...was on High street, corner of Allston, later that of his son-in-law, J. H. Norton. The schoolhouse on Canal street was utterly destroyed, its floor with the seats attached laid upside down across Whitmore brook . School was to have begun on the following Monday. The big Whitmore elm escaped with little injury, but a horse-chestnut at Warren street was so wrenched and twisted as to show the effect thirty ...