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Andrew McKee, Cedar Township, Section 30, said—The 
clock, which had just been cleaned and regulated, was 
thrown down and stopped at 3.10 P.M. Previous to the tor- 
nado the lightning was warping incessantly like a snake 
among the dark blue clouds in the north-west. Chunks of 
ice, about x inch in diameter, fell previously to the tornado, 
accompanied by a light east wind. 
I myself saw the clock above mentioned. It still pointed 
to 3.10 P.M. Mr. McKee’s house stands 50 yards within the 
north-west limit of the storm-path. The buildings were 
partly pushed, partly blown down toward the S.S.E. The 
fences were blown to the south-east. A little empty house, 
about 40 yards to the east, was blown to the south-east, and 
some of it was carried clear across the path of the storm. 
The hedges along the east and west roads are here filled 
full of débris, such as corn stumps, &c. On the south-east 
of the storm-centre the débris is driven into the hedge from 
the south, and on the north-west side from the north, but 
there is a greater extent of hedge with débris driven into it 
from the south than from the north. The position of the 
débris driven in from the north seems frequently to have been 
subsequently affected by a west wind. ‘The hedges running 
north and south have débris driven into them on the north of 
the centre from the east and on the south of the centre from 
the west, but the extent of hedge with débris driven into it 
from the west is greater than that with débris driven into it 
from the east. The hedges over which the storm passed 
looked as if they had been whipped violently against a wall 
and then trailed in the mud; they were smashed and par- 
tially barked, and sometimes carried away. This description 
applies to the hedges over which the whirlwind, at any part 
of its course, passed. 
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