The Massachusetts spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1821-1823, 1821-09-26

buried more than q foot. The oven had Just
been heated, and the bricks were so hot that
N removing them from bis children, Mr.. T..
had his fingers buTat to the bone. Mrs T.
and several of the family were badly burnt,
and one child is 80 disdgured as hardly to be
known. The youngest child, an infant seven
weeks old, was found at the distance of one
hundred feet under the bottom of a sleigh,
the top of which cannot be found. The amaz-
ing power Of the wind may be family imagine
ed from the evidences now TO be seen. In
one place near Deac. True's. hemlock log
l-2 feet through and 30 feet long, and near
~ hall buried in the earth, was moved one or
two rods. At another place, two hemlock
logs OF the same size with the other, one IS
feet long, and the other about 40, lying across
each other, were moved about twelve feet. and
left in the same situation as before. The en-
tire top of one Of the chimnies was carried 10
rods, and left the bricks together on one spot.
MIR. True saw a tree whirlins perpendicularly
IN the air to an immense height. An elm tree
standing little south of Savary's, measuring
IL inches diameter, whose enormous roots
refused to yield, and being too tough to break,
was twisted round like a withe and a few
ash trees standing at tie foot of the hill, were
stripped OF bark and limbs, and split literally
Into basket-stufft
The tornado then passed into Warner again,
tearing down barn, and passing over pond,
the waters of which seemed to be drawn up in
its centre, terminated its ravages in this quar-
fer, in the woods of Boscawen.
The whirlwind is said to have commenced
as far hank as -lalka ChainI,lain: AUTH ntielz
Information reaches no further than Croydon
from whence it extended in the direction stat
IL IN Eko ami r4xaA
represent, more like a trumpet faring at the
top-afternately rising and falling, sometimes
extending beyond sight in the heavens; its
width varied from hall mile to six rods, ap-
parently narrowing its sphere As it passed on
ward. It's appearance must have been most
awful at Wendell, and its violence the great
est there and at w-London.
The above facts, although they partake of
the marvellous, are literally true. OF the de-
struction in Wendell, &c. we had the relation
from gentleman OF high reputation in New
port, whose testimony was corroborated by
dozen individuals who visited Wendell with
him the day following the event. What re-
lates to Warner, and the destruction on the
east side of Kearsage mountains, We know to
be true, having ourselves visited the spot.
We there saw the stone against which the I'M
fortunate Savary was crushed-the places
from whence were dug the children Of
True and Savary-the children themselves
/, mangled and torn--the mothers mourning the
loss of an aged husband and an infant child
We witnessed the awe of the inmates of these
distressed families. We stood at the foot Of
the mountain, and surveyed the track of the
whirlwintS--it appeared as if arushing itorrent
had poured down the mountain for many days,
the earth being torn up, the grass withered,
and nothing fresh and living to be seen in the
path of desolation. Aiay God in mercy avert
sucn another catastrophe