FURIOUS TORNADO, : 85 
’ About dark, on the day mentioned, this storm arose, and 
passing over the country in a vein a mile wide, left marks of 
its ravages, which were as indelible as they were destructive. 
The motion of the tornado was undulatory, evidenced by 
the manner in which every thing it came ‘in contact with was 
treated; as for instance, a very heavy ox wagon was taken 
up and carried a quarter of a mile, where it stuck in the 
ground to the axletree; taken up again, it was carried several 
hundred yards farther, and there the wheels were twisted off, 
and a tire broken and twisted into several pieces. 
Fences were blown off, driven into the ground, broken off, 
and again blown a long distance. 
Two women were taken up and blown three-quarters of 
a mile, impinging three times against the ground in their 
terrific flight. 
A horse was blown into a tree, where it happened to 
catch by its fore-leg and shoulder; these were torn from 
the body and were still hanging there, the balance of the 
earcase lying in a field full a-quarter of a mile off. 
A sheep was blown into the top of a high tree, where we 
saw it as we passed. 
The strata of wind seems also to have been about ten 
feet from the ground, rising and falling, as the trees in its 
course were broken off in a manner clearly so to indicate. 
One house, also, was blown down to the foundations, whilst 
another, beyond and in a line with it, had the roof taken of 
In short, the whole scene — the result of great and 
