g. Vegetation in the track is often scorched and killed, and so of the leaves on one side of a tree, which is within the track, while those on the other side, and without the track remain unaffected. (Espy’s Philosophy of Storms, 359, cited from Peltier.)
h. The active agent whatever it is, has been known to seize hold of a chain attached to a plow and draw the plow about, turning the stiff sod for a considerable distance. (See Loomis on the tornado at Stow, Ohio, American Journal of Science, vol. xxxiii. p. 368.)
i. In passing over ponds, the spout has taken up all the water and fish, and scattered them in every direction, and to a great distance.
j. The barometer falls very little during the passage of the spout. (See the Natchez hurricane of 1827, Espy page 337.) Not more than it frequently does during gentle showers.
k. Persons have been taken up, carried some distance, and if not projected against some object in the way, or some object against them, have usually been set down gently and uninjured.
l. Buildings which stood upon posts, with a free passage for the air under them, although in the path of the tornado, escaped undisturbed. (Olmstead’s account of the New Haven tornado, American Journal of Science, vol. xxxvii. p 340.)
m. A chisel taken from a chest of tools, and stuck fast in the wall of the house. (Ibid.)
n. Fowls have had all their feathers stripped from them in an instant and run about naked but uninjured.[5]
o. Articles of furniture, etc., have been found torn in pieces by antagonistic forces.
p. Frames taken from looking-glasses without breaking the glass. Nails drawn from the roofs of houses without disturbing the tiles.