, still under
military rule, and found $4,000,000
loss, some of it to the big Viscose Co.
plant. Electric power was restored,
but the city gas plant was still com
pletely flooded.
From Isolated Renovo, west of Wil
liamsport, came the first definite word
since the Susquehanna flood struck—
the situation Is under control, said
the message, but the town was hard
hit, with virtually every home Inun
dated and one entire street completely
submerged. One house, a shattered
wreck, was dropped by the water In
the center of a bridge.
Sleinsgrove, near Sunbury, was still
without water from a flooded pumping
station. Workers labored to construct
an emergency line to the State epilep
tic colony. At Lewisburg, not far
away, a cavalry troop was remobllized
after reports of looting. In the same
sector, water was restored to the 2,200
patients at the Danville State Hos
pital.
Water Shortage at Harrisburg.
The State capital city of Harrisburg
also was confronted with a threat of
water shortage, and the Health De
partment recommended rationing its
available supply. Militiamen guarded
the streets there, too.
The "urgent need” of flood victims
for cash contributions from the Red
Cross rather than food and clothing
was voiced tonight by Gov. Earle. In
a State-wide appeal he urged an “im
mediate plea by press, radio and all
other means for cash contributions.”
From Washington came word that
the United States Public Health Serv
ice bad dispatched to Harrisburg by
plane enough typhoid vaccine for
5,000 persons. The State Health De
partment had requested the vaccine '
to aid In the fight against disease.
State W. P. A. headquarters report
ed meantime that 100,000 project
workers have been detailed to flood
areas to clean up debris and partici
pate In other rehabilitation activities.
Insurance Commissioner Owen B.
Hunt reported to the Governor’s office
that Jersey Shore needs chlorine to
treat polluted water.
Scranton sent another military de
tachment to Wilkes-Barre—a medical
unit of the 109th Infantry, which will
pay special attention to sanitation In
the stricken districts. Late today a
call for 250 additional troops for
Wilkes-Barre was received by Scranton}
and officers Immediately began a;
round-up of soldiers still there.
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W. & J. Sloane Render
Especially Well
Custom-made Slip Covers
You don’t just want something that covers up
the furniture. Rather make it decorative, and keep
your rooms attractively furnished, at the same time
you are protecting the delicate upholstery.
Much depends upon howr Slip Covers are made,
in addition to, of what they are made. Sloane
Slip Covers are custom made, that is, measured and
made expressly for your furniture. They will
fit perfectly—so perfectly that as they are cleaned
from time to time they will still fit perfectly. And
you have the choice of a very wide variety of sun
fast fabrics. The pieces will be finished w’ith
box pleated skirts, French seams and talon fasten
ers. The price for the labor on a 3
piece suite of usual size—sofa, easy ^ ^
chair and wing chair—is only
Here is an unusual assortment of novelty
weaves, crashes, etc., in new designs and colors
from which to select—and may we suggest:
Colorful chintz _60c yd.
50-in. Part linen_75c yd.
Genuine Irish printed linen_$1.15 yd.
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Custom-made Venetian Blinds 1
Venetian Blinds have become very popular as
window furnishings for all seasons. But they
are especially desirable for the “open season.” We
will take measurements and make Venetian Blinds
in the residential size slat. A wide selection of
stock colors and a variety of tape combinations.
The blinds are equipped with automatic stopping
device and easy-running worm-tilting
mechanism. Price installed complete_
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Expert Rug and Carpet Cleaning
It will soon be time to take up the rugs and the
carpets, and the cleaning should be done expertly.
Our operators are trained in this work, under
standing rug and carpet textures and knowing ex
actly what special treatment each type requires.
After cleaning let us store them in our fireproof
rooms where they will be safe.
Nominal Charges
Charge Accounts Courtesy Parking
Gladly opened, with settlements While shopping here, park in the
arranged lor your convenience. Capital Oarage at our expense.
W. &J. Sloane
711 Twelfth Street District 7262
The House With the Green Shutters
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