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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 456

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of Williamstown, transforming whatwas the moment before a lovely village of theplain into a scene of devastation. Houses,barns, and other buildings were destroyed, andhuman beings carried through space as if theywere but feathers. aborigines had their home, stood a huge wal-nut-tree that bore on… … RUINS OF A HOUSE DESTROYED BY THE CYCLONE. Many lives were lost, and many homes lit-erally swept from the face of the earth. Therewere many miraculous escapes. A baby, six-teen months old, was discovered by the road-side several hundred yards away from the house,asleep and uninjured. An old lady…

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