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Examples occur where one portion of the same hill of corn 

 is turned westward, and another portion eastward. 



In a garden near H 1 are a few rows of pole beans appa- 

 rently untouched by the storm, while 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 frag- 

 ments, 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 wo- 

 man was washing, and another was at work in a base- 

 ment room immediately below, while her child was asleep 

 in a cradle in a room above, at the north eastern angle of the 

 house. They saw the tornado approaching; the woman 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 few feet from the spot where they were, while 

 the mother was carried eighteen or twenty feet farther to 

 the westward. The other woman, meanwhile, was swept 

 off from the floor where she was standing and carried north- 

 ward and deposited in the cellar, the floor of the northern 

 half 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 wall of plank. A silk cape also 

 was taken from this house, and carried over East Rock, to 

 the distance of three miles. In a barn 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 depo- 

 sited in a neighboring field unharmed. 



1 The references in this paragraph are to a diagram in Silliman's Journal, 

 which we have not the means of copying. Eds. Jour, of Com. 



