372 Observations on a Hurricane in Ohio. 
A wagon before the storm was standing in front of the house by 
the road-side. The next morning one wheel was found in the road. 
about thirty rods east of the house; another wheel a little farther 
north over the fence; the two remaining wheels at a still greater 
distance from the house and in the direction of the barn H. The 
wagon box was found half a mile distant in a northeast direction. 
There is another fact which appears to my mind still more re- 
markable. A very heavy cast-iron plough was lying between the 
two houses C and D; a massive iron chain was attached to it, and 
there was little wood-work about it. This plough was dragged along 
about four rods, and ploughed into the ground in several places. In 
one spot it appears to have been carried almost entirely around, 
removing all the turf from a space about four feet square, and throw- 
ing up the earth to the distance of six feet; the plough was broken 
so as to be worthless. Various light objects of clothing have been 
found in the neighboring towns ; a sheet was found in Franklin, three 
miles east in a straight line, and a silk frock with a bonnet was found 
in Streetsboro’, a distance of five miles in a direction east-northeast. 
My principal object in examining the ground has been to deter- 
mine the direction of the wind’s motion. This may be done tolera- 
bly well by observing the bearings of the fallen trees. Trees will 
usually fall very nearly in the direction of the wind which uproots 
them. I have therefore measured with a compass the direction of a 
very large number of the trees throughout that part of the track 
where the wind was most violent. On the north side of the road 
and close by the barn B on the west side of it, one tree fell S. 7° E., 
another south, and another S.9° W. Back of the house C, the 
trees fell S. 42° E.; S. 31° E.; and S. 12° E. A little farther 
east, between the houses C and D, several apple-trees fell in the 
direction S. 6° E.; S.12° E.; S. 31° E.; S. 42° E.; S.68° E. 
Those nearest the road were generally more inclined to the south 
than those near the borders of the track, but this rule was not without 
exceptions. Almost exactly north from the house D and at the dis- 
tance of about thirty rods, a tree fell S.49° W. A little farther 
east, an old tree but a stout one fell directly towards the barn E 
which bore S.16° E.; and still farther east, being directly north 
from the barn, and distant about twenty rods, an oak tree two feet 
in diameter but somewhat decayed fell S. 54° W. In this neigh- 
borhood, the whole number of trees was very small. Still further 
east near the house G but west of it, the trees fell S. 26° E.; 
S. 82° W- ; N. 86° W. 
