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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 29., The tornado of 1851. (search)
ses and barns were demolished. Others were unroofed, while chimney tops, windows, blinds and fences went like chaff before or with it. A freight car on the railroad siding was rolled along ten rods, then lifted from the track and landed sixty feet away, where now is Playstead road. Gleason's Pictorial of Boston, September 6, 1851, presented its artist's view, saying: The locality is at the east of the West Medford station. The dismantled house on the right was that occupied by Mr. Costello. The next across the road, the dwelling of Mr. Sanford, the depot master, which was moved twenty feet, crushing beneath it his son, a young man of 19 years, who was obliged to suffer amputation of both legs. The two-story house next to it was occupied by Mr. Nye, a carpenter. It was completely unroofed. In the second story Mrs. Nye and newly-born infant, injured by the wreck. In the extreme left is Captain Wyatt's house which was completely riddled. In one house there was pasted