Airwaves for travelled around half the country for times one way and five times the other. Every recording barometer in this country was disturbed by the forceful whirl of this twister. It is said the noise of this twister was heard at Lincoln all 162 miles from Chestertown. It was felt at Joliet, and at St Louis 350 miles away. The up-roar of the tornado was heard over a sound zone covering one-thirteenth of this Country of the United States.
Also it is said great concussion waves were created by the noise which destroyed and shook out all the windows of all the towns and villages as far as 30 miles, raise the cloud of dust thousands of feet high covering 50 miles with falling debris of every description and created hell along all its course
Out of the River I've seen it myself the twister tore up the remains of a wreck that disappeared in the