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the trees and sidewalks carried north; house frame exploded on east side; 

 a small plank penetrated a heavy brick wall in second story of 20^, D. 2. 

 21. A one-story frame with the east wall pulled off some 18 inches, some 

 glass bursted outwards, and no other injury involved; chimneys secure. 



First Collateral Line, already described. 



Second Collateral Line, the same. 



Third Collateral Line, after passing school building, passed lower ; it 

 probably produced that dextrous little effect at 19. At 26, utterly crushed 

 and scattered a small building, near this point closing in to the principal 

 line, at which point there was an unusual change given to the course of 

 trees and debris generally. 



Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Collateral Lines, previously described. 



We have only enumerated peculiar phases or conditions, and made no 

 attempt to describe the damage inflicted. A general idea can be had by 

 reference to the Diagram of CoHinsville, No. 2. Among the many singu- 

 lar incidents we select a few only. 



At Mr. Cox's, just west of town, after tearing away part of his barn and 

 some 15 trees, it raised the roof of his dwelling (i4-story) at the eaves, and 

 snatched apair of pants, a shaving and a soap box, and deposited them on 

 the hood of an awning that projected over his front door, the roof settling 

 back nearly to its place again. 



We have a piece of cornstalk, 3 inches long by | inch wide, that had 

 been driven through the hard, painted surface of an old door | of an inch. 



At a blacksmith shop, north side of Main street, lay the bed of a light 

 wagon, the running gears being in the second story of a wagon shop, on 

 the south side of street, that was utterly crushed and scattered (some 300 

 feet distant), and where they were being painted. After the storm they 

 were found to the east, side by side, and uninjured. 



A horse and buggy, standing in front of a church in which a funeral 

 was being conducted, was taken up into the air and whirled 260 feet dis- 

 tant, and dashed to the ground, killing the horse and but slightly injuring 

 the buggy. Some by-standers claimed that this horse and buggy were 

 carried fifty feet high. 



In block 13 and 14 there was a two-story brick business block, covered 

 with a tin roof, the rafters and sheeting of which were carried across the 

 street, while the tin was found spread out upon the upper joists, a few 

 inches lower than its usual position. The explanation probably is that a 

 first gust of wind tore the tin loose and tumbled it up on one side ; a second 

 was sufficient to remove the sheeting and rafters without reaching to the 

 tin rolled up on one side; while a third current threw it back into the last 

 position named. 



On the west front of Temperance Hall are a number of nails driven to 

 various depths head first. 



On tlie west end (facing the storm) of the oflice in a lumber yard, small 

 pine splinters, smaller than pipe-stems, are driven into the siding. 



