and their moorings, but without any considerable 

 damage except to two ships. Sad havoc has been 

 made with the lumber and wood on the wharves, 

 great quantities of fence blown dovm and numbers 

 of trees torn up. by the roots. People hardly 

 thought themselves safe in their own houses, for 

 a more violent storm has scarce ever been known 

 here . " 



e. 19-20 October 1770 . From "History of the State of 

 Rhode Island" by Samuel Greene Arnold. 



"A violent storm again blew down a part of 

 the spire of trinity Church at Nevroort, and caused 

 an immense loss of life and property along the 

 coast. Newport suffered very severely in this 



gale." 



f . 23 September I8l5 . From "Historic Storms of New 

 England" by Sidney Per ley. 



"The storm began at three o'clock on the 

 morning of Friday, the twenty-second, when- the 

 wind was at the northeast, and rain fell copiously 

 until STonrise. Shortly after, the clouds partly 

 broke away, and fair weather seemed about to 

 return. During the forenoon, however, the clouds 

 became thicker, the sky darkened, and in some 

 .sections of New England rain fell to a consider- 

 able amount. In the afternoon the wind blew with 

 increased force, and rain continued to fall in 

 small quantities. Through the night the wind 

 was laoderate, and there vxas a slight fall of rain, 

 but before sunrise next morning the wind again 

 became violent having changed to the east in the 

 night, and about nine o'clock it shifted to the 

 southeast, and continued to increase in force 

 until it blew so fiercely that buildings, fences, 

 trees, vessels along the exposed sections of the 

 coast, and all kinds of movable things, were 

 swept away before it. But little rain fell during 

 the tornado where it was the fiercest. The wind 

 did not blow steadily, but came in gusts, and 

 continued its work of destruction -until noon, 

 when it cnanged to the southwest, after vrhich it 

 quickly subsided. Then a little more rain fell, 

 but before night pleasant weather had come. 



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