234 Account of a Storm in New Hampshire. 



ton it passed over the southwest branch or spur of Kearsarge 

 mountain, with a gore of land belonging to Warner, called Kear- 

 sarge gore. At the foot of this mountain, it entirely demolished 

 five barns, unroofed another, and utterly destroyed two dwelling 

 houses and so rent another as to render it irrepairable. 



The houses wholly destroyed belonged to two brothers, Robert 

 and Daniel Savary. They contained fourteen persons. In the 

 house of the latter were three aged parents, seventy years old, I 

 should think, or upwards. The old gentleman, as he saw the 

 cloud coming, went into a chamber to close a window, and was 

 there when the wind struck the house. He was carried four or 

 five rods, dashed upon the rock, and instantly killed. A part of 

 his brain was left upon the rock where he fell. His wife was 

 very badly wounded, and it was thought would not recover. 

 A child of Daniel Savary, in the same house, was also killed. In 

 the house of Robert Savary, several were much wounded and 

 bruised, but no lives lost. The houses and barns and other 

 buildings at this place were not only levelled with the founda- 

 tion, but the materials and contents were dashed in ten thousand 

 pieces, and scattered in every direction. Carts, wagons, sleighs, 

 ploughs, and sleds which were new and strong, (one ox-sled, I 

 recollect, was entirely new,) were carried to a considerable dis- 

 tance — from twenty to sixty rods — and so broken and shattered 

 as to be fit only for fuel. Stone walls were levelled, and rocks 

 weighing two, three, or four hundred pounds, were turned out of 

 their beds, apparently by the bare force of the wind. Large logs, 

 also, two feet or more in diameter, which were bedded into the 

 ground, and were fifty or sixty feet long, were not sufficiently 

 weighty to retain their location. In one instance I recollect to 

 have seen one large log lying upon another in such a condition, 

 that it was thought by good judges, that ten yoke of oxen could 

 not have moved the lower one from its bed ; but both were re- 

 moved by the wind several feet. An elm tree near where old 

 Mr, Savary fell, which was one foot at least in diameter, and too 

 strongly rooted to yield, was twisted like a withe to the ground, 

 and lay prostrate across the path like a wilted weed. Not an 

 apple or forest tree was left standing. One barn was seen to be 

 taken up whole, with its contents of hay, grain, &c. After being 

 carried several rods, it came to pieces, and flew like feathers in 

 every direction. 



