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In all descriptions of the tornado's path ; in giving any particular destruction 

 in it, or in detailing your experience while the tornado cloud was passing, be 

 careful to state on which side of the centre (to the N. or to the S. and how far) 

 the damage occurred or you were situated while a witness of the scene. 



CIRCULAR NO. II. — QUESTIONS AND REMARKS. 



1. What day of the month and at what time of the day did the tornado 

 cloud pass ? Take great care in giving the exact time. Perhaps you watched 

 your clock or noted the approach or passage of a railroad train. 



2. Give the position of your house with respect to the nearest Post Office, 

 indicating the same in miles and parts of miles or rods; state the distance in 

 northing and easting, northing and westing, southing and easting and southing 

 and westing, estimated along section and township lines. 



3. How far and in what direction is your house situated from the centre 

 of the path of destruction ? 



4. Give the direction and distance from your house to your various farm 

 buildings, if possible drawing a plan of the same and indicating the points of the 

 compass. This plan need only be a rough sketch. 



5. Give the dimensions of your buildings and state the character of each 

 as to whether they are log, frame, stone or brick and weak or strong. 



6. In drawing a plan of your buildings, indicate the position of the tor- 

 nado's path with respect to each of them and the direction in which the tornado 

 cloud moved. 



7. State in detail and separately the damage to each building; what por- 

 tion or portions were taken away or injured; how far and in what direction were 

 they moved bodily; what portion of each was first struck by the wind, and how 

 far and in what direction was the debris carried ? Be very careful to give the 

 exact position and peculiarities of structure of buildings which were not damaged 

 although standing near those which were destroyed. 



8. In the damage or destruction of each or any building, state particularly 

 how far and in what direction any portion of them was carried a considerable 

 distance. 



9. If any object has been carried a long distance by the force of the wind, 

 state where and what it came from ; its dimensions ; its shape ; probable height to 

 which transported in the air ; whether driven into the ground or not, how far and 

 into what kind of earth. 



10. State whether articles of clothing, fowls or animals were carried into 

 the air, to what height, to what horizontal distance and in what direction. 



11. Give detailed destruction of furniture contained in the house and of 

 farming implements in or about the barns. 



12. State the number, kind and in what manner, stock were killed or injured 

 and whether at the time of the storm they were in or without buildings. Also 

 narrate any miraculous escapes of life. 



