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most remote from the building, the fragments are covered by- 

 corn thrown down in the opposite direction. A more striking 

 example of the same fact, is seen near the eastern limits of the 

 tornado, \vhere the fragments of a roof are scattered towards the 

 west, while a tree a iev^ paces from .the building, is turned di- 

 rectly towards the building, covering a portion of the fragments. 

 At C is represented a limited spot in a cornfield where the stalks 

 lie in every direction. While in a few places, at distant points, 

 particular spots seem to have been subjected to a peculiar violence, 

 other limited spots exhibit a remarkable exemption from the ef- 

 fects of the tornado. In a garden near H, are a few rows of pole 

 beans apparently untouched by the storm, \vhile within a few 

 feet on either hand, the most violent effects are exhibited. Near 

 L, a barn was demolished, and a dove-cote scattered in fragments, 

 while a hen-roost which stood feebly on blocks, was unharmed. 

 Large trees in the immediate vicinity were torn up by the roots. 

 A house that stood between I, and L, was completely torn in 

 pieces, leaving nothing but the southern half of the ground floor. 

 In the room of this floor, a woman was washing, and another was 

 at work in a basement room immediately below, while her child 



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the woman 



of the house. They saw the tornado approaching ; 

 in the basement ran up and caught her child in her arms, and 

 immediately afterwards found herself and child in an open field 

 a few paces north of the house, the child having been carried only 

 a (e\v feet from the spot where they were, while the mother was 

 carried eighteen or twenty feet farther to the westward. The 

 other wonian meanwhile was swept off from the floor where she 

 was standing and carried northward and deposited in the cellar, the 

 floor of the northern Iialf of the house having been borne away 

 along with other parts of the building. None of the party were 

 seriously injured. A bureau that was in the room where the 

 Woman was washing, was carried half a mile to the eastward, and 

 portions of it were found sticking in the sides of a barn, having 

 penetrated the thick w^all of plank. A silk cape also was taken 

 from this house, and carried over East Rock to the distance of 

 three miles. In a bam that was blown down on the east side 

 of East Rock, a boy that was on a load of hay in the barn, was 

 transported across the street and deposited in a neighboring field 

 unharmed. 



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