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to be filled with crows, an appearance afterwards ex- 

 plained by the fact that shingles, boards, (fee., had been car- 

 ried upward by the tempest from buildings destroyed in that 

 vicinity. 



On reaching the height of land, at about half a mile from 

 the dense portion of the city, the first buildings which had 

 been damaged by the tornado were passed. A bam had 

 been completely demolished, and most of the lighter mate- 

 rials scattered to a great distance. The house was not 

 thrown down, but left leaning, with no part of the roof re- 

 maining, except some of the rafters ; and the fact here wit- 

 nessed was repeatedly observed in the town below, where 

 several houses, within the path of the tornado, were de- 

 prived of their shingles, and the ribs which had held them 

 to the rafters : but the latter still continued partially or en- 

 tirely undisturbed. In a few cases, in which the ridge of a 

 building lay in a northerly and southerly position, the eastern 

 slope of roof was observed to be removed, or at least stripped of 

 its shingles, while the western slope remained entire. Many 

 buildings were likewise observed with holes in their roofs, 

 whether shingled or tiled, but otherwise not much damaged, 

 unless by the demolition of windows. These appearances 

 clearly demonstrated the strong upward tendency of the 

 forces by which they were produced, while the half un- 

 roofed houses, already mentioned, prove that the resultant 

 of all the forces in action at the moment was not in a per- 

 pendicular to the horizon, but inclined to the east. Such a 

 force would apply to the western slope of the roof some 

 counteracting tendency, or relieve it from some portion of 

 the upward pressure. Had there been no other facts to 

 show the powerful rushing of currents upward, the above 

 would, it is conceived, have been sufficient to settle the 

 question, but taken in connection with the circumstance 

 that roofs so removed, were carried to a great height, and 

 their fragments distributed over a large extent along the 



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