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2. From tbe log-book of the yacht Fox, Sir Leopold McCliutock's Arc- 

 tic Exploratiou, eighty-nine appearances of the aurora were followed by 

 eighteen storms within the time sj)ecified in the foregoing rule 5 or, in 

 other words, the cases in ftivor of the rule were eighteen, while those 

 against it were seventy-one. 



3. In an examination of the records of the observations of Professor 

 Caswell at Providence, Rhode Island, it was found that in seventy-two 

 cases the assumed rule failed, while only in seventeen cases did it ap- 

 l^ear to be sustained. — [J. H.] 



ACCOUXT OF A STOKM IN BUTLER COUXTY, KANSAS, JUNE 23, 1871, 



By W.m. Harrison, of Elporado, Kansas. 



The storm came from the northwest, from the plains, striking the 

 northwest corner of Butler County. It seemed to be abouf ten or twelve 

 miles wide. Many forest-trees were blown down and twisted off; houses 

 and crops were very much injured or entirely destroyed. The violence 

 of the storm seemed to be greatest about the town of Eldorado, in which, 

 almost every house was more or less injured. I think at least fifty 

 houses were entirely destroyed. The walls of the court-house, which 

 are of stone, withstood the storm, but the roof, which was of tin, was 

 blown off entire, and covered up a blacksmith-shop about a hundred 

 yards distant. Many people in Eldorado were injured, and two children 

 were killed. The injury was not done by blowing people away, but by 

 dashing them violently to the earth. Its violence was so great that no 

 one could stand on his feet. It passed Eldorado in a southeast direc- 

 tion, doing great injury to the crops, and blowing down almost every 

 house which was directly in its path. The storm consisted of rain and 

 hail as well as of wind. The rain was unprecedented in this region. No 

 wooden-built house, however well constructed, was proof against its 

 driving intensity. The water in the streets of Eldorado was a foot deep. 

 I can form no estimate of the damage to buildings, fences, cattle, crops, 

 &c., but it is very great. Almost every one in the path of the storm 

 was more or less injured. One house was blown down in Chelsea. I 

 had a small house in Eldorado which was demolished, a part of it car- 

 ried three hundred yards to the river, and then carried down the stream. 



