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The hurricane commenced a little west of the house A. 

 Its violence rapidly increased as it advanced eastward, and 

 throughout that whole part of the track which is represented 

 in the diagram, a large proportion of the trees were levelled. 

 Where no trees are represented on the diagram, there were 

 very few, if any, to be uprooted. Eight buildings were 

 unroofed; three pthers were considerably injured, and the 

 remainder of those on the diagram escaped with a few panes 

 of broken glass. But it was the house D, upon which the 

 storm poured its principal violence. This was a small frame 

 house of one story, and had been built but two years. It 

 was situated upon a slight eminence or knoll, and was not 

 protected at all from the fury of the wind. The house was 

 occupied by Mr. Frederick Sanford, his wife and mother, 

 with three children. On the evening of the 19th, the family 

 were absent from home to attend a wedding. They re- 

 turned about midnight, and Mrs. Sanford states that it was 

 then raining moderately, the lightning was somewhat vivid, 

 and the wind fresh. They retired to bed and were soon 

 asleep. Mrs. S. relates that she was awakened from a 

 sound sleep by a crash, which she presumes was occasioned 

 by the falling chimney ; almost at the same instant she felt 

 that the house was moving ; there was a tremendous roar- 

 ing noise, and further than this she has no recollection. In 

 the morning, the neighbors found the house a perfect wreck. 

 Not a timber was left in its place. The foundation stones 

 were not disturbed, but the entire frame of the house was 

 lifted up, and carried in the direction of the barn E. A por- 

 tion of the foundation frame was dropped almost immedi- 

 ately, and lay but a few feet from the foundation walls. 

 The bricks of the chimney were, most of them, carried but 

 a short distance, and were scattered along precisely in the 

 direction of the barn. A considerable number of bricks, 

 however, constituting, as is supposed, that part of the chim- 

 ney which rose above the roof, were carried to a greater 



