234 Account of a Storm in New Hampshire. 
ton it passed over the southwest branch or spur of Kearsarge 
- mountain, with a gore of land belonging to Warner, called Kear- 
sarge gore. At the foot of this mountain, it entirely demolished 
five barns, unroofed another, and utterly destroyed two dwelling 
houses and-so rent another as to render it irrepairable. 
The houses wholly destroyed belonged to two brothers, Robert 
and Daniel Savary. They contained fourteen persons. In the 
house of the latter were three aged parents, seventy years old, I 
should think, or upwards. The old gentleman, as he saw the 
cloud commis went into a chamber to close a window, and was 
there when the wind struck the house. He was carried four or 
five rods, dashed upon the rock, and instantly killed. A part of 
his brain was left upon the ok where he fell. His wife was 
very badly wounded, and it was thought would not recover. 
A child of Daniel Savary, in the same house, was also killed. In 
the house of Robert Savary, several were much wounded and 
bruised, but no lives lost. The houses and barns and other 
buildings at this place were not only levelled with the founda- 
tion, but the materials and contents were dashed in ten thou 
pieces, and scattered in every direction. Carts, wagons, sleighs, 
ploughs, and sleds which were new and strong, (one ox-sled, I 
recollect, was entirely new,) were carried to a considerable dis- 
tance—from twenty to sixty.rods—and so broken and shattered 
as to be fit only for fuel. Stone walls were levelled, and rocks 
weighing two, three, or four hundred pounds, were turned out of 
their beds, apparently by the bare force of the wind. Large logs, 
also, two feet or more in diameter, which were bedded into the 
ground, and were fifty or sixty feet long, were not sufficiently 
weighty to retain their location. In one instance I recollect to 
have seen one large log lying upon another in such a condition, 
that it was thought by good judges, that ten yoke of oxen could 
not have moved the lower one from its bed; but both were re- 
moved by the wind several feet. An elm pas near where old 
Mr. Savary fell, which was one foot at least in diameter, and too 
strongly rooted to yield, was twisted like a withe to the ground, 
and lay prostrate across the path like a wilted weed. Not an 
apple or forest tree was left standing. One barn was seen to be 
taken up whole, with its contents of hay, grain, &c. After being 
carried several rods, it came to pieces, and flew like feathers in 
every direction. : 
a 
| 
ie 
sad 
oy | 
‘ 
