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straight northeastward toward Pearl Rock. All the damage in that 4-mile 

 stretch is within a belt half a mile wide. There then follows a long reach 

 without a visible trace of the storm; but there, as elsewhere in the storm's 

 track, the greater part of the country is in pasture land and fields on 

 which there are now no crops. There are no trees except along the banks 

 of streams and around farm buildings. 



Pearl Rock. Pearl Rock is a cluster of 8 or 10 farm houses at the 

 crossroads forming the boundary lines between four counties — Butler. 

 Floyd, Chickasaw, and Bremer; it is some 8 miles from the neighborhood 

 known as Lower Pleasant Valley and lies northeast of the latter. The 

 storm struck there (Pearl Rock) at 4:20 p. m., killing one woman and 

 causing a property loss in and near the village estimated at |.50,000. 



Nashua. After leaving Pearl Rock there is a reach where the path of 

 the storm is lost before it struck (4:30 p. m.) the eastern side of the town 

 of Nashua, Chickasaw County, 3 miles northeast of Pearl Rock. I was 

 given practically the same description of the formation of a tornado cloud 

 before the Nashua damage began, as that given by the man at Lower 

 Pleasant Valley. The people who witnessed the gathering of the clouds 

 did not then know that a tornado had visited Pearl Rock and thought that 

 one was originating over them. They had the same weather and subse- 

 quent changes as at Lower Pleasant Valley: Saw two thunder clouds 

 meet; heard the same roaring and saw the funnel descend. Along the 

 river bank, and at the apparent end of the storm track from Pearl Rock 

 toward Nashua there is a heavy timber growth. The upper limbs of the 

 trees are stripped of branches, foliage, and so much of their bark that 

 their nakedness is noticeable as far away as the trees can be seen. None 

 of the trees are uprooted or show damage near the ground. If the storm 

 at Nashua was the same one that formed .at Lower Pleasant Valley and 

 later struck Pearl Rock, the funnel was receding into the cloud when it 

 passed over those trees, and had lost its identitj' when the cloud ap- 

 proached Nashua. 



In eastern Nashua and near by, one man was killed and about $100,001) 

 worth of property, mainly farm buildings and stock, was destroyed. The 

 time is generally placed at 4:30 p. m. 



New Hampton. From Nashua the storm's track lies northeastward to 

 New Hampton, in Chickasaw County and 18 miles from Nashua. The time 

 it struck New Hampton is placed at 5 p. m. Between the two towns the 

 destruction of property was great in localities, with no trace of the storm 

 at other points within the reputed 2-mile width of its path. One woman 

 was killed 6 miles southwest of New Hampton, one man on a farm a mile 

 north of where the woman was killed, and a boy 1 mile south of the 

 town. The property loss in and near New Hampton is estimated at 

 $160,000, mostly in farm buildings and stock; the loss in the town was only 

 a few thousand. 



Calmar. From New Hampton the storm track lies northeastward to 

 Calmar, in Winneshiek County, 25 miles from New Hampton and 54 miles 

 from Lower Pleasant Valley. The postmaster at Calmar places the time 

 of the storm's arrival at 5:30 p. m. Two people were killed in the town 

 and one on a farm I14 miles east of town. The property loss is estimated 

 at between $200,000 and $250,000, mainly in farm buildings and stock. The 



