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The Daily Dispatch: July 20, 1861., [Electronic resource], Steam towing abandoned. (search)
Water Spouts in New Hampshire. --A correspondent of the Manchester Mirror gives the following account of a terrific water spout on Massabesic pond: July 12, 1861.--Yesterday, about 5 P. M., as a thunder shower was about leaving the pond, the water commenced rising from near the Island Pond House, and very soon it formed a spout estimated to be at least one thousand feet high. The spout was tunnel-shaped, tapering very gradually from the water surface, until reaching about eight hundred feet elevation, then it spread into the shape of an umbrella top, extending hundreds of feet in diameter, and, in contrast with the black clouds beyond, presented one of nature's most beautiful scenes. It remained stationary about ten minutes, and then moved towards Johnson's beach, where a picnic party were in the nick of time to get a ducking, see and feel the spouting. As it approached the beach, and while passing, it carried off all the boats along shore, and also twisted off branc