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like large flattened chestnut-buiTS. A man in the neigliborhood said he weighed 

 one of these monsters in a spring scale, and it weighed nearly a pound. — {G. W. 

 Harper^ of Cincinnati.) 



Attstinhurg, Ohio. — August 2G. — Thunder shower at /i.l5 p. m., with high 

 wind. Liglituing north and east at 9 p. m. 



Cleveland, Ohio. — August 26. — Overcast most of the day. Furious wind 

 and heavy rain after 4 J p. m.; three-quarters of an inch of rain fell in ten min- 

 utes. 



Kingston, Ohio. — August 26. — The rain this morning came up with thunder 

 and lightning. This evening, at 6j o'clock, the thunder and lightning were 

 severe. At 9 o'clock p. m., there is still lightning, but it is not raining. 



Neiv Lisbon, Ohio. — August 26. — Storm of rain, Aviud, thunder, and light- 

 ning, from 6 a. m. to 1 p. m. 



Kelley's Island, Ohio. — August 26. — Very violent shower from 3.30 p. m. 

 to 4.15 p. m. Wind very strong from NW. For a few moments hailstones, 

 size of hazelnuts, and some still larger, fell in large quantity, doing considerable 

 damage to grapes. An inch and two-hundredths of water fell in three-fourths of 

 an hour. 



Neiocastle, Indiana. — Very heavy rain and thunder storm from 4j to 5 a. m. 

 during which time it rained an inch and six-tenths. Showers at noon and 5^-, 

 p. m. Incessant lightning in S. and SE. all the evening, quite distant and low 

 down. 



Neio Albany, Indiana. — August 26. — A severe rain-storm occurred to-day. 

 At 6 a. m. the wind was SW., with dark clouds to the westward, with heavy 

 thunder. At 7^ or 1\ a. m. it commenced raining, the water coming down in a 

 perfect deluge — the wind rapidly changing from the SW. to W., then NW., 

 and finally to NE. About one inch of rain fell within an hour and a half. 

 About noon, the wind having changed back to the SW., another storm came 

 up, in which nearly another inch of rain fell. Soon after sunset another cloud 

 came up, but the amount of rain did not exceed fifteen-hundredths of an inch. 

 So great a quantity of rain has not fallen in one day in this vicinity for several 

 years. At 9 p. m. the sky was clear, with the exception of a low bank of 

 clouds to the southward, constantly illuminated by a blaze of sheet-lightning; 

 wind NW. 



Indianajwlis, Indiana. — August 26. — About 3i p. m., dark clouds in NW. 

 from this point were rising, with lightning and heavy thunder ; supposed 15 to 

 20 miles distant. These bore round N. and NE. ; the main dark clouds, rising 

 about 45° above the horizon, were darker, and moved with greater velocity than 

 usual thunder-storms. About 4 p. m., or a little earlier, the main force of this 

 cloud had passed over, and in its track northward, clouds broken and agitated, 

 without special direction, had taken its place, rising higher than the storm- 

 cloud. About this time, 4 p. m., a succeeding thunder-storm of ordinary mag 

 nitude, rising in NW., was advancing towards this place, and at the same time 

 clouds rising in southwest were coming up and passing overhead with great 

 velocity toward the NE. The clouds seemed to threaten a storm for some 

 time, but settled in a brisk shower, without wind, at 4^ to 4f p. m. 



Lawrenccburg, Dearborn county, Indiana. — Seventy-five miles southeast of 

 Indianapolis, about a quarter before six o'clock in the afternoon of August 26, 

 the train on the Indianapolis railroad, which left Cincinnati at 4.20 p. m. for 

 Chicago, was blown from the track at a point near Wirtnell's bridge, fifteen 

 miles below Lawrenceburg, by one of the most terrific tornadoes that has ever 

 visited that section of the country. As the train approached the bridge, the 

 atmosphere seemed filled with branches of trees and missiles of various kinds, 

 which the wind had taken up in its path ; and the engineer, thinking the bridge 

 unsafe, increased the speed of the engine, so as to reach the protection of the 

 hills beyond. He was too late ; for the hurricane, resistless in its energy and 



