Westernport & other Allegany towns

Lonaconing Clean-up Halted by WPA Strike

Demand Town Rate of 40 cents an hour instead of WPA Rate of Pay.

Lonaconing March 23. Clearing up flood debris and repair work was practically at a standstill today following the strike of Works Progress Administration laborers. They are paid 23 1/3 cents an hour, under the WPA security wage ruling, but demand 40 cents the same as paid a few laborers by the Mayor and City Council of Lonaconing.

SPANS SWEPT AWAY BY SURGING WATER; SECTIONS HARD HIT

Hancock and Shepherdstown Bridges Are Wrecked— Williamsport Section Suffers Heavy Damage in Record Flood

WILLIAMSPORT—The Potomac river was believed to have reached its peak at midnight after rising to a new high of 49.6 feet above normal or four feet above the Johnstown flood stage in 1889. Town in darkness. Scores of families were homeless and the Red Cross and Salvation Army set up temporary rehabilitation headquarters. Hagerstown pumping station above Williamsport believed flooded.

GOV. NICE VIEWS CITY'S WRECKAGE

State's Chief Executive Confers With City And County Authorities On Needs Of Relief From Devastating Floods

WILL INSPECT CREEK AREA TO WESTERNPORT

Cumberland Getting Rid Of Thousands Of Tons Of Mud In Central Part Of Town

STREETS MAY BE CLEAR TOMORROW

Semi-Military Control To Continue Another Day. And People Asked To Co-Operate

CCC Enrolled Here Help

Twenty men of the 1320th Company, CCC left Bond Camp, Westernport, Tuesday at 10:00 a. m., for Memorial Hospital, Cumberland, for the purpose of blood transfusions for James Cunningham, a member of the 2366th Company, CCC, Westernport, who was suffering from blood poisoning.

After forcing through slides along the nine mile trail from the camp to Westernport, the men arrived in Cumberland just a few minutes before the city was isolated by flood waters, only to find that Cunningham had died at noon.

NO PHONE SERVICE TO UP-CREEK TOWNS

Over 100 Families Forced To Leave Their Homes
Roads Being Opened

Telephone service with Frostburg, Lonaconing, Westernport and other George's creek towns is out and a definite account of the flood damage in that section was not available. However, it was reported the highways were open. The damage in most of the towns was reported to be great with the Cumberland and Pennsylvania Railroad tracks washed out in several spots.

HIGH WATER BLOCKS SICK CCC WORKER ON WAY TO HOSPITAL HERE

Pneumonia Patient Carried From Ambulance, Which Became Marooned On Cumberland Street, To Hospital On Improvised Stretcher; Man Falls Into Water; Woman Breaks Leg

Flood waters blocked an ambulance bringing Lawrence Collier, a member of the Sang Run CCC Camp in Garrett County, to Memorial Hospital late yesterday afternoon.

Collier, suffering from pneumonia, was in a critical condition at camp and was ordered to the hospital here.

City Buried Under Tons of Mud and Debris, Damage and Losses May Total $3,000,000

Damage to city alone believed to be million

Flood Crest Surges Out of Cumberland Leaving Wreckage and Destruction In Wake

LOCUST GROVE IS A TOTAL WRECK

At Least Four Families Left Homeless When Houses Are Washed Away

Destruction wrecked by flood in the last 24 hours in Cumberland and immediate vicinity will reach $3,000,000, according to conservative estimates this afternoon.