The actual diameter of this storm appears to have been only forty-three yards. On the right of the track, destructive winds extended to a further distance of from one to two miles, sensibly deflected winds for another mile and a half, beyond which only the usual wind of the day was experienced. On the left or northern side of the tornado path, the damage did not extend quite so far, for the width of the belt of destructive winds was not more than twenty-eight yards across and that of sensibly deflected winds one mile and a quarter. As a specimen of the damage done a large two-horse sulky plow, weighing about seven hundred pounds, was carried a distance of twenty yards, breaking off one of the iron wheels attached to an iron axle one and three-quarter inches in diameter. A woman was carried to the northwest two hundred yards, lodged against a barbed-wire fence, and instantly killed. Her clothing was entirely stripped from her body, which was found covered with black mud, and her hair matted with it. A cat was found half a mile to the northwest of the house, in which she had been seen just before the storm, with every bone broken. Chickens were stripped of their feathers, and one was found three miles to the northwest. A few miles further on, another eye-witness says, “the dark, inky, funnel-shaped cloud rapidly descended to the earth, which reaching, it destroyed everything within its grasp. Everything was taken up and carried round and round in the mighty whirl of the terrible monster. The surrounding clouds seemed to roll and tumble toward the vortex. “The funnel, now extending from the earth upward to a great height, was black as ink, excepting the cloud near the top, which resembled smoke of a light color. Immediately after passing the town, there came a wave of hot air, like the wind blowing from a burning building. It lasted but a short time. Following this peculiar feature, there came a stiff gale from the northwest, cold and bleak, so much so that during the night frost occurred, and water in some low places was frozen.” END OF VOLUME TWO FOOTNOTES: [1] The lakes of Sweden, which cover one-twelfth of the surface of the country, exercise an important influence on climate according as they are frozen or open. [2] Another variety or species of seal inhabits Lake Baikal. [3] Count von Helmersen, however, has stated his belief that for this extreme northern prolongation of the Aralo-Caspian Sea there is no evidence. The shells, on the presence of which over the Tundras the opinion was chiefly based, are, according to him, all fresh-water species, and there are no marine shells of living species to be met with in the plains at the foot of the Ural Mountains. [4] Archbishop of Spalato and Primate of Dalmatia. TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE Obvious typographical errors and punctuation errors have been corrected after careful comparison with other occurrences within the text and consultation of external sources.