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cover. Animals of various kinds were lying dead among the ruins. 
There were pigs, geese, hens and turkeys, in considerable numbers, 
and several of the fowls were picked almost clean of their feathers, 
as if it had been done carefully by hand. Neither Mrs. Sanford nor 
her daughter are able to give any satisfactory account of the hurri- 
cane, for they were both of them awakened from a sound sleep by 
the crash of the house, and the next instant they were dashed sense- 
less upon the ground. I have stated that the house was carried in 
the direction of the barn. About half of the roof and frame fell 
near the S. W. corner of the barn, and some of the timbers fell 
near the S. E. corner. Several heavy joists lay scattered forty or 
fifty rods beyond the barn, but all in nearly the same direction from 
the house. ‘There were several very remarkable facts, showing the 
power of the wind, which I should not have been prepared to credit 
had I not observed them for myself. I visited the spot the day after 
the hurricane, and have observed it once since that time. An ox- 
cart, before the storm, was standing close by, and in the rear of, Mr. 
Sanford’s house, and was loaded with potatoes. ‘The cart was lifted 
up by the wind; it soon turned a somerset, so as to empty out the 
potatoes upon the ground, and nearly all in aheap. The cart itself 
was dropped a few rods behind the barn, and at a distance of thirty 
rods from the house. If the cart moved in a straight line it must 
have passed directly over the barn. Indeed, it is quite probable that 
such was the case; for the cart struck flat upon one wheel which 
buried itself to a considerable depth in the earth. The spokes were 
all broken, apparently by the severity of this fall, and there is no ap- 
pearance of the cart’s having been injured previously to the fall, with 
the exception of the loss of the boards which lined the body. ‘There 
are no marks of the cart’s having been dragged along upon the 
ground, but on the other hand, the wheel imbedded in the earth 
shows that the cart fell nearly perpendicularly, and from a consider- 
able height. It is then probable that it passed directly over the barn. 
There was a heavy drag, moreover, taken from nearly the same spot 
with the cart, and which also fell by its side beyond the barn. ‘The 
roof of the barn was somewhat injured, losing some shingles and 
boards, and it is conjectured that the drag might have struck the 
roof in passing over it. I attach but little importance, however, to 
the question whether the cart and drag actually passed over the barn. 
It is at least certain, that they were transported by the wind about 
thirty rods, and fell from a considerable height. 
