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The Midland Journal
Rising Sun, Cecil County, Maryland
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A severe electrical storm on Tuesday afternoon and evening broke a prolonged heat wave in the local area, bringing high winds, hail, heavy rain, and cooler temperatures. Damage included downed trees, broken wires, washed-out crop fields, flattened wheat, flooded streams, and destruction of a new dam and road at the Boy Scout Camp on Octoraro Creek northwest of town.
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The heat wave of the latter part of last week and fore part of this, when the mercury climbed up in the tube as high as 94 degrees, was effectually broken on Tuesday evening by one of the heaviest storms of the season.
Monday evening's gust was of short duration, and did not seem to cool the atmosphere to any great extent, but Tuesday's storm was a prolonged one, and brought a big drop in the temperature. It broke over this section between two and three o'clock in the afternoon with violent electrical discharges, high wind, hail and heavy downpour of rain.
The high wind did considerable damage about town by blowing down several trees, tearing off branches and causing breaks in telephone and electric wires.
After partially clearing in the late afternoon, the storm broke again in the evening with renewed fury and heavy rainfall, continuing until late at night.
Much damage is reported in this locality by our farmers through badly washed corn fields, while fields of growing wheat were flattened to the ground, as though a roller had passed over them.
The heavy rain made torrents of every stream. The Octoraro creek went on a rampage, sweeping out the fine, newly-constructed dam of the Boy Scout Camp, at Horseshoe Farm, northwest of town, and tearing up the roadway along the creek, leading to the Camp. This road was being graded and graveled and put in first class shape, and is a sorry sight now.
The dam was some distance up the creek from the old paper mill dam that was swept out last year. Work on the new structure had just been completed, the dam backing up the waters of the Octoraro for more than a mile, the beautiful lake formed being one of the Camp's most attractive features, providing splendid boating, etc. Its loss to the Camp is a serious one, financially and otherwise.
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Town Near Octoraro Creek
Event Date
Tuesday Afternoon And Evening
Outcome
downed trees, broken telephone and electric wires, washed-out corn fields, flattened wheat fields, destruction of boy scout camp dam and roadway at horseshoe farm, flooding of streams including octoraro creek; no human casualties mentioned.
Event Details
A heavy electrical storm with violent discharges, high wind, hail, and prolonged heavy rain broke over the area between 2-3 PM Tuesday, following a minor gust Monday evening. It resumed in the evening, causing widespread damage to town infrastructure, agriculture, and the new dam on Octoraro Creek that formed a lake for the Boy Scout Camp.