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then strikes a barn while the timbers and boards fly in 

 every direction. 



Its course was a remarkably straight line a few points 

 to the north of east. The whizzing noise of the cj'clone 

 was terrific, ten times louder than the hum of our cotton 

 factory, and the whole scene was peculiarly grand, wild 

 and fearful." 



Mr. Dodge resumed his remarks : 



Continuing its course over fields, hills and valleys, here 

 and there uprooting trees, it struck upon the road that 

 leads from Wenham Centre to the Neck, where it made 

 sad havoc of an orchard belonging to Abraham Dodge, 

 demolishing his barn, as also a barn of Simeon Dodge in 

 which was a valuable horse that escaped harm as if by a 

 miracle. Passing on with fearful speed, it was seen to 

 uproot large trees and even to whirl them along in the 

 air, to overturn stone wall removing portions of it to 

 some distance. It next struck the house, barn and out- 

 buildings on the farm occupied by Asa W. Trout, on the 

 easterly spur of Brown's hill in Hamilton, and here it 

 seems to have spent its fury. The roof was lifted from 

 one side of the house and deposited in fragments on the 

 ground and the windows were smashed in on the side 

 most exposed. The barn was made a total wreck and the 

 pieces strown in all directions, large oak timbers being 

 carried to some distance. An orchard on the side of the 

 hill consisting of a large number of stalwart trees that had 

 defied the storms of nearly a century, were twisted up by 

 the roots and their branches and leaves coated with dirt 

 that had been caught up by the cyclone as it crossed a 

 neighboring corn-field. Even a horse that was feeding 

 near the barn, was taken up bodily and dropped in a field 

 some ways off and has not got over the injuries caused by 

 his involuntary jaunt in the air. Thence, the cyclone 



