BULLETIN 



ESSEX UnTSTITUTB. 



Vol. 3. Salem, Mass., July, 1871. No. 7. 



One Dollar a Year in Advance. 10 Cents a Single Copy. 



Field Meeting at North Beverly, June 10th, 1871. 



[Continued.] 

 TORNADO, OR CYCLONE, AT WENHAM. 



Mr. Dodge said, that since the appointment of the 

 meeting, there had occurred in this immediate neighbor- 

 hood, an event so rare in New England and of a char- 

 acter so fearful and destructive, he would make it the 

 sul ject of his remarks. He alluded to the tornado or 

 cyclone of the Sunday previous, which passed within a 

 mile of his own residence, and the effects of which he had 

 himself witnessed. The first we heard of it in this vicin- 

 ity was just before five o'clock P. M., at or near Swan's 

 crossing in Danvers, where it was seen by two men as 

 they were riding by, to whom it had the appearance of a 

 column of vapor and dust rushing past in a north easterly 

 direction, but doing no damage. It was next seen by 

 Daniel H. Johnson, the Superintendent of the Salem 

 Water Works, whose duties called him that day to 

 Wenham Lake. From him is the following graphic 

 description. 



" It was my good fortune last Sunday afternoon at a few 



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