56. 



Lawrence, Kansas. — Xovembcr 8. — A rain, accompanied by sleet, falling 

 nearly all clay. The rain freezes almost as soon as it touches the gromid. 



HarrisonviUe, Missouri. — November 9. — Commenced snowing- or sleeting 

 about 7 a. m., and much timber has been broken down by it. 



Allentown, Missouri. — November 8. — Thunder and lightning from 3} to 4 

 p. m. 



St Louis, Missouri. — November 8. — Two thunder storms ; the most violent 

 was from midnight of the 8tb to 2 a. m. on the 9th. 



Guttcnhcrg, Iowa. — On the 6th, 7th, and 8th cold lains fell which formed a 

 crust on trees and fences. On the 9th, at noon, the rain changed to snow, and 

 fell to the depth of about four inches, but the wind carried it away from exposed 

 places, and piled it up behind fences and ravines to about two or three feet 

 deep. 



Algona, Iowa. — November 9. — A snow storm from the NW. this forenoon, 

 quite violent. 



Waterloo, lotva. — November 8. — Snow, rain, and freezing, storm from NW. 

 loth, snowed a little; trees all bent or broken to the ground. 



MontircUo, Iowa. — The snow of the 9th and lOtli caught a large amount of 

 corn in the fields in this part of this state. 15th. — The snow of the 9th and 

 10th still continues with us, preventing the harvesting of corn up to this date. 



Iowa Falls, loioa. — November 9. — Heavy snow storm. It is not quite so 

 cold as last wuiter, but the snow is flying so thick as to prevent seeing more 

 than a few rods. The wind blows a strong gale, and is piling the snow in 

 heavy and large drifts. 



loi^a City, Iowa. — November 9. — At 11 a. m., after a rain of two days, the 

 barometer fell, and snow, with violent wind, set in from the NW. During the 

 storm the wind Aeered so as to " box the compass," from the E., SE., S., SW., 

 W., to NW. 



Beaver Bay, Minnesota. — November 9. — North wind blew a hurricane at 

 10 p. m. 



Manitowoc, Wisconsin. — November 9 — At 4 p. m. the wind blew with a 

 force of six from NE., and, five minutes later, blew Avith the same velocity from 

 the SW.; barometer very low. 



Beloit, Wisconsin — November 9. — The lowest observation of the barometer 

 ever made at this station was this afternoon. The wind changed with great 

 rapidity from NE. to S., and then as quickly to NW. lietween 12 and 6 p. m. 

 the winds were exceedingly high. 



Delavan, Wisconsin. — November 9. — The fall of the barometer was mostly 

 from 11a. m. to 1 p. m. The wind changed from NE. at 1.15 p. m. and blew 

 a strong gale, first from the S. and afterwards from the W. 



Riley, Illinois. — November 9. — Rain all night and this forenoon. At 12 m. 

 the M-ind changed from NE. to SE. The mercury rose six degrees in half an 

 hour, then fell sixteen degrees in the next hour and a half, during which time 

 the wind went around to the SW., blowing a gale all the time, prostrating 

 fences and blowing the tops from stacks badly. About 4J p. m. snow fell for 

 half an hour — the first of the season. 



Hoylton, Illinois. — November 9. — It commenced raining last night at 6 p. m., 

 and there was a perfect gale through the night, with an abundance of rain and- 

 several thunder storms, mostly fi-om the south ; one came from the west. At 3 

 a. ra. of the 9th a tornado passed through one mile south of this place, doing 

 considerable damage. The starting point, as near as I can learn, was at or 

 near the town of Chester, on the Mississippi. It destroyed one half of the town 

 and killed twenty or more of the inhabitants." It took a northeast direction^ 

 passing a mile south of us. It had been raining for several hours, with a strong 

 south wind. A few minutes before three in the night the wind shifted almost 

 instantly into the west, blowing hard, though quite steady, with torrents of 



